[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Upper Southampton 1-21-1986 as Ch. 4, Part 1, of the 1986 Code.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction — See
Ch. 56.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The principal structure on a lot of land used or intended
to be used as a dwelling, place of business or industry, or for the
use of the public.
The survey, plan and system for the numbering
of lots and buildings, prepared by the House Numbering Committee appointed
for the purpose by the Board of Supervisors, a copy of which is hereto
annexed and made a part hereof,[1] is hereby adopted and approved.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said documents are on file
in the Township offices.
On and after the 29th day of March 1955, it
shall be the duty of each and every owner, trustee, lessee, agent
and occupant of every building in the Township of Upper Southampton
to affix thereto and maintain thereon or elsewhere upon the property
in the manner prescribed by this chapter, a number to be assigned
to it by the Zoning Officer in accordance with the plan and system
of numbering as herein prescribed.
For the purpose of the numbering system and
plan prescribed by this chapter, a system of north-to-south and east-to-west
numbered parallel lines is established on the map of the Township
spaced 750 feet apart, of which the north-to-south lines so spaced
and numbered are parallel to Davisville Road, and the east-to-west
lines are spaced and numbered parallel to County Line Road, so that
respectively all streets or roads, laid out parallel to Davisville
Road, shall be deemed for the purpose of assigning numbers north-south
thoroughfares and those laid out parallel to County Line Road shall
be deemed east-west thoroughfares. Streets laid out diagonally more
north to south than otherwise shall be deemed as north-south streets;
all others diagonally laid out shall be deemed east-west streets.
A.
The buildings on the southwardly and westwardly side
of all streets shall be assigned even numbers. Buildings on the northwardly
and eastwardly sides of all streets shall be assigned odd numbers.
Assignment of numbers shall accord with the front or main entrance
of the building. Where there are two or more entrances serving different
occupants, each entrance shall be assigned a number.
B.
The numbering on all north-south streets intersecting
County Line Road shall begin with the number "1" and shall increase
northerly from the intersection by 750 feet blocks on 100 numbers
each to Bristol Road, the allotment of numbers to be made as nearly
as practicable one number for each consecutive 20 feet, the numbering
on all east-west streets intersecting Davisville Road similarly to
begin with the number "1" and increase easterly from the intersection
by 750 feet blocks of 100 numbers each to Buck Road and Stump Bridge
Road, with numbers similarly allotted as above provided. Whenever
practical, the distance between any two consecutive streets, although
such distance may be slightly more or less than 750 feet, shall be
considered as constituting 100 numbers.
C.
Streets and roads not laid out the entire length and
breadth of the Township shall be assigned numbers allocated to the
cross-pattern of parallel lines within which they are located according
to the plan and system made a part of this chapter, and no buildings
on a street or road not forming an intersection with Davisville Road
or County Line Road shall be assigned numbers commencing with the
number "1."
D.
The Township Zoning Officer is hereby required and
directed to assign numbers in accordance with the plan and system
prescribed by this chapter.
E.
Numbers, as herein provided, shall be assigned to
all existing buildings in the Township as soon as possible after the
adoption of this chapter, and the Zoning Officer or any other Township
officer similarly authorized shall immediately thereafter mail to
the owner, trustee, lessee, agent or occupant of every lot upon which
a building is located, a notice of the number assigned to such building,
directing that such number be affixed to such building or elsewhere
upon, the property in the manner prescribed by this chapter, within
30 days after such notice. Every owner, trustee, lessee, agent or
occupant so notified who shall disregard or fail to comply with such
notice, within the time limit stated therein, shall be guilty of a
violation of this chapter.
F.
Numbers, as assigned to each building according to
the provisions of this chapter, shall be conspicuously affixed to,
painted upon, or otherwise displayed in full view upon the building
to which it is assigned or upon a permanent standard, base or support
between such building and the street or road line. Each number shall
be at least three inches high, of such color and material as to be
readily visible from the street or road to which it applies, and shall
be continuously maintained in a complete and legible form by the owner
or occupant. Any numbers hitherto used for buildings not the same
as those assigned pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall
not hereafter be displayed as the numbers of the respective premises.
G.
Whenever a building shall hereafter be erected in the Township, the owner or builder thereof shall forthwith apply to the Zoning Officer for the official number thereof. The Zoning Officer shall thereupon assign to the building its official number as provided in this chapter, which shall, within 30 days after being so assigned, be affixed or displayed and thereafter maintained by the owners or builder on the building or at the premises as required in Subsection F hereof for the numbers of existing buildings.
[Amended 6-7-1988 by Ord. No. 256; 3-18-2003 by Ord. No.
356; 6-19-2012 by Ord. No. 414]
Any violation of this chapter shall be enforced
by action brought before a District Justice in the same manner provided
for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules
of Criminal Procedure. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and/or to imprisonment for a
term not to exceed 10 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. For purposes
of this section, the doing of any act or thing prohibited by any provision
of this chapter, or the failure to do any act or thing as to which
any provision of this chapter creates an affirmative duty, shall constitute
a violation of this chapter punishable as herein stated.
