For the administration of the Zoning Ordinance,
a Zoning Officer, who may hold any elective office in the municipality,
shall be appointed. The Zoning Officer shall administer the Zoning
Ordinance in accordance with its literal terms and shall not have
the power to permit any construction or any use or change of use which
does not conform to the Zoning Ordinance.
The Zoning Officer shall identify and register
nonconforming uses and nonconforming structures defined in the Zoning
Ordinance.
All appeals from decisions of the Zoning Officer shall be taken in the manner set forth in Article
XIV of this chapter.
The Borough Council may prescribe reasonable
fees to be charged with respect to the administration of a Zoning
Ordinance. If such fees are adopted, then:
A. Application for a zoning permit shall be accompanied
by two copies of the layout or plot plan and one copy shall be returned
when approved by the Zoning Officer, together with the zoning permit,
upon payment of the prescribed fee.
B. Application for an occupancy permit shall be returned
when approved by the Zoning Officer, together with the occupancy permit,
upon payment of the prescribed fee.
[Amended 4-13-1994 by Ord. No. 492]
Any person, partnership or corporation who or
which shall violate the provisions of any Zoning Ordinance enacted
under this chapter or prior enabling laws shall, upon conviction thereof
in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$500, plus court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. In default
of payment of the fine, such person, the members of such partnership
or the officers of such corporation shall be liable to imprisonment
for not more than 60 days. Each day that a violation is continued
shall constitute a separate offense. All fines collected for the violations
of Zoning Ordinance shall be paid over to the borough whose ordinance
has been violated.
In case any building, structure or land is or
is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted,
maintained or used in violation of any ordinance enacted under this
chapter or prior enabling laws, the Borough Council or, with the approval
of the Borough Council, an officer of the municipality, in addition
to other remedies, may institute in the name of the municipality any
appropriate action or proceeding to prevent, restrain, correct or
abate such building, structure or land or to prevent, in or about
such premises, any act, conduct, business or use constituting a violation.
[Amended 4-13-1994 by Ord. No. 492]
The Borough Council may appropriate from general
funds moneys to administration and enforcement of Zoning Ordinances,
to finance the work of the Zoning Hearing Board and to support or
oppose, upon appeal to the courts, decisions of the Zoning Hearing
Board. For the same purposes, the governing body may accept gifts
and grants of money and services from the county, state and federal
government.
This Article shall not apply to any existing
or proposed building or extension thereof used or to be used by a
public utility corporation if, upon petition of the corporation, the
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission shall, after a public hearing,
decide that the present or proposed situation of the building in question
is reasonably necessary for the convenience or welfare of the public.