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:
ACCESSORY BUILDING 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.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING 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.