[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Hazleton 11-16-1995 by Ord. No. 95-18 as Ch. 187 of the 1995 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A registry of the ownership of all real estate situate within the City liable to municipal taxation or assessments is hereby created and established in accordance with the provisions of 11 Pa.C.S.A. § 12704.
A. 
The City Engineer shall prepare the necessary books, maps and plans to register all real estate referred to in § 364-1 and maintain and keep the same in his office in accordance with the terms, conditions and provisions of 11 Pa.C.S.A. § 12704. The City Engineer may cause search to be made in any place for any monuments or evidence of title not reported to him as provided in this chapter and requisite for the completion of such books, maps or plans.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
B. 
The books, maps and plans required by this section shall be carefully preserved in the office of the City Engineer and shall be so kept by additions, from time to time, as to show the ownership of every lot or piece of real estate or subdivisions thereof, within the City limits, with the successive transmissions of title from the date of the commencement of such plans.
A. 
It shall be the duty of every purchaser, devisee or person acquiring title, by partition or otherwise, to any real estate within the City limits, within 30 days after acquiring such title, to furnish to the City Engineer, at his office, a description of such properties, upon blanks furnished by the City, and, at the same time, present his conveyance to be stamped by the City Engineer, without charge, as evidence of the registration thereof.
B. 
Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be liable to the penalties set forth in Chapter 1, Article II, Violations and Penalties, of this Code.
The recorder of deeds of Luzerne County shall not admit for record any deed for any City property unless the same has been duly stamped by the signature of the City Engineer as proof of registry in accord with this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
The City Engineer is hereby authorized to issue under his hand, to any person applying for the same, certified copies of any of the entries in the books or plans provided for in this chapter, upon payment to him of the fee set forth in the fee resolution adopted by resolution of the City Council, for the use of the City, for each and every certificate so issued.