STATUTORY REFERENCES
Penalties for ordinance — See
53 P.S. § 66601.
[Ord. 330. Passed 8-19-1996]
(a)
Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the
provisions of this Building and Housing Code relating to building,
housing, property maintenance, health, fire or public safety, or relating
to water, air or noise pollution, including any provision of any standard,
technical or other code adopted by reference in this Building and
Housing Code, and including any rule or regulation promulgated under
authority of such standard, technical or other code adopted by reference
in this Building and Housing Code, or under authority of state law,
for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be liable to a civil
fine of not more than $1,000. For violation of or noncompliance with
any other provision of this Building and Housing Code, the offender
shall be liable to a civil fine of not more than $600. Unless otherwise
provided, a separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during
or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues. The
penalty provided for herein shall be in addition to any fee, deposit,
charge, surcharge, interest, insurance requirement or equitable remedy
provided in this Building and Housing Code, or in any standard, technical
or other code adopted by reference in this Building and Housing Code,
or in any rule or regulation promulgated under authority of any such
standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in this Building
and Housing Code or under authority of state law.
(b)
Every person who commits or aids or abets in the commission
of any act declared in this Building and Housing Code to be an offense,
whether individually or in connection with another person, or as principal,
agent or accessory, shall be guilty of such offense. Every person
who falsely, fraudulently, forcibly or willfully induces, causes,
coerces, requires, permits or directs another to violate any provision
of this Building and Housing Code shall likewise be guilty of such
offense.
(c)
From the effective date of this chapter, all procedures
set forth in the Township Code that enforce the Township ordinances
and all penalty clauses in ordinances of the Township of Lower Gwynedd
are hereby amended to refer only to civil procedures and civil penalties
pursuant to Section 1601(c) of the Second Class Township Code[1] and may be enforced pursuant to that section. All penalty
provisions and terms in the several ordinances of the Township of
Lower Gwynedd shall be deemed to refer to civil violations rather
than criminal violations. Police officers of the Township or the Code
Enforcement Officer of the Township shall initiate civil enforcement
proceedings as required to achieve compliance with each Township ordinance.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 66601.
