Every person having ownership, possession, custody,
control or charge of any building or structure shall have and maintain
the established street address number thereon upon or near each entrance
from a street of the Township or state and/or from any other public
accessway in the manner and location designated by this chapter. "Accessway"
shall include, but not be limited to, any alley, stairway, driveway
or walkway.
The owners and/or occupants of all establishments
contained within a multitenant commercial, office or industrial building
complex which have front and rear entrances shall cause the correct
street numbers to be placed on or adjacent to both front and rear
doors. The number shall comply with all other sections of this chapter.
Installation, change, substitution or removal
of any existing or subsequently designated street address number shall
be completed within 10 days after receipt by the owner, occupant,
lessee, tenant or custodian of such building or structure, or any
person or agent in charge thereof, of a written notice containing
appropriate instructions therefor from the Township.
The minimum dimensions of any street address
number designated by the Township on or after May 1, 1991, shall be
as follows:
A. The height in inches of any number or figure therein
shall be the sum of 1/10 of the distance in feet of the number from
the edge of the pavement of the road which the building or structure
is situated and providing that every number shall not be less than
four inches in height.
B. The overall width of any figure in or comprising the
number shall be 1/2 of its height.
C. The width of the stroke of any figure in or comprising
the number shall be 1/10 of its height.
D. Any building not visible from the road shall place
the number on a post or other means of support at least 18 inches
off of the ground at the main driveway entrance or walkway, so as
to be easily visible from the street. In the event that a building
is one of several located along a joint driveway or access drive,
each address must be posted at the drive entrance from the street,
as noted above, and additionally at each individual drive or front
yard area.
E. Any building situated on a corner shall locate the
number only on the street representing the correct mailing address
assigned regardless of where the property driveway is located.
The Township shall adopt such reasonable rules
and regulations as are necessary to implement the street address number
provisions of this chapter.
All buildings on the west and south side of
any street within the Township shall be assigned an even number. All
buildings on the east and north of any street within the Township
shall be assigned an odd number.
[Added 12-11-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-18]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter, upon conviction thereof in an action
brought before a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this chapter continues
or each section of this chapter which shall be found to have been
violated shall constitute a separate offense.