[Adopted 8-1-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-4 (Ch. 11, Part 2, of the 2006 codification)]
The Borough of Prospect recognizes a need for registration of
residential units within the Borough in order to ensure appropriate
identification of adult residents of the Borough for registration
and taxation purposes. The Borough recognizes that the most efficient
system to provide for the registration of all adult residential leasehold
tenants and other adult household occupants is to require the landlord
to file periodic notices with the Borough identifying its residential
lessees and any other individuals residing in the same household.
The following words and phrases, when used in this article,
shall have the meanings given to them in this section:
Borough of Prospect, Butler County, Pennsylvania (Borough
Office: 159 Monroe Street, Prospect, Pennsylvania 16052).
Any person, partnership, corporation and/or similarly organized
entity which either owns and/or manages any residential leasehold
units and/or properties located in Prospect Borough.
Specifically includes, but is not limited to, all apartment
units, housing units, duplexes, cabins, entire homes, boardinghouses,
shelters, hunting camps, campgrounds and lot rentals utilized for
the location of mobile and/or manufactured homes thereon.
No residential landlord shall hereafter occupy, allow to be
occupied or let to another person for occupancy any residential leasehold
unit and/or property situate within the Borough of Prospect unless
said residential landlord notifies the Borough, in writing, within
30 days after occupancy, of the name, address and number of person(s)
occupying each specific residential leasehold unit and/or property.
The written registration shall contain the following minimum information:
A.
The name, address and telephone
number of the property owner;
B.
The name, address and telephone
number of the designated local property manager, if the owner lives
outside the Borough and has a property manager;
C.
The street address of the residential
leasehold unit and/or property; and
D.
The name, address and place of
employment of all tenant(s) and all other occupants of the unit who
are 18 years of age or older or who are otherwise employed.
The written registration for each residential leasehold unit
and/or property shall be filed with the Borough at the Prospect Borough
Office by January 31 of each calendar year and then throughout the
year whenever there is a change of residential lessees and household
occupants as set forth above. All written registrations required by
this article shall be forwarded to the Borough within 60 days after
enactment hereof for the first year. Landlord registration forms are
available at the Prospect Borough Office during regular business hours.
No fee shall be charged for submission of said written agreement.
[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 being found liable therefor, pay a fine of not more than
$600, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by
the Borough in the enforcement proceedings. If the penalty is not
paid, the Borough shall initiate a civil action for collection in
accordance with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. Each day
a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and each section
of this article that is violated shall also constitute a separate
offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement under this section,
the Borough may enforce this article in equity in the Court of Common
Pleas of Butler County.
