The controls of this chapter of the Brecknock Township Code
shall be enforced in accordance with the procedures established by
this article, as may be amended.
The powers and duties of enforcement of the controls of this
chapter hereby are assigned to the Township Zoning Officer or such
other officer of the Township as designated by the Board of Supervisors
as the enforcement officer.
Any person who has violated or permitted the violation of the
provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor
in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the Township, pay a
judgment of not more than $500, plus all court costs, including the
reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Township as a result
thereof. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or be payable
until the date of the determination of a violation by the District
Justice. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment,
the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable rules
of civil procedure. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute
a separate violation, unless a District Justice determining that there
has been a violation further determines that there was a good-faith
basis for the person violating this chapter to have believed that
there was no such violation, in which event there shall be deemed
to have been only one such violation until the fifth day following
the date of the determination of a violation by the District Justice,
and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute
a separate violation. All judgments, costs and reasonable attorneys'
fees collected for the violation of this chapter shall be paid over
to the Township for the general use of the Township.
An appeal from a decision or action of the Board of Supervisors
or of the enforcement officer in matters pertaining to this chapter
shall be made to the Zoning Hearing Board in accordance with the procedures
established by Article XI of the Township Zoning Ordinance, as may
be amended, and in Article IX of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning
Code.