[Adopted 5-13-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-1]
The Board of Supervisors of Lehigh Township approve and adopt the codification
of all Lehigh Township Ordinances into a single volume which shall be known
as the "Code of the Township of Lehigh."
The provisions of this ordinance shall be severable, and if any provision
hereof shall be declared unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such decision
shall not affect the validity of any of the remaining provisions of this ordinance.
It is hereby declared as a legislative intent of the Township that this ordinance
would have been amended as if such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid provision
or provisions had not been included herein.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.
[Adopted 5-13-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-1]
The penalty and fine provisions of all ordinances of the Township of
Lehigh which regulate building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire,
public safety, parking, solicitation, curfew, and water and/or noise pollution
are hereby amended and shall be enforced as summary offenses under the Pennsylvania
Rules of Criminal Procedure, pursuant to the mandate of Act 172 of 1996 (53
P.S. § 66601). Any person who shall violate any ordinance listed
and described above shall be subject, upon being found guilty thereof before
a District Justice in a summary criminal proceeding commenced by this Township,
to pay a fine not to exceed $1,000 per violation and to undergo imprisonment
in the Northampton County Prison for a term not to exceed 90 days for each
violation.
Penalties for violation of any Township ordinance not regulated under §
1-17 above or other applicable statute shall be enforced as a civil proceeding and violators shall be subject, upon being found guilty thereof before a District Justice, to pay a fine not to exceed $600 per violation.
A separate offense shall arise for each day or portion thereof in which
a violation is found to exist or for each section of the ordinance which is
found to have been violated.