Francis Vineyard
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More than 100 residents filled the seats and lined the walls at Tuesday's Upper Tyrone supervisors' meeting to voice their concerns about the board adopting the updated 2012 International Property Maintenance Code.
With more than 100 residents attending Tuesday's Upper Tyrone Township meeting to show their disgust for big government -- in particular the International Property Maintenance Code -- supervisors passed a motion to abolish adopting the 2012 edition.
Township resident the Rev. Dennis Kletzing began the meeting telling supervisors the code was not only unconstitutional, but unbiblical.
"This right to private property is so ingrained in the Word of God that two out of 10 commandments deal with private property," Kletzing said, adding that there are three amendments in the Bill of Rights that deal with private property.
"We're here tonight because we feel this ordinance restricts our right to do with our private property as we please," he said. "They are unconstitutional and they violate the law of God."
Many individuals were concerned with not being able to do on or with their property as they please.
That concern came after reading advertisements in the newspaper warning residents that with the IPMC the township could fine a resident if they did not have screens in their windows, if the bedrooms in their home were too small or even if the temperature inside their house was too low.
Several residents said the township does not need to be involved in any way with something that is international. Many felt there should be no ordinance at all dealing with codes or private property.
Supervisor Bill Edwards said the property maintenance codes were in place for safety
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