Borough Ordinance Update: In 2018 borough council had the company General Code do a review of the borough ordinances. General Code specializes in codifying municipality laws by putting them in an orderly form. Codification allows your local legislation to be gathered by topic and systematically arranged into an accurate and enforceable code of laws. Your municipal code clearly articulates a unique legislative framework that enables everyone in your community to live and work safely, productively and with mutual respect. Codification also helps to deter the municipal legislative body from enacting redundant or inconsistent new ordinances, and lets the council or board view the body of law as a whole and note any gaps in coverage which may need legislation. The result of the General Code review was a seven-page report giving the disposition status of all the materials submitted. The original report is General Code Ordinance Disposition List. A lot of the items ended up being identified as NCM, Not Code Material (legislation is not general or permanent in nature). Most items fell into 5 categories. The borough website administrator took the original report and converted it into an Excel spreadsheet. Council members can easily work with this file format. That full converted listing can be found in a PDF report here: NF Ordinance Disposition Master List 16 Jul 2020. If one reviews the report, you’ll find seven different sections. In Section 5 are items identified in the General Code report that appear to be valid code material. There are 54 items in this category. Each of these items needs to be reviewed and acted on by the borough council. These items can be kept as is, update, or cancelled as need be. Two of these items are currently listed on the borough website on the Ordinance page. A PDF version of this subset is here: NF Ordinance Disposition Section 5 Subset List 16 Jul 2020. Council has set up a subcommittee to review all these items and determine the proper course of action for each item. An interesting historical tidbit is the first unnumbered ordinance that was enacted on the 7th of December 1869. Its title is: Governing of New Florence Borough. This appears to be the creation of governing body for New Florence. Over time Section 5 will result in more ordinances being clarified within the borough laws. As those laws are updated their disposition will be clarified on the website. If you have any questions on the above information, please contact a member of the borough council.
The New Florence borough council is in the process of having the existing ordinances codified. This is a multi-year process where all existing borough ordinances are reviewed for compliance with existing federal and state law, updated when required, rescinded where appropriate, then organized into a set of local laws. When completed the entire set of ordinances will be posted online. For now, residents of New Florence can find sets of the ordinances either in the borough building or in the town library.
The list below started out with only a few ordinances being available online. In February 2022 over 30 more ordinances were added to the list. Many documents had to be scanned from old hard copies so the quality is not as good as an electronically sourced document Please see the list below. Click on each link to read the ordinance in its entirety. More ordinances will be added in the future as the archives are searched and the documents validated.
- Ordinance No. 1, GOVERNING OF NEW FLORENCE BOROUGH – 1869
- Ordinance No. 43, WIDTH OF SIDEWALKS AND LOCATION OF PORCHES
- Ordinance No. 44, PROHIBITION ON EXPLOSIVES AND FIREWORKS
- Ordinance No. 45, REGULATING GASOLINE, SERVICE, AND REPAIR STATIONS WITHIN THE BOROUGH
- Ordinance No. 69, PROHIBITING LITTERING
- Ordinance No. 80, PARKING AND SPEEDING REGULATIONS
- Ordinance No. 95, REGULATING WATER TAPS AND LINES
- Ordinance No. 96, COVERING OR CHANGING CURB WATER BOXES
- Ordinance No. 106, CREATION OF NEW FLORENCE RECREATION BOARD
- Ordinance No. 108, REQUIREMENT FOR NUMBERING HOUSES AND BUILDINGS
- Ordinance No. 114, PROHIBITING THE PARKING OF TRUCKS AND BUSES ON BOROUGH STREETS
- Ordinance No. 115, MINIMUM LOT SIZE FOR DWELLING AND MOBILE HOMES
- Ordinance No. 119, COMBINING OF SECRETARY AND TREASURER OFFICE POSITIONS
- Ordinance No. 130, DESIGNATING THE NEW FLORENCE COMMUNITY LIBRARY AS AN AGENT OF THE BOROUGH
- Ordinance No. 137, PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION
- Ordinance No. 141 , AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE NO. 137 BURN TIMES
- Ordinance No. 147, PROHIBITING THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN PUBLIC
- Ordinance No. 149, FINES AND PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF PARKING RESTRICTIONS WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF NEW FLORENCE
- Ordinance No. 155, REGULATING PARKING IN FRONT OF THE POST OFFICE
- Ordinance No. 158, PROHIBITING THE SALE OR DISPLAY OF OBSCENE MATERIALS
- Ordinance No. 161, PROHIBITING AND REGULATING THE KEEPING AND RUNNING AT LARGE OF LIVESTOCK AND FOWL AND OTHER ANIMALS WITHIN THE BOROUGH
- Ordinance No. 167, DECLARING A PORTION OF 18TH STREET ONE-WAY
- Ordinance No. 175, PROHIBITING THE ACCUMULATION, BURYING AND BURNING OF GARBAGE AND OTHER REFUSE MATERIALS UPON PRIVATE PROPERTY
- Ordinance No. 177, PROHIBITING PARKING ON A PORTION OF LIGONIER STREET
- Ordinance No. 181, PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS AND ENCROACHMENTS ON SIDEWALKS
- Ordinance No. 185, AUTHORIZES AUDIT OF ALL NEW FLORENCE AUDITS
- Ordinance No. 189, NEW FLORENCE BOROUGH DANGEROUS STRUCTURE ORDINANCE
- Ordinance No. 195, NEW FLORENCE BOROUGH CURFEW ORDINANCE
- Ordinance No. 199, MANDATORY SANITARY SEWER LINE CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS
- Ordinance No. 200, ADOPTION OF THE UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE WITHIN THE NEW FLORENCE BOROUGH
- Ordinance No. 203, PROHIBITING THE RUNNING OF LARGE CATS AND DOGS, APPOINTMENT OF AN ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER, AND SEIZURE OF ANIMALS
- Ordinance No. 204, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 203, CATS AND DOGS
- Ordinance No. 206, REGULATING THE INSTALLATION AND USE OF OUTDOOR FURNANCES
- Ordinance No. 207, AUTHORITY TO REMOVE AND IMPOUND ABANDONED VEHICLES
- Ordinance No. 210, ESTABLISHMENT OF A MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT PLAN
- Ordinance No. 213, NUISANCES RELATING TO GRASS, WEEDS, AND OTHER VEGETATION AND RUBBISH, GARBAGE, WASTE, AND DEBRIS
- Ordinance No. 1 of 2018, FIRE INSURANCE ESCROW ORDINANCE
- Ordinance No. 1 of 2019, STOP SIGNS, ESTABLISHMENT AND PENALTIES
- Ordinance No. 1 of 2021, PURCHASE OF POLICE SERVICES FROM ST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP
- Ordinance No. 2 of 2021, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE. A hardcopy version of this document is available for review at the borough office.
- Ordinance No. 2 of 2021 Color Appendices, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE (subset of the document where the appendices are in color).
- Ordinance No. 3 of 2021, BUDGET AND REAL ESTATE TAX RATE FOR 2022
- Ordinance No. 1 of 2022, VEHICLE BRAKE RETARDER RESTRICTIONS
- Ordinance No. 2 of 2022, CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER CREATION AND AUTHORIZATION
- Ordinance No. 3 of 2022, LAND BANK ORDINANCE
- Ordinance No. 4 of 2022, BUDGET AND REAL ESTATE TAX RATE FOR 2023
- Ordinance No. 1 of 2024, NEW FLORENCE BOROUGH PROPERTY MAINTENANCE – MINIMUM REGULATORY PROVISIONS
Code Enforcement Officer
Ordinance No. 2 of 2022 – CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER CREATION AND AUTHORIZATION was enacted by the borough council on 20 September 2022. Mayor Ed Craft was appointed as the Code Enforcement Officer during that same September 2022 borough council meeting.
Building Numbers
Borough residences and businesses are required to be numbered. Numerals are to be no less than two (2) inches high and visible from the street the house or place of business faces. Please see Ordinance No. 108 above if needed.