[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of New Wilmington 11-9-1979 by Ord. No. 366 (Ch. XIV, Part 2, of the 1967 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 6-4-2001 by Ord. No. 455]
The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:
LANDLORD RATE PAYER
One or more individuals or an organization listed on the borough records as the party responsible for the payment of water, sewerage or electrical service provided to one or more residential units or commercial units of a multiple-unit building, of which building such party is not the sole occupant.
MULTIPLE UNIT
A building containing one or more commercial units and/or one or more dwelling units occupied by one or more tenants but excluding nursing homes, homes for the aged, hotels and motels and college fraternity or sorority houses.
TENANT
Any person or group of persons whose commercial unit or whose dwelling unit in a multiple unit is provided water, sewage services and/or electricity pursuant to a rental arrangement for such unit, whether or not a separate charge is made therefor, but who is not the rate payer or the party responsible for the payment to the borough for the water, sewage services or electricity supplied to the unit.
[Amended 6-4-2001 by Ord. No. 455]
Every landlord rate payer shall supply to the Borough Office the names and addresses of every tenant in every multiple-unit building of the landlord rate payer located within the Borough of New Wilmington. Such information shall be supplied to the borough no later than December 15 of each year and shall be current to December 1 of the year filed. In addition to the annual filings on December 15, the landlord rate payer shall file such supplemental filings as may be necessary to keep the borough files current and up to date should there be a change in the tenants and the landlord rate payer's multiple-unit building between the annual filings. Such supplemental filings shall be made within 15 days of any tenant's leaving or entering occupancy in the building.
[Amended 1-3-2000 by Ord. No. 442]
Any landlord rate payer failing to comply with the terms of this chapter, upon conviction thereof before the District Justice, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding $600, plus costs of prosecution for each offense, for each day's violation hereof. In addition, subsequent to conviction before the District Justice, the Borough Council, after a public hearing, may require the landlord rate payer to provide separate metering facilities for water and/or electrical services to tenants.