[Adopted 5-13-1991 by Ord. No. 136]
This article shall be known as the "Building Numbering Ordinance."
The Board of Supervisors finds that the police, ambulance and
fire services have had difficulty locating addresses of homes and
businesses on Township streets and roads due to the lack of lot and
building identification numbers. It is, therefor, the purpose of this
article to establish a system of numbering all lots on which there
is located a dwelling unit or business so that police, ambulance and
fire services can locate addresses in emergencies.
This article is authorized by Section 1520 of the Second Class
Township Code, 53 P.S. § 66520.
From and after the effective date of this article, it shall
be the duty of each owner of property to cause each lot or parcel
and each dwelling unit and each business upon each lot or parcel to
be numbered in accordance with this article.
The Zoning Officer shall be responsible for assigning numbers
to dwellings and businesses and each occupied lot or parcel. Any owner
of property on which there exists a dwelling unit or business which
does not presently have a number assigned to it shall apply to the
Zoning Officer for assignment of a number.
The Zoning Officer shall have the power and authority to change
numbers for the purpose of the orderly numbering of addresses. The
Zoning Officer shall change the number of a dwelling or business by
sending a notice to the owner notifying the owner of the new number
assigned by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal
service, or by posting the notice on the property. The owner of property
receiving such notice shall cause the numbers to be changed within
30 days of receipt or posting of such notice by the Zoning Officer.
The numbers shall be Arabic numbers and shall be of durable
materials. Each digit shall be at least four inches in height. The
colors shall be in contrast with the immediate background so as to
be easily readable.
Numbers shall be located and placed so as to clearly identify
the structure containing each dwelling unit or business in accordance
with the following regulations:
A.
The numbers shall be placed in a conspicuous place so as to clearly
identify the location of the dwelling unit or business.
B.
The placement of the numbers must be such that the numbers can be
seen and read from the sidewalk (if any) in front of said dwelling
unit or business, from the traveled portion of the street, and from
the opposite side of the street.
C.
The number may be placed upon the structure containing the dwelling
unit or business or upon the mailbox or upon a fence, wall, post,
rod or other type of fixture of substantial nature such that the number
shall clearly indicate the location of the dwelling unit or business
in accordance with the requirements of this section.
It shall be unlawful to cover or conceal or to permit the sight
obstruction of the numbers required to be displayed by this article.
It shall further be unlawful to post other numbers which would be
confusing. All old numbers shall be removed when a new number has
been assigned by the Zoning Officer in accordance with this article.
The following definitions shall apply to this article:
A building or portion of a building designed and occupied
by a nonresidential, commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental
or other nonresidential use.
A building or portion of a building designed to be occupied
by one family for human living quarters.
Includes the following:
The following buildings and uses shall be exempt from the requirements
of this article:
A.
Farm buildings and structures which are accessory to a farm use,
except that buildings used for the retail sale of products grown on
the farm and farm residences shall be numbered.
B.
Home occupations.
C.
Buildings, structures and uses accessory to the primary use of a
commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental or other nonresidential
use or structure.
D.
Unoccupied farmland or lots containing no dwellings or businesses.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this article, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus costs,
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues
or each section of this article which shall be found to have been
violated shall constitute a separate offense.
