[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Warrington 7-2-1956 by Ord.
No. 3-56 (Ch. 4, Part 2, of the 1995 Code of Ordinances).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Township Manager of Warrington Township is hereby empowered
and required to draw up or to have drawn up, subject to the approval
of the Board of Supervisors, a building numbering plan for the entire
Township of Warrington and to assign numbers to all existing buildings
and/or lots within the Township of Warrington in accordance with said
plan.
As soon as practical after the assignment of such numbers, the
Township Manager shall notify or cause to be notified the owner and/or
occupant of all existing buildings, in writing, of the assigned number,
directing that such numbers be affixed to the building or elsewhere
upon the property in the manner prescribed by this chapter within
30 days of such notice. Each property owner and/or occupant who shall
disregard or fail to comply with such notice within the time limit
specified shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The required numbers are to be of a durable light-reflecting
material or to be of a color which contrasts with the immediate background,
and be Arabic numerals or alphabet letters at least four inches high,
with a minimum stroke width of 0.5 inch.
Whenever any building is situated more than 50 feet from the
street line, the numbers shall be placed near the walk, driveway or
common entrance to the land on which the building is erected, or upon
a gate, post, rural mailbox, fence, tree, post or other appropriate
place so as to be easily discernible from the street. When any building
is located within 50 feet of the street line, the numbers may be conspicuously
placed immediately above, on or at the side of the main door of each
building where practical, in such a manner that the number can be
seen plainly from the street.
No numbers shall be placed so that they will be hidden at any
time by obstructions, screen or storm doors, grass, shrubbery, or
trees. It shall be a violation of this chapter to obstruct or cause
to be obstructed any numbers placed in conformity with this chapter.
All numbers in conflict with the officially assigned number shall
be removed from the premises within 30 days of the date of the formal
notice of assignment of numbers.
Whenever a building shall hereafter be erected, the owner thereof
or his agent shall apply to the Township Manager for the official
numbers thereof. The assigned numbers shall be affixed by the owner
or his agent in the manner prescribed herein and shall be maintained
as herein required for existing buildings.
Any person who shall alter or deface or remove or destroy any
number and not restore or replace the same within five days thereafter
shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter and subject to the
penalties hereinafter imposed.
[Amended 2-21-1995 by Ord. No. 95-3; 2-10-1998 by Ord. No. 98-2]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this chapter, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before
a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement
of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this chapter continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
