[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Schuylkill 11-1-1995. Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall apply to each separate tract, lot, or parcel
of land within Schuylkill Township and each principal building on
any such tract, lot, or parcel.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any structure on the same lot with a principal building and
of a nature and use for purposes customarily considered incidental
and subordinate to that of the principal building.
Any structure enclosing space, or otherwise used in any manner
for residential, commercial, industrial, or storage use, or for any
other purposes other than an accessory building as defined herein.
Street address numbers shall be assigned to each tract, lot,
or parcel of land by the Township Engineer, or whomever else is appointed
by the Board of Supervisors, and placed on file in the Township office.
Thereafter, such property shall be designated for all purposes by
the number assigned, and all persons shall take due notice thereof
and comply with the provisions of this chapter when applicable. The
Board of Supervisors shall have the right and power to change a street
address number or numbers assigned to any property whenever it may
deem such a change necessary and desirable and require the owner or
occupant thereof the comply with the provisions of this chapter with
respect to such change.
The owner or occupant of each tract, lot, or parcel of land
to which no street address number has been previously assigned shall,
upon purchase, acquisition, or occupancy thereof, or within seven
days of discovery that no such number has been assigned, make application
to the Township Engineer, or his designated representative, for assignment
of a street address number. The Township official shall thereupon
assign a correct street address number to the property.
The Township Engineer shall be responsible for assigning proper
street address number sequences to each lot which is created as a
result of the subdivision. These numbers shall be in relation to the
numbers assigned to other lots fronting on the same street and shall
be properly recorded on the subdivision plan and Township files.
In order to comply with this chapter, street address numbers
shall be Arabic in design, shall have a minimum height of three inches,
and shall be mounted in a secure fashion to the principal building's
front wall or to a porch or other fixed appurtenance in front of the
principal building in the general vicinity of the main entryway or
main path or travel which leads to the main entrance from a public
or private street, or otherwise separately mounted in an approved
manner upon the face of a wall or upon a post or mailbox in the front
yard of the premises. The numbers shall be sufficiently legible as
to contrasting background, arrangement, spacing, size, and uniformity
of integers so that the numbers may be read during daylight hours
by a person with normal vision if the numbers are viewed from the
center line of the facing street. The numbers shall be placed so that
trees, shrubs, and other obstructions do not block the line of sight
of the numbers from the center of the street.
From and after the effective date of this chapter, the owner
and/or occupant of each tract, lot, or parcel of land shall continuously
display the street address number assigned to that tract, lot, or
parcel of land in accordance with the specifications set forth above.
A.
The absence of street numbers, or the insecure fastening, or the
absence of any parts thereof, or the use of any street address number
not assigned by the Township official, or the failure of a street
address number to meet the elevation requirement or the visibility
requirements shall be a violation of this chapter. Upon discovery
of such violation, a warning notice of violation may be sent by certified
mail to the property owner or occupant, or may be served personally
on the owner or occupant, or his agent, or may be posted in a prominent
place upon the property by a Township official, his agent, or the
Township police. Such notice shall state the specific provision of
this chapter violated and shall require compliance with the provisions
of this chapter within 15 days from the date of service or the posting
of the warning notice of violation.
B.
Any person who shall fail to correct the violation set forth in the
warning notice of violation and who shall be convicted of a violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be sentenced to pay
a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 together with the
costs of prosecution, or in the default of payment thereof, to imprisonment
in the county jail for a term not to exceed 30 days.[1]
C.
Each day that a violation of this chapter continues shall be deemed
a separate offense, and the owner and/or occupant of the tract, lot,
or parcel of land shall be subject to the penalty imposed by this
section for each and every day such violation continues.
