The following rules and regulations for the subdivision of land in the Township of Charleston, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, are adopted by Ordinance No. 106, dated September 30, 1975, by the Board of Township Supervisors pursuant to Article V, Section 501 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247 of 1968, as amended.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10501.
The governing body of each municipality may regulate subdivisions
and land development within the municipality by enacting a subdivision
and land development chapter. The chapter may require that all plats
of land lying within the municipality shall be submitted for approval
to the governing body or in lieu thereof to a planning agency designated
in the chapter for this purpose. All powers granted herein to the
governing body or the planning agency shall be exercised in accordance
with the provisions of the subdivision and land development chapter.
This chapter shall become effective on October 21, 1975, and
shall remain in effect until modified or rescinded by the Board of
Supervisors Township of Charleston.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Charleston
Township Subdivision Ordinance."
No subdivision of any lot, tract or parcel of land shall be
effected no grading of the property shall be commenced; no road, sanitary
sewer, storm sewer, water main or other facilities an public utilities
in connection therewith shall be constructed, opened or dedicated
for public use or travel, or for the common use of occupants of buildings
abutting thereon, except in strict accordance with the provisions
of this chapter.
No lot in a subdivision shall be sold or leased; no permit to
erect, alter or repair any building upon land in a subdivision shall
be issued; and no building shall be erected in a subdivision, unless
and until a subdivision plan has been approved and recorded, and until
the improvements required by the Board of Supervisors in connection
therewith have either been constructed or guaranteed as hereinafter
provided.
