[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Milton 1-15-1957 as Ch. IV, Part 2, of the 1957 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
It shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of any store,
house or other building being and fronting on any of the public streets
of said borough to number the same, which number shall be plainly
faced upon the front thereof.
To regulate the numbering of the stores, houses and other buildings
aforesaid, it is directed that the same be numbered as follows: north
and south from Broadway, east and west from Front Street, counting
each square 100 numbers and allowing one number to every 15 feet.
The even numbers shall be placed on the west side of the streets running
north and south, and the odd numbers shall be placed on the east side
thereof. The even numbers shall be placed on the south side of the
streets running east and west, and the odd numbers shall be placed
on the north side thereof.
A.
The owner or occupant of any store, house or other building aforesaid
who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this chapter
within 10 days after notice to him shall, upon conviction thereof
before any District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such
fine and costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than
30 days.[1]
B.
Each day's continuance of a violation of this chapter, after
the expiration of such notice, shall constitute a separate offense.
C.
The owner of a building shall be liable for the penalty herein provided
where such building is unoccupied or is occupied by the owner thereof
or is a multiple-dwelling or multiple-business property designed for
occupancy by more than one tenant; the occupant thereof in all other
circumstances shall be liable.
