A. 
Map elements. The Official Map, as enacted and as subsequently amended, may show appropriate elements or portions of elements of the Elanco Region Comprehensive Plan, the Elanco Recreation, Park, and Open Space Plan, and any other plan or study of the Township with regard to public lands and facilities, and may include, but need not be limited to:
(1) 
Existing and proposed public streets, watercourses and public grounds, including widening, narrowing, extensions, diminutions, openings or closing of same.
(2) 
Existing and proposed public parks, playgrounds, and open space reservations.
(3) 
Conservation easements.
(4) 
Pedestrian ways and easements.
(5) 
Railroad rights-of-way and easements.
(6) 
Flood hazard areas, floodways and one-hundred- and five-hundred-year flood zones.
(7) 
Support facilities, easements and other properties held by public bodies undertaking the elements of Township plans and studies.
B. 
Identification and acquisition. For the purposes of initially identifying land on the Official Map, property records, aerial photography, photogram metric mapping or other method sufficient for the identification, description and publication of areas for reservation on the Official Map will be sufficient. For the acquisition of lands and easements, boundary descriptions by metes and bounds shall be made and sealed by a licensed surveyor, registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
C. 
Additions or modifications. The Board of Supervisors, by amending this chapter, may make additions or modifications to the Official Map or parts thereto by following the provisions included in § 281-5A and may by ordinance also vacate any existing or proposed public street, watercourse or public ground, or part thereof, contained in the Official Map.
D. 
Street design requirements. Unless otherwise specified, on the Official Map or within other controlling chapter provisions, all proposed public street rights-of-way and widening of existing public street rights-of-way shall meet the design requirements specified in the East Earl Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance[1] for the highway functional classification as designated by the Township Official Map, the Elanco Region Comprehensive Plan, or other applicable study or plan.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 380, Subdivision Land Development.
The Official Map, as signed and dated by the Board of Supervisors and including all notations, references, and other data shown thereon, is hereby incorporated by reference into this chapter as if it were fully described herein.
A. 
Certification of the Official Map. The Official Map shall be identified by the signatures of the Board of Supervisors, attested by the East Earl Township Secretary, under the following words: This is to certify that this is the Official Map of East Earl Township referred to in the Official Map Ordinance of East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, together with the date of enactment of this chapter. The Official Map shall be kept on file with the East Earl Township Secretary.
B. 
Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. The Official Map and Official Map Ordinance have been adopted pursuant to the provisions provided in § 10402 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.
C. 
Changes in the Official Map. If, in accord with the provisions of this chapter, changes are made to the location of lines designating existing or proposed public streets, watercourses, or public grounds or easements, such changes shall be entered promptly on said Map. All changes, except those resulting from subdivision and land development plans as specified in § 281-14 shall be certified by initialing of the Map by the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors together with the amending ordinance number and date of enactment, or by the republication of the Official Map and certification in accord with § 281-6A.
If the Official Map shows any street or other public land intended to lead into any adjacent municipality, a certified copy of the Official Map, or amendment thereto, shall be forwarded to such adjacent municipality in accord with § 10408 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.