[Adopted 8-11-1980 by Ord. No. 73]
The Minimum Design Standards for Rehabilitation for Residential Properties,
as set forth in the Program Participants and Department of Housing and Urban
Development Handbook No. 4940.4 are hereby adopted by reference as the required
minimum design standards for federally sponsored rehabilitation of existing
residential properties within the Township of Brighton. A copy of said Design
Standards is on file at the office of the Township Police Department, 2295
Tuscarawas Road, Beaver, Pennsylvania, and may be examined during business
days, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
prevailing times.
The minimum design standards set forth in HUD Handbook No. 4940.4 aforesaid,
and therein identified as "Required Provisions," shall be deemed mandatory
requirements. Those minimum design standards set forth in said HUD Handbook
No. 4940.4, and therein identified as "Guides," shall be deemed optional on
the part of program participants.
Any person, partnership or corporation violating any provision of this
article or who or which shall make any false statement in any application
for the permit required hereunder or do any work of rehabilitation in substantial
deviation from the mandatory requirements of the Minimum Design Standards
herewith adopted or the permit approving the same shall, upon conviction thereof
in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300
and, in default of payment of the fine or penalty imposed and the costs, such
person, the members of such partnership or the officers of such corporation
may be committed to incarceration for a period not exceeding 30 days.