[Adopted 9-3-2013 by Ord.
No. 103]
The Township of Nottingham recognizes a need for registration
of residential units within the Township in order to ensure appropriate
identity of various residents of the Township for registration and
taxation purposes. The Township recognizes that the most efficient
system to provide for these rental occupant's registration is to require
the landlord to file periodic notices with the Township identifying
its residential lessees.
No person shall hereafter occupy, allow to be occupied or let
to another person for occupancy any residential rental unit within
the Township of Nottingham unless said landlord/lessor notifies the
Township within 30 days after said occupancy the name, address and
number of person(s) occupying each specific unit. The registration
shall contain the following minimum information:
A. Name, address and telephone number of the property owner;
B. Name address and telephone number of the designated local property
manager, if the property owner lives outside the Township and has
a property manager;
C. The street address of the rental property; and
D. The number of occupants and names of the individuals occupying said
unit.
A registration for each residential unit shall be filed by January
30 of each calendar year and then throughout the year whenever there
is a change of occupants as set forth above. All registrations under
this article shall be forwarded to the Township within 60 days after
enactment hereof for the first year.
The Township Secretary shall maintain a record of all reported
rental properties and occupants thereof.
The Township Zoning Officer shall investigate all reported or
suspected violations of this article.
No fee shall be charged for this registration.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.
The remedies provided herein for the enforcement of this article,
or any remedy provided by law, shall not be deemed mutually exclusive;
rather, they may be employed simultaneously or consecutively, at the
option of the Nottingham Township Board of Supervisors.
If any sentence(s), clause(s), section(s), or part(s) of this article
is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid,
such unconstitutionality, illegality, or invalidity shall not affect
or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections
or parts of this article. It is declared the intent of the Nottingham
Township Board of Supervisors that this article would have been adopted
had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentences, clauses,
sections, or parts thereof not be included herein.