ORDINANCE NO._________
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOROUGH OF GETTYSBURG,

ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 4, PART 1 AND CHAPTER 5, PART 2 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE BOROUGH OF GETTYSBURG RELATIVE TO BUILDING NUMBER REQUIREMENTS AND FURTHER AMENDING CHAPTER 5, PART 2 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO FIRE EXTINGUISHER REQUIREMENTS.

The Borough Council of the Borough of Gettysburg hereby enacts, adopts, and ordains that Chapter 4, Part 1 and Chapter 5, Part 2 of the Code of Ordinances of the Borough of Gettysburg are hereby amended as follows:

SECTION 1: Chapter 4, Part 1, Section 101.1 and Section 101.2 shall be amended to read as follows:

"§4-101. Correct Numbering of Buildings Required.

1. It shall be the duty of each and every owner of any real property in the Borough of Gettysburg improved with a building to cause the same to be numbered in accordance with this Part. Buildings shall have approved address numbers conspicuously placed in a position to be plainly legible and visible from the opposite side of the public street or way of vehicular access fronting the property. In addition, if the rear of a property adjoins a public alley or a way of vehicular access, a building address number shall also be conspicuously placed in a position to be plainly legible and visible from the opposite side of the adjoining public alley or way of vehicular access at the rear of the property. The color of a building address number is to be in contrast to its immediate background. A building address number shall be comprised of Arabic numerals or alphabet letters which shall be a minimum of three (3) inches in height.

2. It shall be unlawful for any owner of any building in the Borough of Gettysburg to use and display on such building any number indicating or purporting to be a building number that does not comply with the provisions of this Part."

SECTION 2: Chapter 5, Part 2, Section 304.3 shall be amended to read as follows:

"§304.3. Premises identification.

Buildings shall have approved address numbers conspicuously placed in a position to be plainly legible and visible from the opposite side of the public street or way of vehicular access fronting the property. In addition, if the rear of a property adjoins a public alley or a way of vehicular access, a building address number shall also be conspicuously placed in a position to be plainly legible and visible from the opposite side of the adjoining public alley or way of vehicular access at the rear of the property. The color of a building address number is to be in contrast to its immediate background. A building address number shall be comprised of Arabic numerals or alphabet letters which shall be a minimum of three (3) inches in height."

SECTION 3: Chapter 5, Part 2, Section 704.5 shall be amended to read as follows:

"704.5 Fire extinguishers. All portable fire extinguishers shall be visible, provided with ready access thereto, and maintained in an efficient and safe operating condition. Each dwelling unit shall have at a minimum a fire extinguisher of the 2A 10BC type. Fire extinguishers shall be placed in the kitchen area of the dwelling at a location removed from the stove or other heat source. The fire extinguisher shall be fully charged. The fire extinguisher shall have either a current inspection tag or, in the alternative, the owner of the dwelling unit may provide satisfactory proof to the Borough's inspector that the fire extinguisher servicing the dwelling unit was purchased within the twelve (12) month period preceding the Borough's inspection."

SECTION 4: All remaining provisions of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 shall remain in full force and effect unless otherwise repealed by any other ordinance. All other ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SECTION 5: This Ordinance shall become effective upon enactment. However, the Borough of Gettysburg will not begin to strictly enforce the Building Number revisions contained in this Ordinance until April 1, 2011.

ENACTED, ADOPTED, AND ORDAINED on this 9th day of August 2010.

BOROUGH OF GETTYSBURG

By: ___________________________

John D. Butterfield

President of Borough Council

Attest:

______________________

Sara L. Stull, Secretary

APPROVED this 9th day of August, 2010.

William E. Troxell, Mayor