[Ord. 56, 9/11/1989, § 101]
For purposes of this Part, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
A building the entire use of which is customarily incidental and subordinate to that of the principal building and which is located on the same lot as the principal building.
BUILDING
Any man-made structure which is permanently located on the land and used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy. "Building" shall not include any accessory building located upon a lot where there is also a principal building.
PERSON
A natural person, corporation, partnership, and association.
PLACE
With respect to the placement of numbers required under this Part, shall mean affix to, paint upon or carve into.
POSTAL NUMBERING SYSTEM
The postal numbering system data base and related grid maps and other materials, prepared by COMPUDRAFT, Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, as such data base and related maps and other materials shall be maintained in accordance with this Part, with all amendments and supplements thereto, as shall be in effect at the time of application under this Part.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING
A building in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which the building is located.
STREET
A public (dedicated) or private right-of-way serving as a means of vehicular and pedestrian travel and furnishing access to more than one lot. "Street" includes thoroughfare, avenue, boulevard, court, drive, expressway, highway, lane, alley, service street, marginal access street, road and similar terms.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of East Coventry, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
[Ord. 56, 9/11/1989, § 102]
The postal numbering system is hereby approved and adopted as the system for the numbering of buildings in the Township and for the assignment and reassignment from time to time, of numbers to such buildings under this Part. The postal numbering system shall be maintained current by the Township Secretary by the addition of new buildings as constructed.
[Ord. 56, 9/11/1989, § 103]
The Township Secretary shall notify, in writing, the owner of every building in the Township of the number or new number assigned or reassigned, from time to time, to the building in accordance with the postal numbering system. Within the ninety-day period immediately following the date of the notice, the owner shall cause the assigned or reassigned number to be placed as required by this Part. Owners, lessees, and occupants of a building, the principal use of which is a place of worship, shall not be required to comply, for and during the time that such principal use continues, with the number placement and maintenance requirements set forth in this section and in other provisions of this Part.
[Ord. 56, 9/11/1989, § 104]
The number or new numbers assigned or reassigned to a building under this Part shall be placed and thereafter constantly maintained in accordance with the following requirements:
1. 
The number shall be placed upon the front of the building or upon a permanent standard, base or support between the building and the street upon which the building fronts. The number shall also be placed upon any mailbox serving the building.
2. 
Each digit of the number shall be at least three inches high, shall be of a color in contrast to its immediate background, shall be legible, and shall be visible from the opposite side of the street upon which the building fronts.
[Ord. 56, 9/11/1989, § 105]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this Part shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine not exceeding $600 and costs of prosecution, and/or to imprisonment in the Chester County jail for a period not exceeding 30 days. Each thirty-day period that a violation of any provision of this Part continues shall constitute a separate offense.