The Fair Housing Act Design Manual is hereby adopted by reference as
the required minimum design standards for federally sponsored rehabilitation
of existing residential properties within the Township of Patterson. A copy
of said design standards is on file at the office of the Township Secretary,
1800 Dixon Way, Beaver Falls, 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 time.
The minimum design standards set forth in the Fair Housing Act Design
Manual aforesaid and therein identified as "required provisions" shall be
deemed mandatory requirements. Those minimum design standards set forth in
said Fair Housing Act Design Manual and therein identified as "guides" shall
be deemed optional on the part of program participants.
[Amended 2-8-1996 by Ord. No. 348]
Any person, partnership or corporation violating any provision of this
article or who shall make any false statement in any application for the permit
required hereunder, or who shall 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
$1,000 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 in the county jail for a period not exceeding
30 days.