PRINTER'S NO. 1349
No. 1143 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY PITTS, A. K. HUTCHINSON, PETRARCA, ZELLER,
DeVERTER, HALVERSON, VROON, SIRIANNI, LEHR, MANMILLER AND
KLINGAMAN, MAY 24, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MAY 24, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), entitled
2 "An act concerning townships of the first class; amending,
3 revising, consolidating, and changing the law relating
4 thereto," providing for special building permit fees and
5 disposition thereof to certain volunteer fire companies.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Clause XVIII of section 1502, act of June 24,
9 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), known as "The First Class Township
10 Code," reenacted and amended May 27, 1949 (P.L.1955, No.569) and
11 amended July 31, 1963 (P.L.384, No.204), is amended to read:
12 Section 1502. The corporate power of a township of the first
13 class shall be vested in the board of township commissioners.
14 The board shall have power--
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16 XVIII. Building and Housing Regulations.--To prohibit or
17 regulate the erection of wooden buildings and housing in certain
18 parts of the township and make regulations for the construction
19 of new buildings and housing and the alteration and repair of
1 old ones, and to require that before the work begins municipal
2 approval of the plans and specifications therefor be secured; to
3 classify buildings and housing or parts of buildings and housing
4 according to the use to be made of them; to specify the mode of
5 construction of such different classes of buildings and housing;
6 and to require that before any use or occupancy be changed from
7 any classification to a different classification, as to which
8 more stringent regulations are prescribed under the provisions
9 of any ordinance relating thereto, municipal approval of the
10 plans and specifications therefor be secured. The ordinance or
11 resolution regulating the same shall provide for a special
12 building permit fee for each new dwelling unit of fifty dollars
13 per dwelling, apartment or comparable non-residential unit,
14 which amount shall be paid to the volunteer fire company
15 providing primary fire protection to the building or unit
16 thereof for which the permit is issued. No such special building
17 permit shall be required for alterations, repairs or
18 improvements to existing dwellings unless they result in a new
19 dwelling unit.
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21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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