[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough Sellersville 2-1-1937 by Ord. No.
126. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There be and hereby is established a real estate registry for
the Borough of Sellersville, County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania,
and the Manager/Secretary of said Borough shall, under the direction
of the Council, cause to be made all necessary books, maps and plans
as will show the situation and dimensions of each property thereon,
which books, maps or plans shall be so prepared as to show the location
and the name of the owner or owners thereof, with blank spaces for
the name of the owner of each lot and with provision for the names
of future owners and the dates of future transfers of title.
For the purpose of establishing such a registry, the Borough
Manager/Secretary shall have access without charge to any public records
wherein the necessary information may be obtainable and may also cause
a search to be made in other places for any muniments or evidences
of title not reported to him as herein provided and requisite for
the completion of such books, maps or plans.
Said books, maps and plans shall be carefully preserved and
shall be so kept, by additions from time to time, as to show the ownership
of every lot or piece of real estate or subdivision thereof within
the limits of said Borough with the succeeding transmissions of title
from the time of the commencement of such plans; but nothing contained
therein shall at any time invalidate any municipal or tax claim by
reason of the fact that the same is not assessed or levied against
the registered owner.
A.
It shall be the duty of all the owners of real estate within the
limits of said Borough, within one month after the date of the approval
of any ordinance establishing such registry, 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 Manager/Secretary, at his office, descriptions of their respective
properties upon blanks to be furnished by said Borough and at the
same time to present their conveyances to be stamped as evidence of
the registry thereof.
B.
This section shall be enforced by a criminal action in the same manner
provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure. A person convicted of violating this
section shall be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed $1,000 per
violation, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred
by the Borough of Sellersville, or to imprisonment for not more than
90 days, or both. Violations of more than one provision of this section
shall constitute separate violations. Each day that a violation of
any provision of this section continues or occurs shall constitute
a separate violation.
[Amended 7-7-1997 by Ord. No. 604; 10-12-2015 by Ord. No. 703]
[Amended 7-7-1997 by Ord. No. 604]
The Sheriff of Bucks County shall present for the registry the
deeds of all properties within said Borough sold by him at judicial
sales; and the Recorder of Deeds of Bucks County shall not admit for
record any deed of any property in said Borough bearing dates subsequent
to the approval of any ordinance providing for the establishment of
such registry unless the same shall first have been duly stamped as
herein provided.
