[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of East Manchester as indicated in article histories.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-18-1991 by Ord. No. 12-18-91 (Ch. 82, Art. I, of the 1988 Code)]
There is hereby established a single Fire Hydrant
District within East Manchester Township (Township) which District
shall consist of the entire boundaries of the Township.
The Board of Supervisors of the Township shall
annually assess, by resolution, the cost and expense of such fire
protection service by an equal assessment of all property, whether
or not exempt from taxation by existing law, or whether or not developed
with improvements, within 780 feet of any fire hydrant approved by
the Township or its authorized representatives, including but not
limited to any fire protection officials so designated, based upon
the assessment for county purposes. No such assessment shall be levied
against any farmland or land used as an aviation field or against
other property in the district not benefited thereby. Such assessment
shall be collected by the Township Tax Collector in the same manner
as taxes. The Township Tax Collector shall receive the same commission
as on the Township tax.
The Township Treasurer shall receive all such
assessments collected for fire protection and keep the same in a separate
account and shall pay the same out only upon orders signed by the
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and attested by the Township
Secretary. The Township Treasurer shall make a report to the auditors
of the Township annually.
[Adopted 12-12-1995 by Ord. No. 12-12-95A (Ch. 82, Art. II, of the 1988 Code)]
There shall be created a Lighting District within
East Manchester Township consisting of the Orchard Business Park and
the streets abutting and within said park.
Electric streetlights shall be placed along
public streets within the Lighting District, as designated on subdivision
and land development plans as submitted and approved by the Board
of Supervisors from time to time, and such streets as shall be designated
from time to time by resolution. Said streetlights shall be within
the street right-of-way.
The Township Supervisors shall enter into a
contract with Met Ed, or its successors or assigns, to light and illuminate
said roads as set forth in § 196-5 with electric lighting.
The cost of said public streetlighting shall
be paid through an annual assessment made upon benefited properties
on a front-foot basis, in such amounts as shall be set from time to
time by the Township Supervisors by resolution. As used herein, the
term "benefited properties" shall mean any property which fronts on
a street or a portion of the street within the Lighting District on
which streetlighting is provided.
