[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Harrisburg 2-12-1918 by Ord. No.
29-1918. Amendments noted where applicable.]
CROSS-REFERENCES
Bond: see Ch. 2-703.
Council to provide for register: see 3rd Class Code § 1515
(53 P.S. § 36515).
Duties of realty owners: see 3rd Class Code § 1519
(53 P.S. § 36519).
Preservation of records: see 3rd Class Code § 1517
(53 P.S. § 36517).
Property sold at judicial sale: see 3rd Class Code § 1520
(53 P.S. § 36520).
Real estate registry required: see 3rd Class Code §§ 1515
to 1521 (53 P.S. §§ 36515 to 36521).
Real estate transfer tax: see Ch. 5-701.
State law provisions: see 3rd Class Code § 1501 et
seq. (53 P.S. § 36501 et seq.).
Street improvements: see Ch. 9-101.
Water extension assessments: see Ch. 9-701.
[Ord. No. 10-1971; amended 7-13-1999 by Ord. No. 27-1999]
A.
The City Engineer shall be a registered civil engineer, shall be
appointed by the Mayor and shall be the Chief of the office of the
City Engineer in the office of the Mayor. He or she shall perform
the duties of the City Engineer as provided by law and such other
duties as may be delegated to him or her by the Mayor.
B.
The office of the City Engineer is a resource that has always been
interdepartmental in scope and function and therefore remains available
to all departments within City government. As such, all City agencies,
including the Harrisburg Redevelopment Authority and the Harrisburg
Housing Authority, are to use the office of the City Engineer for
all projects that involve infrastructure repairs.
C.
The City Engineer shall continue to have superintendence, direction
and control over all engineering matters of the City. The City Engineer
shall have authority to approve purchase orders for projects involving
capital improvements, repairs and maintenance of City infrastructure
systems and may sign requisitions. However, each department director
will continue to maintain fiscal control over funds appropriated to
that department for infrastructure improvements.
For the purpose of procuring accurate information in reference
to the ownership of all real estate within the City, a registry thereof
shall be made and kept as provided in this chapter.
A.
The City Engineer shall cause to be made all such necessary books,
maps and plans as will show the situation and dimensions of each property
in the City, which books, maps or plans shall be prepared so as to
show the City number and the owner of each lot, with provision for
the names of future owners and dates of future transfer of title.
B.
The books, maps and plans shall be carefully preserved by the City
Engineer and shall be so kept, by additions from time to time or otherwise,
as to show the ownership of every lot or piece of real estate or subdivision
thereof within the City limits, with the successive transmissions
of title from the date of the commencement of such plans. Certified
copies, under the hand of the City Engineer, of any of the entries
in such books or upon such maps or plans may be furnished to any person
desiring the same for the fee as established and set by the City.
[Ord. No. 29-1993; amended 7-13-1999 by Ord. No. 27-1999]
It shall be the duty of all owners of unregistered real estate
within the City limits, within one month from the date of approval
of Ordinance 29 passed February 12, 1918, and of every subsequent
purchaser, devisee, or person acquiring title by partition, sales
agreement or otherwise to any real estate therein, within 30 days
after acquiring such title, to furnish to the Registrar of Real Estate
in the office of the City Engineer descriptions of their respective
properties, upon forms to be furnished by the Bureau of Data Processing,
and at the same time to present their conveyances to be stamped by
the Registrar of Real Estate without charge as evidence of the registry
thereof. For the purpose of this chapter, "purchaser" shall include
the buyer in an agreement of sale as well as a grantee of a deed.
The information to be recorded shall include but is not limited to:
A.
The date of birth of each purchaser of the real estate;
B.
The complete name, without the use of initials, of the buyer and/or
grantee;
C.
Certification that a water meter recording service to the property
is in place and in working order; and
D.
A water meter reading that is not more than 30 days old.
[Amended 7-13-1999 by Ord. No. 27-1999]
The Sheriff of Dauphin County shall present for registry the
deeds of all properties within the City limits sold by him at upset
or judicial sale, whether in partition, sales agreement or otherwise.
The Prothonotary and Recorder of Deeds of Dauphin County shall not
admit for record any deed for any City property bearing a date subsequent
to the approval of Ordinance 29, passed February 12, 1918, unless
such deed has been duly stamped as herein directed as proof of registry.
Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the general code penalty, § 1-301.99 of these Codified Ordinances.
