As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
CHIEF
The York Area United Fire and Rescue Fire Chief.
[Amended 6-8-2011 by Ord.
No. 2011-07]
OWNER
The person or persons or entity holding a deed or sales agreement
designating them as grantee or vendee in the event of ownership by
sales agreement; both vendor and vendee shall be deemed joint owners.
RESIDENTIAL UNIT
Any building or structure designed for single or multifamily
use and which includes trailers or mobile homes which are utilized
for use as living and sleeping areas, and for which rent or rental
equivalent is charged by any person, but shall include any convalescent
home, school or college or indoor sleeping place for students, employees
or guests or patients of such school, college or convalescent home,
whether or not rent or rental equivalent is charged therefor. It shall
also mean all new buildings erected in this Township after the enactment
hereof January 8, 1978, that are intended for residential use.
RESIDENTIAL USE
A building or structure of any type, including trailers or
mobile homes or any building of any type or sort, wholly or partly,
which provides an area used as a bedroom or for a sleeping area used
by human beings.
SMOKE DETECTOR
A commercial device capable of providing an audible alert
when sensing visible or invisible particles or gases of combustion.
[Amended 5-11-1988 by Ord. No. 224; 12-14-1994 by Ord. No. 94-5]
Any person who should violate any of the provisions of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding, be
sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment
for not more than 30 days, provided that each violation of any provision
of this article, and each day the same is continued shall be deemed
a separate offense. In addition, said fines and penalties may be collected
by suit brought in the name of the Township before any Magisterial
District Judge in like manner as debts of like amount may be sued
for by existing laws and to remit such fines and penalties.
In the event it shall appear that any person is permitting the
use of a residential unit without smoke detectors as required hereunder,
the said residential unit is hereby declared to be a nuisance and,
upon the request of the Fire Chief, the Solicitor of the Township
may, if he deems it appropriate, initiate the necessary legal proceedings
to abate the unsafe condition which is declared a nuisance hereunder.