[Ord. 04-13, 10/14/2004, § 1; as amended by Ord.
07-17, 11/8/2007, § 1; and by Ord. No. 22-03, 7/14/2022]
The Township of Susquehanna hereby adopts and enacts the 2021
International Property Maintenance Code regulating and governing the
condition and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures
existing in the Township of Susquehanna by providing standards for
supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions
essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for
occupation and use; and the condemnation of buildings and structures
unfit for human occupation and use and the demolition of such existing
structures as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits
and collection of fees therefor; and each and all regulations, provisions,
penalties, conditions and terms of said Property Maintenance Code.
[Ord. 04-13, 10/14/2004, § 2; as amended by Ord.
11-15, 12/8/2011]
1.
The following sections are revised:
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Section 103.5. Fees for activities of services performed in
carrying out responsibility under the International Property Maintenance
Code shall be set forth in the fee resolution adopted from time to
time by the Board of Commissioners of Susquehanna Township.
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Section 304.14. During the period from October 15 to May 1,
every door, window and other outside opening required for ventilation
of habitable rooms, food preparation areas, food service areas or
any areas where products to be included or utilized in food for human
consumption are processed, manufactured, packaged or stored shall
be supplied with approved tightly fitting screens of not less than
16 mesh per inch (16 mesh per 25 mm), and every swinging door shall
have a self-closing device in good working condition.
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Section 602.3. Every owner and operator of every building who
rents, leases or lets one or more dwelling unit, rooming unit, dormitory
or guest room on terms, either expressed or implied, to furnish heat
to occupants thereof shall supply heat during the period from October
15 to May 1 to maintain a temperature of not less than 68° F.
(20° C.) in all habitable rooms, bathrooms, and toilet rooms.
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Section 602.4. Indoor occupiable work spaces shall be supplied
with heat during the period from October 15 to May 1 to maintain a
temperature of not less than 65° F. (18° C.) during the period
the spaces are occupied.
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2.
The following sections are added:
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Section 302.10. No vegetation, bushes or plants shall overhang,
extend or grow from one property across the boundary line to another
property without the written consent of the owner of the property
onto which the vegetation extends, except for branches of trees more
than 14 feet in height above the ground. If the Township determines
that vegetation, other than trees exempted hereunder, overhangs or
extends from one property across the boundary line onto or above another
without the written consent of the owner of the property onto which
such vegetation extends or overhangs, the owner of the property from
which the vegetation emanates shall be given written notice that,
failing to remedy the situation within a period of time specified
by the Township, which period of time shall not be less than 10 days,
the same shall be a violation hereof and the Township may cite the
resident for the violation thereof with penalties as existing for
any violation of the Property Maintenance Code.
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[Ord. 09-10, 11/12/2009; amended by Ord. No. 22-03, 7/14/2022]
The Township of Susquehanna may, by resolution of the Board
of Commissioners, adopt the most recently published edition of the
Property Maintenance Code, as amended and republished from time to
time. As new editions of the International Property Maintenance Code
are adopted and published, the same shall become effective at Susquehanna
Township 30 days after the Township shall advertise and publish in
a newspaper of general circulation the adoption of the same.
