[Adopted 8-14-1950[1]]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance appeared in Ch. XVI, Part 1B, of the 1953 Code of Ordinances.
A. 
The following words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
OPEN
When used in reference to any street, includes the opening, grading, construction, paving and/or resurfacing.
PERSON
Includes any natural person, firm, association or corporation.
STREET
Includes any street, highway, lane, road or alley.
B. 
The singular shall include the plural, and the masculine shall include the feminine.
A. 
No person shall open or dedicate any street for public use or travel or any drainage facility in connection therewith in the Borough without first submitting a suitable plan thereof to the Borough Council for its approval in accordance with the following rules and regulations:
(1) 
Such plan shall be dated and shall contain the name of the person preparing the plan and the owner of the property.
(2) 
Such plan shall show courses and distances of all streets, together with the size of lots and any building restrictions in effect.
(3) 
Such plan shall show a total area and also the area of each drainage section.
(4) 
Such plan shall show the profile of every street, the course, structure and capacity of drainage facilities and the method of drainage of the adjacent and contiguous territory.
(5) 
Such plan shall show details whereby every proposed street is to connect to streets adopted by the Borough and shall show the connecting plans for drainage facilities along the proposed streets and those of the Borough.
(6) 
Such plan shall show all unusual conditions existing, either as to grades, obstructions, streams, public utility facilities or any other feature, and shall give such further details as the Council may require.
(7) 
Upon application therefor, a public hearing may, at the discretion the Council, be arranged for by the Borough authorities after giving such notice as the Council may deem desirable in each case.
B. 
No plan shall be approved by the Council until at least three weeks after its first presentation at a Council meeting.
C. 
No plan which includes streets to be dedicated as part of a subdivision shall be approved by the Council unless the plan fully adheres to those requirements set forth in the Middletown Borough Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance.[1]
[Added 10-4-2022 by Ord. No. 1392, approved 10-4-2022]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 238, Subdivision and Land Development.
The Borough Council shall have the power to alter any such plan and to specify any changes or modifications of any kind which it, in its discretion, may deem necessary with respect thereto and may make its approval of any such plan subject to any such alterations, changes or modifications.
[Amended 4-6-1987 by Ord. No. 943; 10-4-2022 by Ord. No. 1392, approved 10-4-2022]
Any plan, when so approved by the Council, shall be signed on behalf of the Borough Council by the Borough Council President and the Borough Secretary. The owner of said plan, within seven days of Borough approval and signature, shall also have same recorded within the Dauphin County Recorder of Deeds office. A complete, full-size copy of the approved, recorded plan shall be provided to the Borough for filing and be available for public inspection.
[Amended 10-4-2022 by Ord. No. 1392, approved 10-4-2022]
If any street or drainage facility in connection therewith shall be constructed or dedicated for public use or travel except in strict accordance with a plan approved by the Council or by the Court on appeal as provided by law, neither the Borough Council nor any other public authority shall have any responsibility of any kind in respect to such street or drainage facility, notwithstanding any use of the same by the public; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the construction or installation of utilities if required by engineering necessity for the accommodation of other territory.
[Amended 10-4-2022 by Ord. No. 1392, approved 10-4-2022]
Every new street in any building development shall be constructed at the cost, expense and liability of the person promoting, sponsoring, constructing, developing or erecting such building development, and the Borough shall not hereafter be required to accept any street until it shall have been so constructed, inspected and determined to meet the approved plan, applicable ordinances and standards.
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to the penalties provided in the Act of 1927, P.L. 519, Section 1668, as amended by the Act of 1947, P.L. 1621, Section 48.[1]
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Editor's Note: See now 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 1735.