[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Masontown 10-25-1971 by Ord. No. 249, approved 10-28-1971. Section 47-1 amended and
§ 47-4 added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
A certain document, a copy of which is on file in the office
of the Secretary of the Borough of Masontown, being marked and designated
as the "BOCA Basic/National Building Code/1986, Ninth Edition," as
published by the Building Officials and Code Administrators International,
Inc., be and is hereby adopted as the Building Code of the Borough
of Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, for the control of buildings
and structures as herein provided; and each and all of the regulations,
provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of the BOCA Basic/National
Building Code/1986, Ninth Edition, are hereby referred to, adopted
and made a part hereof as if fully set out in this chapter with the
additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in
this chapter.[2]
Wherever any provision or requirement of the regulations of
the Department of Labor and Industry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
is more stringent or stricter than a provision or requirement of this
chapter, the applicable provision or requirement of the regulations
of the said Department of Labor and Industry shall supersede any such
provision or requirement of this chapter.
Nothing in this chapter or in the Building Code hereby adopted
shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding pending in any
court or any rights acquired or liability incurred or any cause or
causes of action acquired or existing under any act or ordinance hereby
repealed, nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character
be lost, impaired or affected by this chapter.
Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof before
the District Justice of said borough, be punishable by a fine of not
more than $300 and costs of such proceedings or, upon default of payment
of such fine and costs, by imprisonment in the county jail for a term
of not more than 30 days; provided, however, that if the District
Justice determines that the defendant is without the financial means
to pay the fines and costs immediately or in a single remittance,
such defendant shall be permitted to pay the fines or costs in installments
and over such periods of time as the District Justice deems to be
just.
