[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Nanticoke 3-20-1934 by Ord. No.
130 (Ch. 24, Part 8, of the 2004 Code of Ordinances).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
A registry of the ownership of all real estate situate within
the City of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, liable to municipal taxation
or assessments be and the same is hereby created and established in
accordance with the provisions of Article 16 of Act of Assembly, approved
June 27, A.D., 1913,[1] and government of cities of the third class, regulating
nomination and election of municipal officers therein, and repealing,
consolidating and extending existing laws in relation thereto.
[1]
Editor's Note: See now 53 P.S. § 36515 et seq.
The City Engineer is hereby authorized to prepare the necessary
books and papers to register all such real estate and maintain and
keep the same in his office in accordance with the terms, conditions
and provisions of said Act of Assembly.
The City Engineer may also cause search to be made for evidence
of title not reported to him, as required for the completion of such
plans.
Said books of plans and other papers shall be carefully preserved
by said City Engineer and shall be so kept by additions from time
to time as to show the ownership of each lot or piece of real estate
or subdivision thereof within the City limits with the successive
transmissions of title from the date of the commencement of such plans.
[Amended 12-1-2004 by Ord. No. 16-2004]
It shall be the duty of all owners of unregistered real estate
within the City limits, within four months of the approval of this
chapter, and of every subsequent purchaser, devisee or person acquiring
title by partition or otherwise to any real estate therein, within
one month after acquiring such title, to furnish to the City Engineer,
at his office, a description of their respective properties upon blanks
furnished by the City and at the same time present their conveyances
to be stamped by said City Engineer, without charge, as evidence of
the registration thereof. Any person or persons neglecting or refusing
to comply with the provisions of this section for a period of four
months after public notice of the requirements thereof, upon conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to a fine of not more than $1,000 plus
costs or to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days, or both.
The Sheriff of Luzerne County shall present for registry the
deeds of all properties within the City limits sold by him at judicial
sales, whether in partition or otherwise, and the Prothonotary and
Recorder of Deeds thereof shall not admit for record any deed for
any City property bearing a date subsequent to the approval of this
chapter for the establishment of such registry unless the same shall
first have been duly stamped by the signature of the City Engineer
as proof of registry. Any prothonotary or recorder who shall record
any deed before the provisions of the Act of June 27, 1913, and this
chapter shall have been complied with shall be liable to a penalty
of $5 for each deed recorded in violation hereof, as provided by Article
16, § 8, of the Act of June 27, 1913.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See now 53 P.S. § 36520.
[Amended 12-1-2004 by Ord. No. 16-2004]
The City Engineer is hereby authorized to issue under his hand,
to any person applying for the same, certified copies of any of the
entries in said books of plans upon the payment to him of a sum in
an amount as established from time to time by resolution of City Council
for use of the City of Nanticoke for each and every certificate issued
as aforesaid.
