[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Jersey Shore 9-4-1947 by Ord. No. 466 (Ch.
1, Part 8, of the 1996 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Rental property — See Ch. 231.
For the purpose of procuring accurate information
with reference to the ownership of real estate within the Borough
of Jersey Shore, County of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, the
registration of the ownership of such real estate is hereby ordered
and required.
The Borough Secretary shall, under the direction
of Council, cause to be made all necessary books, maps and plans which
will show such information as Council shall order and direct, such
as location, description and dimensions of each property or lot within
said Borough, the name or names of the owners thereof, the source
and date of acquisition of title, deed book and page at which recorded,
etc., with provision for the names of future owners and the dates
of future transfers of title.
Such books, maps and plans shall be under the
control of the Borough Secretary and kept in his office in the Borough
Hall and they shall be carefully preserved and shall be so kept, by
addition from time to time, as to show the ownership of every lot
or piece of real estate or subdivision thereof within the limits of
the Borough of Jersey Shore, with the succeeding transmissions of
title from the time of the commencement of such registration.
It shall be the duty of all owners of real estate
within the limits of the Borough of Jersey Shore, within one month
after the date of the approval of this chapter and of every subsequent
purchaser, devisee or person, within one month after acquiring title
in any manner whatsoever to any real estate in said Borough, to furnish
to the Borough Secretary at his office descriptions of their respective
properties upon blanks to be furnished by the Borough and at the same
time to present their conveyances to be stamped as evidence of the
registry thereof.
The Borough Secretary shall procure a proper
stamp for certifying the fact of registration of ownership, and stamp
therewith all real estate conveyances registered in his office as
hereinbefore provided.
The Sheriff of Lycoming County shall present
for registry the deeds of all properties within the Borough of Jersey
Shore sold by him at judicial sales and the Recorder of Deeds of Lycoming
County shall not admit for record any deed of any property within
said Borough bearing a date subsequent to the approval of this chapter
unless such deed shall first have been duly stamped as herein provided.
[Amended 9-8-1992 by Ord. No. 10-92; 5-6-1996 by Ord. No.
4-96]
Any person who shall violate any provision of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a
fine not exceeding $600 and costs and, in default of payment thereof,
shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
