This chapter shall not supersede or replace those provisions of the Middletown Township Zoning Ordinance (Chapter
500) and the Middletown Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (Chapter
440) but shall be construed in connection with those ordinances. If there is any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance and/or Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, the most restrictive provision shall prevail.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
HEALTH AUTHORITY
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and
the Bucks County Department of Health.
LICENSE or PERMIT
Written approval as required by the Pennsylvania Department
of Environmental Protection and as required by the Bucks County Department
of Health and as required by the Middletown Township Board of Supervisors,
authorizing a person to operate and maintain a mobile home park.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, contained in one unit, or in two or more units designed
to be joined into one integral unit capable of again being separated
for repeated towing, which arrives at a site complete and ready for
occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations,
and constructed so that it may be used without a permanent foundation.
MOBILE HOME LOT
A parcel of land in a mobile home park, improved with the
necessary utility connections and other appurtenances necessary for
the erection thereon of a single mobile home.
MOBILE HOME PAD
That part of an individual lot which has been reserved for
the placement of a mobile home, appurtenant structures or additions.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so
designated and improved that it contains two or more mobile home lots
for the placement thereon of mobile homes.
PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company,
association or government entity; including a trustee, a receiver,
an assignee or a similar representative.
SERVICE OR RECREATIONAL BUILDING
A structure housing operational, office, recreational, park
maintenance and other facilities built to conform to required local
standards.
SEWER CONNECTION
Consists of all pipes, fittings and appurtenances from the
drain outlet of the mobile home to the inlet of the corresponding
sewer riser pipe.
SEWER RISER PIPE
That portion of the sewer lateral which extends vertically
to the ground elevation and terminates at each mobile home space.
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A.
Penalties. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any provision of this chapter, upon conviction thereof in an action
brought before a Magisterial District Judge in the manner provided
for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules
of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more
than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and
costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that
a violation of this chapter continues or each section of this chapter
which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate
offense.
B.
Revocation or suspension of license. Upon repeated violations
by the same licensee, his rights to the issuance of a license or to
continue operation under a license may be suspended for a fixed term
or permanently revoked, after notice and hearing, subject to the right
of appeal to the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas.