[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of West Nantmeal
Township 12-11-1995 by Ord. No.
55. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all principal
buildings within the Township of West Nantmeal and to each tract,
lot or parcel of land.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings as indicated in this section:
A subordinate building, the use of which is customarily incidental
to that of the principal building and is used for an accessory use
and is located on the same lot.
Any building or structure erected on a tract, lot or parcel
of land on which any use is carried out, except an accessory building.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway, parkway,
lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended to be used
by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or private.
A.
Street address numbers shall be assigned to each tract, lot or parcel
of land, placed on file in the Township office and assigned to the
owners or occupants of such tract, lot or parcel of land by the Township
Secretary or by such other person as may be designated by resolution
of the Board of Supervisors. Such property shall thereafter be designated
for all purposes by the number assigned and, thereafter, all persons
shall take due notice thereof and comply with the provisions of this
chapter, when applicable.
B.
The Township Secretary or such other person as may be designated
shall have the power and duty of correcting any errors with respect
to assignment of street address numbers, as and when such errors are
discovered. The Board of Supervisors shall have the right and power
to change a street address number or numbers assigned to any property
whenever it may deem such a change necessary and desirable and to
require the owner or occupant thereof to comply with the provisions
of this chapter with respect to such change.
The owner or occupant of each tract, lot or parcel of land to
which no street address number has been previously assigned shall,
upon purchase, acquisition or occupancy thereof, or within seven days
of discovery that no such number has been assigned, make application
to the Township Secretary or her designated agent for assignment of
such number, and thereupon the Township Secretary shall assign a correct
street address number to the property.
The Township Secretary shall be responsible for assigning proper
street address number sequences to each lot which is created as the
result of a subdivision or resubdivision. Said number shall be in
proper municipal sequence in relation to the numbers assigned to other
lots fronting on the same street and shall be properly recorded on
the subdivision plan and the Township file.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
In order to comply with this chapter, street address numbers
shall be Arabic numerals or alphabet letters, a minimum of four inches
high, with a minimum stroke width of 0.5 inch and of contrasting color
and shall be mounted in a secure fashion to the principal building's
front wall or to a porch or other fixed appurtenance in front of the
principal building in the general vicinity of the main entryway or
main path of travel which leads to the main entrance from a public
street, or otherwise separately mounted in an approved manner upon
the face or wall or upon a post or mailbox in the front yard of the
premises. Where access is by means of a private road and the building
cannot be viewed from the public way, a monument, pole or other sign
or means shall be used to identify the structure. Auxiliary numbers
shall be mounted at a height between four feet and 10 feet upon the
adjacent grade or exterior landing beneath, but never higher than
15 feet above the adjoining grade. They shall be sufficiently legible
as to contrasting background, arrangement, spacing, size and uniformity
of integers so that the numbers may be read with ease during daylight
hours by a person possessing normal vision if he views the numbers
from the center line of the facing street. The numbers shall be so
placed that trees, shrubs and other obstructions do not block the
line of sight of the numbers from the center of the street to any
appreciable degree.
A.
The absence of street numbers or the insecure fastening or absence
of any integers thereof or the use of any street address number not
assigned by the Township Secretary or the failure of a street address
number to meet the elevation requirement or the visibility requirements
shall be a violation of this chapter. Upon discovery of such violation,
a notice of violation shall be sent by certified mail to the property
owner or occupant or shall be served personally on the property owner
or occupant or his agent or shall be posted in a prominent place upon
the property by the Township Secretary, his agent or the Township
police. Such notice shall specify the specific provision of this chapter
violated and shall require compliance with the provisions of this
chapter within 15 days from the date of service or posting of the
notice of violation.
B.
Violation and enforcement provision. Any person who violates or permits
the violation of any provision of this chapter shall, upon being found
liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the
Township before a Magisterial District Judge, pay a fine for each
such violation in an amount not more than $600, plus all court costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred by the Township. No
judgment shall be imposed until the date of the determination of a
violation by the Magisterial District Judge. If the defendant neither
pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the Township may enforce the
judgment pursuant to the applicable Rules of Civil Procedure.
[Amended 8-12-1996 by Ord. No. 59; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch.
1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
C.
Every violator of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed
guilty of a separate offense for each and every day such violation
shall continue and shall be subject to the penalty imposed by this
section for each and every such offense.
The final authority for determining and assigning the street number or numbers to be used upon any particular property, as well as the enforcement of this chapter, shall be in the office of the Township Secretary, her agent or such other person as provided for in § 60-3 of this chapter.
