[Amended 6-4-2001 by Ord. No. 455]
The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have,
unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them
in this section:
LANDLORD RATE PAYER
One or more individuals or an organization listed on the borough
records as the party responsible for the payment of water, sewerage or electrical
service provided to one or more residential units or commercial units of a
multiple-unit building, of which building such party is not the sole occupant.
MULTIPLE UNIT
A building containing one or more commercial units and/or one or
more dwelling units occupied by one or more tenants but excluding nursing
homes, homes for the aged, hotels and motels and college fraternity or sorority
houses.
TENANT
Any person or group of persons whose commercial unit or whose dwelling
unit in a multiple unit is provided water, sewage services and/or electricity
pursuant to a rental arrangement for such unit, whether or not a separate
charge is made therefor, but who is not the rate payer or the party responsible
for the payment to the borough for the water, sewage services or electricity
supplied to the unit.
[Amended 6-4-2001 by Ord. No. 455]
Every landlord rate payer shall supply to the Borough Office the names
and addresses of every tenant in every multiple-unit building of the landlord
rate payer located within the Borough of New Wilmington. Such information
shall be supplied to the borough no later than December 15 of each year and
shall be current to December 1 of the year filed. In addition to the annual
filings on December 15, the landlord rate payer shall file such supplemental
filings as may be necessary to keep the borough files current and up to date
should there be a change in the tenants and the landlord rate payer's
multiple-unit building between the annual filings. Such supplemental filings
shall be made within 15 days of any tenant's leaving or entering occupancy
in the building.
[Amended 1-3-2000 by Ord. No. 442]
Any landlord rate payer failing to comply with the terms of this chapter,
upon conviction thereof before the District Justice, shall be punishable by
a fine not exceeding $600, plus costs of prosecution for each offense, for
each day's violation hereof. In addition, subsequent to conviction before
the District Justice, the Borough Council, after a public hearing, may require
the landlord rate payer to provide separate metering facilities for water
and/or electrical services to tenants.