(a) Duties of Secretary/Treasurer. For the purpose of procuring accurate information, in reference to the ownership of real estate, the Secretary/Treasurer shall, under the direction of Council, cause to be made all necessary books, maps and plans as will show the situation and dimensions of each property thereon, which books, maps and plans shall be so prepared as to show the location and the name of the owner or owners thereof, with blank space for the name of the owner of each lot, and with provisions for the names of future owners and the dates of future transfers of title.
(b) Access to Records; Assistance of Engineer. For the purpose of establishing the real estate registry, the Secretary/Treasurer shall have access, without charge, to any public records wherein the necessary information may be obtainable, and may also cause a search to be made in other places for any muniments or evidences of title not reported to him or her as herein provided and requisite for the completion of such books, maps and plans. In such work, he or she shall have the assistance of the Engineer.
(c) Preservation and Keeping of Registry. Those books, maps and plans referred to in subsection (a) hereof shall be carefully preserved and shall be so kept, by additions from time to time, as to show the ownership of every lot or piece of real estate or subdivision thereof within the limits of the Borough, with the succeeding transmissions of title from the time of the commencement of those plans, but nothing contained therein shall, at any time, invalidate any Municipal or tax claim by reason of the fact that the same is not assessed or levied against the registered owner.
(d) Duty of Owners of Real Estate. All owners of real estate within the limits of the Borough, within one month after the date of the approval of original Ordinance 810, passed December 8, 1933, and every subsequent purchaser, devisee or other person, within one month after acquiring title in any manner whatsoever, to any real estate in the Borough, shall furnish to the Secretary/Treasurer, at his or her office, descriptions of their respective properties upon forms to be furnished by the Borough and, at the same time, shall present their conveyances to be stamped as evidence of the registry thereof.
(e) Duty of County Officers. The Sheriffs of Lawrence and Beaver Counties shall present for registry the deeds of all properties within the Borough sold by them at judicial sales, and the Prothonotary and Recorder of Deeds of Lawrence and Beaver Counties shall not admit for record any deed of any property in the Borough bearing a date subsequent to December 8, 1933, unless the same is first duly stamped as provided in subsection (d) hereof.
(f) Penalty. Whoever neglects or refuses to comply with this section, for a period of thirty days after public notice, shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars ($5.00), to be recovered with costs of suit in the name and for the use of the Borough as penalties of like amount are now recoverable.
(Ord. 810. Passed 12-8-33.)