The survey, plan and system for the numbering
of houses and buildings, prepared by the Institute of Local and State
Government of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and dated
September 25, 1950, a copy of which is hereto attached and made a
part hereof, is hereby approved and adopted.
Following the effective date of this chapter,
the Township official charged with the responsibility of administering
this chapter, at such time as he deems such numbering required, shall
notify the owner or occupant of houses and buildings of the number
assigned and the period in which said owner or occupant shall have
for the erection of the number; provided, however, that such period
of time for the erection after notification shall not exceed 30 days.
Notification shall be deemed sufficient when put in writing and either
sent by registered mail to the owner or delivered to the house or
building to be numbered.
The Township Secretary shall be charged with
the responsibility of administering this chapter. He shall at all
times maintain an official Township House Numbering Map showing all
house numbers assigned. Said map shall be kept in the Township Building
of Whitemarsh Township and shall be open for examination to the residents
of the Township.
A subdivider or builder of properties or subdivision
shall submit a house numbering plan, prepared in accordance with the
official Township House Numbering Plan, to the Township Secretary
for approval thereof. When approved, house numbers shall be assigned
and the same erected by the subdivider or builder of the subdivision
in the same manner as herein provided for others within the Township.
[Amended 3-18-1982 by Ord. No. 425; 12-8-1988 by Ord. No.
565]
Any person or persons, firm or corporation who
shall number or attempt to number any house or building contrary to
this chapter and the plan hereby approved and adopted, or who shall
fail or neglect to number his house or building in accordance herewith,
or who shall fail to change the number thereon upon notification of
the Township Secretary, and any person or persons who shall alter,
deface, remove or destroy any number required to be displayed by this
chapter shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not to
exceed the maximum fine of $1,000, plus costs of prosecution, and,
in default of payment of such costs and prosecution, imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 30 days; provided, however, that if the District
Justice determines that the defendant is without the financial means
to pay the fines and costs immediately or in a single remittance,
such defendant shall be permitted to pay the fines or costs in installments
and over such periods of time as the District Justice deems to be
just.