[Ord. 1113, 1/19/2010]
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which, being the
owner or agent of the owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land, shall
lay out, construct, open or dedicate any street, sanitary sewer, storm
sewer, water main or other improvements for public use, travel or
other purposes or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting
thereon, or who sells, transfers or agrees or enters into an agreement
to sell any land in a subdivision and/or land development, whether
by reference to or by other use of a plat of such subdivision and/or
land development, or erects any building thereon, unless and until
a final plat has been prepared in full compliance with the provisions
of this chapter and has been recorded as provided herein, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof, such person,
or the members of such partnerships, or the officers of such corporation,
or the agents of any of them responsible for such violation shall
pay a fine not exceeding $1,000 per lot or parcel or per dwelling
within each lot or parcel. All fines collected for such violations
shall be paid over to the Borough. The description by metes and bounds
in the instruments of transfer or other document used in the process
of transferring shall not exempt the seller or transferor from such
penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
[Ord. 1113, 1/19/2010]
The provisions of this chapter are severable; and if any section,
clause, sentence, part or provision thereof shall be held illegal,
invalid, or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction,
such decision of the court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining
sections, clauses, sentences, parts or provisions of this chapter.
It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Borough Council that
this chapter would have been adopted if such illegal, invalid or unconstitutional
section, clause, part or provision had not been included herein.
