Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 16957. Registration of real estate in Philadelphia; lien to be recorded against registered owner

The duty of registering real estate, in the city of Philadelphia, shall hereafter devolve upon the purchaser, devisee by will, the person to whom an allotment in partition shall have been made, or their agent, and they shall be required to present their deeds, or title papers, at the registry bureau, so that the same may be endorsed, in accordance with the act of assembly to which this is supplementary;  1 and all owners of real estate, in the said city, not registered as by law directed, are required forthwith to do so, and if, after three months' notice, by public advertisement, in at least five daily papers of said city (two of which shall be German), and a written or printed notice shall have been served on the owner, or owners, and they shall fail to have such record made, then and in that case, they shall be subject to a fine of five dollars for such neglect, and in case the same is neglected for the space of six months a lien for the accumulated fines and costs shall be filed and collected, as municipal claims are now or may hereafter be by law collected; the said fines to be paid into the city treasury; and further, no property, so returned, shall be subject to sale for taxes or other municipal claims thereafter to accrue, as a lien of record thereon, except in the name of the owner as returned, and after recovery by suit, and service of the writ on him, made as in case of a summons.