The penalty for the violation of any ordinance
shall be that prescribed by Council for each violation. However, any
ordinance may provide that for continuing violations, each day that
a violation exists may be regarded as a separate offense and punishable
as such. The limit of fines may be increased by the Council to the
extent of the maximum fine that may be levied by any non-charter municipality
in the Commonwealth as that limit is from time to time established
by the General Assembly.
All ordinances and resolutions shall promptly
be entered verbatim in permanent separate record books for ordinances
and resolutions. It shall not be necessary, however, to record in
the ordinance book the full text of any ordinance where there is a
specific provision in General Law permitting adoption and recording
by reference, or in the case of any ordinance adopting, with or without
amendment or modification, any building code, plumbing code or other
code complete in itself, for the regulation of any trade, occupation
or line of activity or undertaking, but the ordinance adopting the
same by reference shall be entered and the entry shall indicate where
the complete code or ordinance is available for record. These books
shall be in the custody and control of the Borough Secretary and all
entries made therein shall be at the direction of the Secretary. A
certified copy of all enacted ordinances shall be forwarded to the
Chester County Law Library.
The general codification of Borough ordinances
and resolutions existing at the time this Charter becomes effective
shall be adopted by the Council by ordinance or incorporated by reference
and shall be updated annually in bound or loose-leaf form, together
with this Charter and any amendments thereto, pertinent provisions
of the Constitution and General Law, and such other rules and regulations
as the Council may specify. This compilation shall be known and cited
officially as the Code of the Borough of West Chester. Copies of this
compilation shall be furnished to Borough officials, and shall be
made available for free public reference within the Borough, and for
purchase by the public at a reasonable price fixed by Council.