This chapter shall be known as "Residential Rental Property
Licensing and Registration."
The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the licensing and
registration of residential rental units in East Norriton Township.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
APARTMENT
A permanent dwelling unit within a building containing three
or more dwelling units (also known as "apartment house"), each for
a single family living independent of one another, and being vertically
arranged, sharing outside access, and having one or more walls as
well as a ceiling or floor in common with another dwelling unit.
DWELLING
A building designed for and occupied exclusively for residential
purposes, excluding hotels, rooming houses, tourist homes, motels
and the like, but including the following:
A.
SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGA building designed for and occupied exclusively as a dwelling for one family, including a mobile home.
B.
TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGA building designed for and occupied exclusively as a dwelling for two families (also known as a "duplex").
C.
MULTIFAMILY DWELLINGA building designed for and occupied exclusively for dwelling purposes by three or more families living independently of one another; not a townhouse, but customarily called an "apartment house."
DWELLING UNIT
A building, or portion thereof, providing complete housekeeping
facilities for one family, including living, sleeping, cooking, eating,
and sanitary facilities.
PERSON(S)
A natural person, heir, executor, administrator or assign,
and includes a firm, partnership or corporation, or limited liability
corporation, its successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the
aforesaid.
PROPERTY MANAGER
A natural person, partnership, corporation, unincorporated
association, limited partnership, or any other entity, appointed by
a landlord or property owner to maintain a residential rental unit
or units, and whose duty it is to ensure that a residential unit or
units complies with all statutes and ordinances of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and East Norriton Township.
PROPERTY OWNER
Any person who, either alone, or jointly or severally with
others, has legal title to any residential rental unit, with or without
accompanying actual possession thereof, or who has charge, care, or
control of any residential rental unit as an owner or agent of the
owner, or as executor, executrix, administrator, administratrix, trustee,
or guardian of the estate of the property owner. Any such person thus
representing the actual property owner shall be bound to comply with
the provisions of this chapter, and to the rules and regulations adopted
pursuant thereto, to the same extent as if he/she were the property
owner.
RESIDENTIAL RENTAL UNIT
A room or group of rooms for one or more persons with independent
living facilities, providing for living, sleeping, cooking and sanitary
facilities that are not occupied by the property owner, including
but not limited to single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings,
multifamily dwellings, apartments, boardinghouses, and tourist homes.
TOWNSHIP
East Norriton Township, Pennsylvania.
Any property owner who fails to comply with the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon summary conviction therefor before a District
Justice within the magisterial district within which the Township
is located, be fined not more than $1,000 plus costs of prosecution
and reasonable attorney's fees, after a summary proceeding brought
in the name of the Township before said District Justice. A new and
separate offense shall be deemed to be committed for each day that
such violation exists. In default of the payment of any fine imposed
and the costs, the person or persons that are charged may be sentenced
to be committed to the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.
Every owner of a residential rental unit shall also comply with the relevant provisions contained in Chapter
152, Chapter
190, and all other relevant chapters of the Code of East Norriton Township.