[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Willistown 10-9-1984 by Ord. No. 4-1984.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall apply to each separate tract, lot or parcel of land
within the Township of Willistown and each principal building on any such
tract, lot or parcel.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Any structure on the same lot with a principal building and of a
nature and use for purpose customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal
building thereon.
Any structure enclosing space or otherwise used in any manner for
residential, commercial, industrial or storage use or for any other purposes,
other than an accessory building as defined herein.
Street address numbers shall be assigned to each tract, lot or parcel
of land by the Building Official or his designated representative and placed
on file in the township office. Thereafter, such property shall be designated
for all purposes by the number assigned, and all persons shall take due notice
thereof and comply with the provisions of this chapter, when applicable. The
Board of Supervisors shall have the right and power to change a street address
number or numbers assigned to any property whenever it may deem such a change
necessary and desirable and require the owner or occupant thereof to comply
with the provisions of this chapter with respect to such change.
The owner or occupant of each tract, lot or parcel of land to which
no street address has been previously assigned shall, upon purchase, acquisition
or occupancy thereof, or within seven days of discovery that no such number
has been assigned, make application to the Township Building Official, or
his designated representative, for assignment of a street address number,
and the Township Building Official shall thereupon assign a correct street
address number to the property.
The Township Building Official shall be responsible for assigning proper
street address number sequences to each lot which is created as the result
of a subdivision, which numbers shall be in relation to the numbers assigned
to other lots fronting on the same street, and shall be properly recorded
on the subdivision plan and township file.
In order to comply with this chapter, street address numbers shall be
Arabic in design, shall have a minimum height of three inches and shall be
mounted in a secure fashion to the principal building's front wall or
to a porch or other fixed appurtenance in front of the principal building
in the general vicinity of the main entryway or main path of travel which
leads to the main entrance from a public or private street, or otherwise separately
mounted in an approved manner upon the face or wall or upon a post or mailbox
in the front yard of the premises. The numbers shall be sufficiently legible
as to contrasting background, arrangement, spacing, size and uniformity of
integers so that the numbers may be read during daylight hours by a person
possessing normal vision if the numbers are viewed from the center line of
the facing street. The numbers shall be so placed that trees, shrubs and other
obstructions do not block the line of sight of the numbers from the center
of the street.
From and after the effective date of this chapter, the owner and occupant
and each of them of each tract, lot or parcel of land shall continuously display
the street address number assigned to that tract, lot or parcel in accordance
with the specifications set forth above and so as not to be a violation of
this chapter as set forth below.
A.Â
The absence of street numbers or the insecure fastening
or absence of any parts thereof, or the use of any street address number not
assigned by the township building official, or the failure of a street address
number to meet the elevation requirement or the visibility requirements shall
be a violation of this chapter. Upon discovery of such violation, a warning
notice of violation may be sent by certified mail to the property owner or
occupant or may be served personally on the property owner or occupant, or
his agent, or may be posted in a prominent place upon the property by the
Township Building Official, his agent or the township police. Such notice
shall state the specific provision of the chapter violated and shall require
compliance with the provisions of this chapter within 15 days from the date
of service or posting of the warning notice of violation.
B.Â
Any person who shall fail to correct the violation set
forth in the warning notice of violation and who shall be convicted of a violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $300, together with the costs of prosecution, or, in the
default of payment thereof, to imprisonment in the county jail for a term
not to exceed 30 days, in the discretion of the Justice before whom the conviction
is obtained.
[Amended 6-10-1986 by Ord. No. 5-1986]
C.Â
Each day that a violation of this chapter
continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense, and the owner and occupant,
and either of them, of the tract, lot or parcel of land in violation shall
be subject to the penalty imposed by this section for each and every day such
violation continues.
