City of New Castle, PA
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2024-01-25
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Part 3 Business Regulation and Taxation Code
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Title 1 Real Estate
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Article 304 Property Tax Distraints
- Administrative Code
- General Provisions
- Art 101 Codified Ordinances
- Art 102 Act 47 Recovery Plan
- Art 103 Official Standards
- Art 104 (Reserved)
- Legislative
- Art 111 Council
- Art 113 Mayor
- Art 115 Council Procedure
- Administrative Offices and Departments
- Art 121 Administration Generally
- Art 122 City Administrator
- Art 123 (Reserved)
- Art 124 Chief Financial Officer
- Art 125 City Clerk
- Art 127 (Reserved)
- Art 129 (Reserved)
- Art 131 Fiscal Procedure
- Art 133 Department of Administration
- Art 135 Bureau of Law
- Art 137 (Reserved)
- Art 139 Bureau of Planning and Development
- Art 141 Department of Public Works and Parks
- Art 143 (Reserved)
- Art 145 Department of Police
- Art 146 (Reserved)
- Art 147 (Reserved)
- Art 149 Department of Fire
- Art 151 Department of Community and Economic Development
- Art 153 Department of Code Enforcement
- Art 155 Department of Recreation and Parks
- Art 156 Parking Enforcement
- Art 157 Board of Health
- Art 159 (Reserved)
- Art 160 Board of Recreation
- Employment Provisions; Pensions and Benefits
- Art 161 Personnel System
- Art 162 Police Civil Service Rules and Regulations
- Art 163 Civil Service Board
- Art 164 Fire Civil Service Rules and Regulations
- Art 165 Employment Provisions
- Art 166 Comprehensive Municipal Pension Trust Fund Board of Trustees
- Art 167 City Employees Pension Plan
- Art 169 Police Pension Plan
- Art 171 Firemen's Pension Plan
- Art 172 Plan of Administrative Improvement for the City of New Castle Pension Plans
- Authorities, Boards and Commissions
- Art 181 General Provisions
- Art 183 (Reserved)
- Art 185 (Reserved)
- Art 186 Shade Tree Commission
- Art 187 Authorities
- Art 188 (Reserved)
- Art 189 (Reserved)
- Art 190 (Reserved)
- Intergovernmental Cooperation
- Art 191 New Castle Municipal Fire Services Assistance
- Art 192 Shared Equipment Program
- Art 193 Central Booking Program Intergovernmental Agreement
- Art 194 Municipal Utility Alliance Cooperation Agreement
- Art 195 Centralized Answering and Dispatch Service
- Art 196 Interjurisdictional Agreement With New Castle Sanitation Authority
- Art 197 Drug Task Force Agreement
- Art 197A Lawrence County Drug Task Force Agreement
- Art 198 Municipal Police Cooperative Agreement
- Art 199 City-County Cooperative Agreements
- Art 199A Citywide Development Corporation of New Castle
- Emergency Services Cost Recovery
- Art 201 Fire Suppression
- Art 202 Automobile Accidents
- Art 203 Specialty Rescue Services
- Art 204 Hazardous Material Response, Mitigation and Abatement
- Art 205 Unlock Service
- Art 206 Staff Training, Inspections and Fire Drills
- Business Regulation and Taxation Code
- Real Estate
- Art 301 Assessment Law
- Art 303 Property Tax
- Art 304 Property Tax Distraints
- § 304.01 Purpose.
- § 304.02 Enforcement.
- § 304.03 Severability.
- Art 305 Tax Collection
- Art 306 Delinquent Real Estate Taxes Fee Schedule
- Business Regulation
- Art 311 Closed Circuit Television Systems (Catv)
- Art 313 Circuses, Carnivals and Shows
- Art 315 Coal Sales
- Art 317 Closing-Out, Damaged Goods and Defunct Business Sales
- Art 319 Dances and Dance Halls
- Art 321 Gaming Devices and Amusement Devices
- Art 323 Juke Boxes
- Art 325 Loudspeakers
- Art 329 Panhandlers, Solicitors, and Transient Vendors
- Art 333 Refuse Collectors
- Art 334 Refuse Disposal
- Art 335 (Reserved)
- Art 337 Eating and Drinking Places
- Act 511 Taxes
- Art 341 Earned Income Tax
- Art 343 (Reserved)
- Art 345 Local Services Tax
- Art 347 (Reserved)
- Art 349 Realty Transfer Tax
- Property Tax Exemptions
- Art 361 Improvement of Deteriorated Real Property Tax Exemption
- Art 363 Deteriorated Area Improvement Tax Exemption
- Art 365 Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (Lerta)
- Traffic Code
- Art 501 Traffic Rules
- Art 502 Brake Retarder Prohibition - Jake Brakes
- Art 505 Vehicle Removal and Impounding
- Art 509 Parking
- Art 513 Vehicle Operation and Parking
- Art 517 Streets Closed for Repair
- Art 521 Snow Emergencies and Street Cleaning
- Art 525 Loading Zones
- Art 533 Parking Commercial Vehicles
- Art 537 Snowmobiles and Mini-Bikes
- Art 538 All-Terrain Vehicles, Dirt Bikes and Other Motorized Recreational Vehicles
- Art 539 Closure of North Apple Way
- General Offenses Code
- Art 701 Controlling Vagrancy Within City Limits
- Art 705 Advertising and Handbill Distribution
- Art 709 Curfew
- Art 713 Disorderly Conduct
- Art 714 Public Nudity
- Art 715 Disorderly Houses
- Art 716 Residential Restrictions for Registered Sexual Violent Offenders
- Art 717 Dogs
- Art 718 Offenses Endangering Public Peace and Good Order
- Art 721 False Fire Alarms
- Art 725 Firearms and Weapons
- Art 737 Parades and Assemblages
- Art 739 Tobacco Use Restrictions
- Art 741 Parks
- Art 745 Pigeons and Starlings
- Art 749 Railroads
- Art 753 Streets and Sidewalks
- Art 757 Downtown Improvement Area
- Streets, Utilities and Public Services Code
- Streets and Sidewalk Areas
- Art 901 Street Excavations and Pavement Cuts
- Art 903 City Improvements
- Art 905 Street Acceptance
- Art 909 Unpaved Street Maintenance
- Art 911 Low Cost Street Paving
- Art 913 Manholes
- Art 915 Poles and Wires
- Art 917 Driveways
- Art 919 (Reserved)
- Art 921 Sidewalk Construction and Repair
- Public Sewers
- Art 931 Sanitary Sewer Connections
- Art 932 Transfer of Storm Sewer System
- Art 933 (Reserved)
- Art 934 Stormwater Management
- Art 935 Septic Tanks and Holding Tanks
- Art 937 Sewer Extensions Outside the City
- Art 939 Interceptors and Separators
- Other Public Services
- Art 950 City of New Castle Municipal Solid Waste
- Art 951 (Reserved)
- Art 952 (Reserved)
- Art 953 Hydrant Surcharge
- Health and Sanitation Code
- Health Nuisances
- Art 1103 (Reserved)
- Art 1107 Waste and Discarded Materials
- Art 1111 Depositing and Littering
- Art 1115 Transporting Materials
- Art 1123 Weeds and Grass
- Art 1125 Neighborhood Blight Reclamation and Revitalization Act
- Art 1127 Trees
- Animals and Fowl
- Art 1141 Bees
- Art 1145 Domestic Animals
- Groundwater Use Restrictions
- Art 1160 M-2 Heavy Industrial Zoning District of the Seventh Ward Groundwater Use Restrictions
- Planning and Zoning Code
- Subdivision Regulations
- Art 1301 Purpose and Jurisdiction
- Art 1303 Definitions
- Art 1305 Compliance, Enforcement, and Penalty
- Art 1307 Variances and Amendments
- Art 1309 Plan Requirements
- Art 1311 Plat Procedures
- Art 1313 Design Standards
- Art 1315 Improvements
- Zoning Ordinance
- Art 1321 General Provisions
- Art 1322 Definitions
- Art 1323 Administration, Enforcement and Appeals
- Art 1324 Amendments
- Art 1325 Zoning Hearing Board
- Art 1326 Neighborhood Improvement Overlay District
- Art 1327 New Castle North Hill Historic Overlay District Standards and Guidelines
- Art 1328 (Reserved)
- Art 1329 District Regulations
- Art 1331 Supplementary Regulations
- Art 1332 Signs
- Art 1333 Mobile Home Court and Development Guidelines
- Art 1335 Group Homes
- Art 1336 Adult Entertainment Establishments
- Fire Prevention Code
- Art 1501 Standard Adopted
- Art 1505 Explosives Storage and Transportation
- Art 1509 Gasoline Filling Stations
- Art 1513 Tank and Pump Testing
- Art 1517 Fireworks
- Art 1521 Fire Insurance Escrow
- Art 1522 Payment of Delinquent Taxes From Fire Insurance Proceeds
- Building and Housing Code
- Standards Adopted
- Art 1701 (Reserved)
- Art 1702 Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code Act
- Art 1703 (Reserved)
- Art 1705 (Reserved)
- Art 1709 Flood Plain Management
- Local Provisions
- Art 1725 Fire Zones
- Art 1727 Numbering Buildings
- Art 1729 Moving Buildings
- Art 1731 Demolition
- Art 1733 Unsafe and Unsanitary Structures
- Art 1735 Trailers
- Art 1737 Junk and Wrecking Yards
- Art 1739 Party Walls
- Art 1741 Surface or Storm Waters
- Art 1743 Buyer Notification
- Art 1743A Zoning Classification/Occupancy Permits
- Art 1744 (Reserved)
- Art 1745 Dumpster Ordinance
- Existing Structures
- Art 1761 International Property Maintenance Code
- Art 1783 Facilities and Services
- Art 1784 Procedures for Council Review of Repository Property Bids
- Tables
- Tbl A Franchises
- Tbl B Easements
- Tbl C1 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 1ST Ward
- Tbl C2 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 2ND Ward
- Tbl C3 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 3RD Ward
- Tbl C4 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 4TH Ward
- Tbl C5 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 5TH Ward
- Tbl C6 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 6TH Ward
- Tbl C7 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 7TH Ward
- Tbl C8 Vacating of Streets and Alleys - 8TH Ward
- Tbl D Dedication, Location and Grade Levels of Streets
- Tbl E Acquisition and Disposal of Real Property
- Tbl F Lease of Real Property
- Tbl G Change of Street Name
- Tbl H Annexation and Detachment of Territory
- Tbl I Zoning Map Changes
- Tbl J Traffic Rules
- Tbl K Subdivisions
- Disposition List
- Art DL Disposition List
[Ord. 8127, passed 3-26-2015]
The purpose of this article is the establish a process for enforcing
Property Tax Distraints to enable the City of New Castle to collect
Real Estate Taxes and establishing a civil penalty for tenants in
possession who refuse to comply with a Property Tax Distraint Notice.
[Ord. 8127, passed 3-26-2015]
The Treasurer of the City of New Castle, through its authorized
Agent recommended by the Mayor and approved by City Council, is hereby
authorized to utilize and enforce the provisions of the Act of May
25, 1945, P.L. 1050, § 19; 72 P.S. § 5511.19.
If any tenant fails to pay any rent to the City Treasurer following
service of a notice of distraint, the City Treasurer, or other City
officials, are authorized to issue a citation and/or institute civil
litigation against such tenant for the tenant's failure to comply
with the distraint. Such civil litigation and/or citation is authorized
by the City Treasurer and may be prosecuted in the name of the City
and initiated by any City official.
[Ord. 8127, passed 3-26-2015]
If any portion of this Ordinance is found by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be illegal or unconstitutional, then it is deemed
to be the intent of City Council that the balance of this Ordinance
would have been enacted irrespective of said invalid portion.
