[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Wilkinsburg
7-31-1972 as Ch. V, Part 2, of the 1972 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
BUILDING
PERSON
The following words, as used in this chapter, shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed thereto, except in those instances where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Any structure used or intended to be used as a dwelling or a place
of business or industry; but the word "building" shall not include any public
building or any structure built as a place of worship, or any accessory building
located on a lot where there is also a main building.
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
B.
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural,
the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the
feminine and the neuter.
All buildings in the borough shall be numbered by the owners thereof
in accordance with plans prepared by the Borough Engineer.
The Building Inspector shall be required to assign the numbers for buildings
hereafter erected in the borough. Such official numbers shall be given and
assigned upon blank forms provided for the purpose, with stubs to enable a
record of such numbers to be maintained.
The Building Inspector shall, upon application by the owner of a building,
furnish such owner with the official number for such building, and the Building
Inspector may serve notice upon any owner of a building of the official number
for such building. Within thirty (30) days after having been served notice
of the official number of a building, the owner of such building shall place
such official number, composed of digits at least two (2) inches high, to
be placed or affixed so as to be visible from the street, in a permanent and
durable manner, and thereafter shall continue to maintain such number in complete,
legible and durable form.
Any person who shall violate or fail to conform to any provision of
this chapter shall, for each and every such violation or failure to conform,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than six hundred
dollars ($600.) and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such
fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days.
