[Amended 10-24-2005 by Ord. No. 05-048; 2-7-2006 by Ord. No. 06-004]
For violation of any provision of this Code
or other ordinance of the Township of Manchester, unless a specific
penalty is otherwise provided in connection with the provision violated,
the maximum penalty upon conviction of the violation shall be one
or more of the following: imprisonment in the county jail or in any
place provided by the municipality for the detention of prisoners,
for any term not exceeding 90 days; or by a fine not exceeding $2,000
per day as long as the violation continues; or by a period of community
service not exceeding 90 days. If the violation is pertaining to unlawful
solid waste disposal, anyone violating the same shall be subject,
upon conviction, to a minimum penalty which shall be imposed which
shall consist of a fine which may be fixed at an amount not exceeding
$2,500 or a maximum penalty by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
[Amended 8-22-2022 by Ord. No. 22-27]
The Township Council may prescribe that for
the violation of any particular provision of the Code or of any particular
ordinance at least a minimum penalty shall be imposed which shall
consist of a fine which may be fixed at an amount not exceeding $500.
The court before which any person is convicted of violating any ordinance
or Code provision shall have power to impose any fine, term of punishment,
or period of community service not less than the minimum and not exceeding
the maximum fixed in the Code or such ordinance.
Any person who is convicted of violating this
Code or an ordinance within one year of the date of a previous violation
of the same provision of this Code or of the same ordinance and who
was fined for the previous violation, shall be sentenced by a court
to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed
by the court upon a person for a repeated offense shall not be less
than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation
of the ordinance or Code provision, but shall be calculated separately
from the fine imposed for the violation of the ordinance or Code provision.
Any person convicted of the violation of any
provision of this Code or any ordinance may, in the discretion of
the court by which he was convicted, and in default of the payment
of any fine imposed therefor, be imprisoned in the county jail or
place of detention provided by the Township, for any term not exceeding
90 days, or be required to perform community service for a period
not exceeding 90 days.
Except as otherwise provided, each and every
day in which a violation of any provision of this Code or any other
ordinance of the Township exists shall constitute a separate violation.
The maximum penalty stated in this article is
not intended to state an appropriate penalty for each and every violation.
At the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court, any lesser
penalty, including a nominal penalty or no penalty at all, may be
appropriate for a particular case or violation.