PRINTER'S NO. 1333
No. 1179 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY MILLER, DEMPSEY, HENNESSEY, SANTONI, GEIST, FARGO,
FICHTER, RUBLEY, VAN HORNE, YOUNGBLOOD, WOZNIAK AND
CAPPABIANCA, MARCH 16, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MARCH 16, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 23, 1931 (P.L.932, No.317), entitled
2 "An act relating to cities of the third class; and amending,
3 revising, and consolidating the law relating thereto,"
4 further providing for building and housing ordinance
5 penalties.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 4131 of the act of June 23, 1931
9 (P.L.932, No.317), known as The Third Class City Code, reenacted
10 and amended June 28, 1951 (P.L.662, No.164) and amended July 29,
11 1971 (P.L.250, No.61), is amended to read:
12 Section 4131. Form of Building Ordinance, Housing Ordinance;
13 Passage; Penalties.--The building ordinance, the housing
14 ordinance, the fire prevention ordinance, the electrical
15 ordinance and the plumbing ordinance may adopt any standard or
16 nationally recognized building code, any standard or nationally
17 recognized housing code, any standard or nationally recognized
18 fire prevention code, or any standard or nationally recognized
19 electrical code, or any standard or nationally recognized
1 plumbing code, or any variations or changes or parts thereof,
2 published and printed in book form, covering any or all of the
3 above items, without incorporating such code in the ordinance,
4 or any city may enact any such building code, housing code, fire
5 prevention code, electrical code, or plumbing code, or any
6 changes or variations or parts thereof, as its building
7 ordinance, as its housing ordinance, as its fire prevention
8 code, as its electrical code or as its plumbing code. In either
9 event, the building ordinance or code, the housing ordinance or
10 code, the fire prevention ordinance or code, the electrical
11 ordinance or code, and the plumbing ordinance or code, or any
12 changes or variations or parts thereof, need not be advertised
13 after passage, but notice of its consideration, in reasonable
14 detail shall be published as required by section one thousand
15 fourteen of this act. Not less than three copies of the building
16 ordinance, the housing ordinance, the fire prevention ordinance,
17 the electrical ordinance or the plumbing ordinance adopted by
18 council shall be made available to public inspection and use
19 during business hours for at least three months after its
20 adoption. The building ordinance, the housing ordinance, the
21 fire prevention ordinance, the electrical ordinance, and the
22 plumbing ordinance may provide proper fines and penalties [not
23 exceeding three hundred dollars for violations thereof.]
24 consistent with the provisions of clause 60 of section 2403. The
25 procedure herein set forth relating to the adoption of such
26 building ordinances, housing ordinances, fire prevention
27 ordinances, electrical ordinances and plumbing ordinances may
28 likewise be adopted in amending, supplementing or repealing any
29 of the provisions of such ordinances.
30 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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