Borough Ordinances
Access is provided to the Hulmeville Borough Ordinances for information only. The ordinances available on this website are not the official copy and should not be used as a justification for any action. Please contact the Borough Secretary if you need the latest, official copy of an ordinance.
We are in the process of scanning additional ordinances and making them available. However, this is a work in progress and is not yet complete. If you have a question about whether an ordinance exists for a particular subject, please contact the borough secretary (secretary@hulmeville-pa.gov) or borough manager (manager@hulmeville-pa.gov). In addition to emailing, you can call the borough office (215-757-6531).
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- Code of Ordinances (Ordinance 223 - codified 2002) as amended
- Cover, table of contents, and forward, including Ord 223 - Adoption (including fees)
- Chap 1 - Administration
- Chap 2 - Animals (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 3 - Bicycles (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 4 - Buildings
- Chap 5 - Code Enforcement (Property Maintenance Code)
- Chap 6 - Conduct
- Chap 7 - Fire Prevention and Fire Protection
- Chap 8 - Floodplains (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 9 - Grading and excavating (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 10 - Health and safety
- Chap 11 - Housing (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 12 - Libraries (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 13 - Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations
- Chap 14 - Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 15 - Motor Vehicles
- Chap 16 - Parks and Recreation (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 17 - Planned Residential Development (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 18 - Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Chap 19 - Signs and Billboards (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 20 - Solid Waste
- Chap 21 - Streets and sidewalks
- Chap 22 - Subdivision and land development
- Chap 23 - Swimming Pools (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 24 - Taxation-special
- Chap 25 - Trees (Reserved to accommodate future ordinances)
- Chap 26 - Water
- Chap 27 - Zoning (see below)
- Appendices
- A - Annexation of Terriotory
- B - Bond Issues and Loans
- C - Franchises and Services
- D - Governmental and Intergovernmental Affairs
- E - Plan Approval
- F - Public Property
- G - Sewers
- H - Streets and Sidewalks
- I - Water
- J - Zoning; Prior Ordinances
- Key to the Disposition of All Ordinances
- Index
- Zoning Ordinances (Chap 27 of Code of Ordinances)
- Cover, Enactment, and Table of Contents
- Part 1 - Title, Purpose, and Jurisdiction
- Part 2 - Definitions
- Part 3 - Establishment of Districts
- Part 4 - Use Regulations
- Part 5 - Districts
- Part 6 - Dimensional Requirements
- Part 7 - Performance Standards
- Part 8 - Signs
- Part 9 - Off-Street Parking and Loading
- Part 10 - Nonconformities
- Part 11 - Administration
- Part 12 - Zoning hearing board
- Part 13 - Amendment and Appeals
- Part 14 - Enforcement
- Appendix A - Table of Permitted Uses
- Appendix B - Requirements for Transportation Impact Study
- Appendix - Hulmeville Borough Floodplain Map
- Appendix - Hulmeville Borough Zoning Ordinance Map
- Additional Ordinances
The current version of the zoning ordinances was adopted by the Borough Council at it's regular monthly meeting on August 6, 2012.
Section 27-703, covering the floodplain regulations, was updated in March 2015 by borough ordinance 265. The updated ordinance can be viewed separately or within Part 7 of the zoning ordinances.
The zoning ordinance is an extensive document, totalling over 200 pages and over 2 Mb in size. The links on this page allow you to view, and save or print, the entire zoning ordinance section by section. Click here to download the entire zoning ordinances in one file.
A number of ordinances have been passed by Borough Council since the last codification of the borough ordinances. The following are some, but not all, of these ordinances.
| Number | Topic | Adopted | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 232 | Dangerous Structures | February 7, 2005 | ||
| 252 | Stormwater Management | September 12, 2022 | ||
| 278 | Property Maintenance Code | July 12, 2021 |