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Yeadon's Lead Inspection Ordinance (2024-015): What We've Confirmed, and What the Borough Hasn't Published
Yeadon passed a lead inspection ordinance in January 2025. Here's exactly what's confirmed from the borough's own records - and what still hasn't been published, 18 months later.
Published August 13, 2026 · Yeadon, PA
On January 16, 2025, Yeadon Borough Council unanimously adopted Ordinance 2024-015, “Lead Inspections Established.” The borough's own legislative-meeting minutes record the vote plainly:
“Motion to adopt Ordinance number 2024-015: Lead Inspections Established. Moved By: Councilor Johnson Seconded By: Councilor Peets Motion Passed: Unanimous.”
Source: Yeadon Borough Council, January 16, 2025 legislative meeting minutes (2025)
What we know for certain
Yeadon is the third Delaware County municipality to pass a lead ordinance, after East Lansdowne (2022) and Chester (2023). Mayor Rohan Hepkins publicly championed it: “Yeadon knows its children and their long-term safety are a high priority…” Delaware County Health Department Director Lora Siegmann Werner went further, urging every other municipality in the county to follow:
“We urge every other Delaware County municipality to follow Yeadon's lead and pass a similar ordinance.”
Source: Lora Siegmann Werner, Director, Delaware County Health Department (2025)
The Delco context
Yeadon ranks 4th among Delaware County municipalities for the number of children testing positive for lead, according to Delaware County Health Department data cited by the PA Lead-Free Promise Project – no independently published DCHD municipal table exists to verify that ranking directly, so we keep the same attribution chain the department's own data used.
Source: Delaware County Health Department data, cited by PA Lead-Free Promise Project (2025)
For county-wide scale: 285 Delaware County children ages 0–71 months had a confirmed elevated blood lead level in 2023, out of only 23.75% of that age group tested county-wide – meaning the true number of affected children is very likely undercounted, not just underreported.
Source: PA Dept. of Health, 2023 Childhood Lead Surveillance Annual Report, Table 12 (2023)
What we could not find
Stated plainly, not hedged: the ordinance's own text has never been published
As of this writing, Ordinance 2024-015's full operative text has not been published anywhere online – not on the borough's own website, and not codified on eCode360, where the rest of Yeadon's municipal code lives. Along with it, we could not locate:
- A lead-specific inspection or certification fee.
- An effective or phase-in date beyond the January 16, 2025 adoption date.
- Any approved-performer or credential language stating who may perform the inspection.
This is not a gap in our research. The borough's own Forms & Applications page lists a Rental Application Form, Rental Inspection Requirements, a Resale Certificate / Transfer Certificate of Occupancy application, Resale Inspection Requirements, a Violation Appeals Form, and a Foreclosure / Vacant Property Registration form – and nothing lead-specific among them, unusual for an ordinance now well over a year old.
Source: Yeadon Borough, Forms & Applications (2026)
The borough's most recently published fee schedule, effective October 2024, predates the ordinance by three months and has no lead-inspection line item. A later fee-schedule amendment, Resolution 2026-011, passed April 16, 2026 – its updated text was not locatable, so whether it added a lead-cert fee is genuinely unknown to us, not something we're withholding.
What that means practically for a Yeadon landlord today
We reviewed every legislative-meeting minutes document from the ordinance's adoption through the most recent available – January 16, 2025 through June 18, 2026, seven sets in all. The ordinance is never mentioned again after its own adoption vote, in any Ordinances & Zoning report, Code Department report, or Manager's Report in that window.
That silence sits alongside real, growing code-enforcement infrastructure in the same period. The borough swore in Lamont Collins II as a dedicated Code Enforcement Officer at its February 19, 2026 meeting. The Code Department reported 69 violation notices, 11 resale inspections, and 14 rental inspections for December 2025 alone, resulting in five citations. In March 2026, council adopted two further rental- and commercial-inspection ordinances tightening that regime.
Source: Yeadon Borough Council legislative meeting minutes, reviewed January 2025 through June 2026 (2026)
The most defensible read: lead-safe compliance is most likely folded procedurally into the rental-licensing and resale-inspection workflow Yeadon already runs, using the same inspectors and the same site visits – it just has not yet been broken out publicly as its own line item. That is a real, if quiet, enforcement path, not evidence the ordinance is being ignored.
If an inspection turns up something that needs fixing before it passes, free and low-cost remediation funding exists for Delaware County landlords – see our guide to remediation help in Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties.
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