[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of Springfield: Article I, 12-27-1973 by Ord. No. 630. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 12-27-1973 by Ord. No. 630]
Pursuant to § 56502(b) of the First Class Township Code, the codification of a complete body of ordinances for the Township of Springfield, County of Montgomery, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as revised, codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp. and consisting of Chapters 1 through 114, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as a single ordinance of the Township of Springfield which shall be known as the "Code of the Township of Springfield," hereinafter referred to as the "Code."
All provisions of the Code shall be in force and effect on and
after December 27, 1973.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature, adopted by the Township of Springfield and in force on the date of the adoption of this Code, and not contained in the Code, are hereby repealed as of the effective date given in § 1-2 above, except as hereinafter provided.
The adoption of this Code and the repeal of ordinances provided for in § 1-3 of this ordinance shall not affect the following ordinances, rights and obligations which are hereby expressly saved from repeal:
A.
Any
ordinance adopted subsequent to June 13, 1973.
B.
Any
right or liability established, accrued or incurred under any legislative
provision of the township prior to the effective date of this Code
or any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of such right
or liability.
C.
Any
offense or act committed or done before the effective date of this
Code in violation of any legislative provision of the township or
any penalty, punishment or forfeiture which may result therefrom.
D.
Any
prosecution, indictment, action, suit or other proceeding pending,
or any judgment rendered, prior to the effective date of this Code
brought pursuant to any legislative provision of the township.
E.
Any
franchise, license, right, easement or privilege heretofore granted
or conferred by the township.
F.
Any
ordinance providing for the laying out, opening, altering, widening,
relocating, straightening, establishing grade, changing name, improvement,
acceptance or vacation of any right-of-way, easement, street, road,
highway, park or other public place.
G.
Any
ordinance or resolution appropriating money or transferring funds,
promising or guaranteeing the payment of money or authorizing the
issuance and delivery of any bond of the township, or other instruments
or evidence of the township's indebtedness.
H.
Any
ordinance authorizing the purchase, sale, lease or transfer of property,
or any lawful contract or obligation.
I.
Any
ordinance annexing land to the township.
J.
Any
ordinance designating the boundaries of water, sewer or other special
purpose districts.
K.
The
levy or imposition of special assessments or charges.
L.
The
dedication of property.
M.
Any
ordinance amending the Zoning Map which shows the boundaries of zones
created by the Zoning Ordinance adopted December 16, 1940, Ordinance
No. 242, as amended and revised.
All ordinances of a general and permanent nature, adopted subsequent to the date given in § 1-4A and/or prior to the date of adoption of this ordinance, are hereby deemed to be a part of the Code and shall, upon being printed, be included therein. Attested copies of all such legislation shall be temporarily placed in the Code until printed supplements are included.
A.
In
compiling and preparing the ordinances of the township for adoption
and revision as part of the Code, certain grammatical changes and
other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It
is the intention of the Board of Commissioners that all such changes
be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had
been previously formally amended to read as such.
B.
Certain
changes and revisions of a substantive nature were made to various
ordinances found within the Code. These changes were made to bring
the provisions into conformity with the desired policies of the Board
of Commissioners, and it is the intent of the Board of Commissioners
that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances
so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such. Such
changes and revisions are cited within the historical statements by
the term "amended at time of adoption of Code."
Three copies of the Code in a post-bound volume shall be filed
with the ordinance book in the office of the Township Secretary and
shall remain there for use and examination by the public. Upon adoption,
such copies shall be certified to by the Township Secretary, as provided
by law, and such certified copies shall remain on file in the office
of the Township Secretary, available to persons desiring to examine
the same during all times while said Code is in effect.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements
to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the
intention of the Board of Commissioners to be a part thereof, shall
be deemed to be incorporated into such Code so that reference to the
Code shall be understood and intended to include such changes. Whenever
such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall
be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder,
inserted in the post-bound book containing said Code, as amendments
and supplements thereto.
It shall be the duty of the Township Secretary, or someone authorized
and directed by him, to keep up-to-date the certified copies of the
book containing the Code required to be filed in the office of the
Township Secretary for the use of the public. All changes in said
Code and all ordinances adopted by the Board of Commissioners subsequent
to the effective date of this codification, which the Board of Commissioners
shall adopt specifically as part of the Code, shall, when finally
adopted, be included therein by reference until such changes or new
ordinances are printed as supplements to said Code book, at which
time such supplements shall be inserted therein.
Copies of the book containing the Code may be purchased from
the Township Secretary upon the payment of a fee to be set by resolution
of the Board of Commissioners, which may also arrange, by resolution,
for procedures for the periodic supplementation thereof.
The Township Secretary, pursuant to law, shall cause to be published
in the manner required a notice of the introduction and of the adoption
of this Code in a newspaper of general circulation in the township.
Sufficient copies of the code shall be maintained in the office of
the Township Secretary for inspection by the public at all times during
regular office hours. The enactment and application of this Code,
coupled with the publication of the notices of introduction and adoption
as required by law and the availability of copies of the Code for
inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to
be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all
purposes.
Each section of this Code, and every part of each section, is
an independent section or part of a section, and the holding of any
section, or a part thereof, to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective
for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality
of any other section or part thereof.
[Amended 7-13-1988 by Ord. No. 756]
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend,
by additions or deletions, any part or portion thereof, or to alter
or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause
the law of the township to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone violating
this section of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction in
a summary proceeding before any District Justice, to a fine of not
more than $600 and costs of prosecution.
