Ordinances

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TABLE OF ORDINANCES

Administration and Government

1. Ordinance No. 1 of 1994--Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Risk Management Association

2. Ordinance No. 3 of 1994--Ordinance Establishing a Planning Commission

Code Enforcement

1. Ordinance 2 of 2008 --Property Maintenance Ordinance

2. Ordinance No. 1 of 2016--International Property Maintenance Code 

3. Ordinance No. 1 of 2021--Blight Reclamation and Revitalization Ordinance

Fire Prevention

1. Ordinance No. 1 of 2019--Open Burning Ordinance

Flood Plain Management

1. Ordinance No. 2 of 2012--Flood Plain Management - replaced Ordinance 2-2005 (Storm Water Management and Drainage Ordinance)

Health and Safety

1. Ordinance No. 1 of 2020--Fireworks Ordinance (replaced by Ordinance # 1 of 2023)

2. Ordinance No. 1 0f 2023--Revised Fireworks Ordinance

Motor Vehicles and Traffic

1. Ordinance No. 2 of 1994--Laying Out and Opening Certain Roads

2. Ordinance No. 4 of 1994--Laying Out and Opening Certain Roads

3. Ordinance No. 1 of 1999--Vehicular Driveway Ordinance

4. Ordinance No. 1 of 2008--Road Dedication-Straub Subdivision

5. Ordinance No 11 of 2010--Partial Vacation of Beaupland Road

6. Ordinance No 9-19 of 2011--Stop Sign Ordinance

7. Ordinance No 2 of 2021--Opening Seneff Lane and Beach Road as Public Roads

Sewers and Sewage Disposal

1. Ordinance No. 1 of 2012--Management of On-Lot Sewage Systems

Stormwater Management

1. Ordinance No. 3 of 2012--Stormwater Management

Subdivision and Land Development

1. Ordinance No. 1 of 2010--Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance

Taxation

1. Ordinance No. 1 of 1993--Earned Income Tax

2. Ordinance No. 2 of 1993--Realty Transfer Tax

3. Ordinance No. 3 of 1993--Occupation Privilege Tax (Currently Local Service Tax)

4. Ordinance No. 4 of 1993--Per Capita Tax

5. Ordinance No. 3 of 2010--2010 Real Property Tax Levy Ordinance Note: The property tax rate is set by Council every year--by ordinance when there is a rate change and by resolution if there is no rate change. There has been no change to the property tax rate since 2010.

Zoning

1. Ordinance No. _ of 2010--Zoning Ordinance

2. Ordinance No. 1 of 2013--Zoning Amendment-Shooting Range (firearms)