ADOPTING ORDINANCE
ORDINANCE NO. 828
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE BOROUGH EAST MCKEESPORT, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; CONSOLIDATING, REVISING, AMENDING AND REPEALING CERTAIN ORDINANCES; ENACTING CERTAIN NEW PROVISIONS; PROVIDING A PROCEDURE FOR AMENDING THE CODE AND FOR THE CITATION OF THE CODE AND THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF; ESTABLISHING RESPONSIBILITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE CODE; SAVING CERTAIN PROVISIONS FROM REPEAL; AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION.
The Borough Council hereby ordains:
Section 1. Adoption. The "Code of Ordinances, East McKeesport Borough," as prepared and published for the said Borough, is hereby adopted as a consolidation, codification and revision of the ordinances of the Borough. Chapters 1 through 27 thereof contain the text of the body of all general administrative and regulatory ordinances of the Borough organized as follows:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 .... Administration and Government
Chapter 2 ... Animals
Chapter 3 ... Bicycles
Chapter 4 ... Buildings
Chapter 5 ... Code Enforcement
Chapter 6 ... Conduct
Chapter 7 ... Fire Prevention and Fire Protection
Chapter 8 ... Floodplains [Reserved]
Chapter 9 ... Grading and Excavating [Reserved]
Chapter 10 ... Health and Safety
Chapter 11 ... Housing
Chapter 12 ... Libraries [Reserved]
Chapter 13 ... Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations
Chapter 14 ... Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Chapter 15 ... Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 16 ... Parks and Recreation
Chapter 17 ... Planned Residential Development [Reserved]
Chapter 18 ... Sewers and Sewage Disposal
Chapter 19 ... Signs
Chapter 20 ... Solid Waste
Chapter 21 ... Streets and Sidewalks
Chapter 22 ... Subdivision and Land Development
Chapter 23 ... Swimming Pools
Chapter 24 ... Taxation; Special
Chapter 25 ... Trees [Reserved]
Chapter 26 ... Water
Chapter 27 ... Zoning
B. Revisions
Chapter, Part, Section Subject Ordinance No.
Section 5. New Enactments, Amendments and Repeals. As a necessary part of codification, the following ordinances are hereby enacted, amended and repealed as summarized by short title:
A. New Enactments
Chapter, Part, Section Subject
B. Amendments
Chapter, Part. Section Subject Ordinance No.
1, Part 1, §1-109 Compensation of the Police Department 825,§1
1, Part 2, §1-201 Rank in the Force 668,§;679,§1
1, Part 5, §1-515 Police Pension Fund; Actuary 789,§16
1, Part 6, §1-609 Fire Insurance Proceeds Escrow Law;
Procedures and Regulations 797,§9
Procedures and Regulations 797,§9
7, Part 2, §7-202 False Alarms; False Alarms 780,§2
7, Part 3, §7-302 Explosives and Pyrtotechnics; Permits 270,§2
11, Part 1, §11-105 Tenant Registration; Application Fee 786,§5
13, Part 1, § 13-104 Transient Retail Business License; Fee 701,§4
13, Part 1, §13-107 Transient Retail Business License; Exemptions 701,§
16, Part 1, §16-102 Park Hours 705,§2
18, Part 1, §18-101 Sanitary Sewer Connections 535, §1
18, Part 1, § 18-105 Sewer Connections; Permit Fee 535, §5;646, §1
C. Repeals
Ord. Subject
24 Driveways
42A Health and Safety
42B Health and Safety
60 Health and Safety
147 Sidewalks
148 Employment of Minors
542 § 4 Zoning Commission
561 Registration of Bicycles
604 Pole Tax
738 Tar Buggies
Section 6. Adoption of Standard Codes by Reference. As a necessary part of codification, the following ordinances are hereby enacted by reference as standard codes summarized by short title:
Chapter, Part, Section Short Title
Section 7. Land Use Amendments. The Borough Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as is more fully shown in the complete text of Chapters 22 and 27 thereof which is attached hereto and made part hereof by reference hereto as if fully set out at length herein, with deletions shown by strike-tluoagh and additions shown by underline, all of which is briefly summarized hereinafter.
A. New Provisions. The following provisions are new provisions which are being added to the Code, are underlined throughout the text, and are summarized as follows:
Chapter, Part, Section Subject
27, Part 13, §27-1306 Administration and Enforcement; Enforcement Notice
B. Revised Provisions. The following provisions of the Code are revised, the text of which indicates deletions by strike-through and additions by underline, and are summarized as follows:
Section 11. Penalties. It shall be unlawful for anyone to change, alter or tamper with the Code of Ordinances in any manner which will intentionally misrepresent the laws of the Borough. Whosoever shall violate this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and costs or, in default of payment thereof, shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.
Section 12. Severability of Parts of Codification. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Borough Council that the Chapters, Parts, Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this codification are severable. If any Section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Code is declared unconstitutional, illegal or otherwise invalid by the judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, that invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining Chapters, Parts, Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases of this codification.
ENACTED AND ORDAINED THIS 12th day of June, 2003
ATTEST: EAST MCKEESPORT BOROUGH
Isl Connie Rosenbayger By: Isl Donna Ferrainolo
Secretary President of Borough Council
By: Isl Robert P. Howard
Mayor
Robert P. Howard