The requirements of all zoning districts shall be modified in accordance with the provisions of this chapter on all land designated as having a slope of 8% or more, as delineated by the Soil Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, in the maps and data comprising the most recent soil survey of Bucks County or that land indicated as having a slope of 8% or more on a detailed topographical map taken from field surveys and giving elevations at intervals of 10 feet or less and prepared by a land surveyor or engineer licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and bearing his seal.
The following words and phrases, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is required by the context:
DISTURBANCE OF VEGETATIVE GROUND COVER The removal, destruction or damaging of plants, including trees, grasses, shrubs and flowers, by methods including but not limited to cutting, bulldozing, plowing, regrading, digging or widespread use of herbicides, unless such vegetative ground cover is immediately replaced by like materials of a domestic or cultivated nature, usually found in the vicinity of residential dwellings.
[Amended 8-2-1988 by Ord. No. 88-6]
Any person, partnership, corporation or entity violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon summary conviction before a District Justice, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600, plus the costs of prosecution. In default of payment of said fine, said person, the partners of said partnership or the officers and directors of said corporation shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment in the Bucks County Prison for a period not exceeding 30 days. All fines collected for such violations shall be paid over to the Township. Each period of 30 days that a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense.