§ 101.1 SHORT TITLE shall be amended by inserting
"Greenville Borough, Mercer County, Pennsylvania."
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§ 103.5 FEES shall provide as follows:
The fees for activities and services performed by Greenville's
designated code officials, in carrying out responsibilities under
this code shall be established, from time to time, by resolution of
Greenville Borough Council.
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§ 106.4. PENALTY is amended to read:
Any person who shall violate a provision of this code, or fail
to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements thereof, and
any person aiding, abetting, or assisting in any such violation, shall
be guilty of a summary offense, punishable by a fine of not less than
$50 and not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding 90 days,
or both such fine and imprisonment, together with the prosecution
for each offense. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute
a fine of not less than $5 and not more than $10. All fines and penalties
received by the Borough for enforcement of this code shall be paid
to the Treasurer of the Borough of Greenville.
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§ 106.4.1 REPEAT OFFENDER VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES;
NOTICE OF VIOLATION AND APPEAL PROCEDURES is added to read:
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A.
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The Code Enforcement Officer shall only be required to provide
one notice per property for each type of violation during a three-hundred-sixty-five-day
period. Failure to comply with the written notice from the Code Enforcement
Officer in a timely manner on any subsequent violations, of the same
type, occurring within a three-hundred-sixty-five-day period shall
be actionable.
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B.
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In the event that the violation is abated after notice and there
is more than one violation of the same type in any three-hundred-sixty-five-day
period, the Code Enforcement Officer shall issue a non-traffic citation
with a fine in the amount of $25 for the first offense, $100 for the
second offense, and $200 for the third and every subsequent offense
thereafter. The fine shall be paid to the Borough Treasurer within
48 hours. In the event that the fine is not paid within 48 hours,
the citation will be turned over to the courts for collection.
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C.
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Appeal procedures for repeat violations: The property owner
shall have the right to appeal to the District Court any non-traffic
citation issued by the Codes Officer, wherein the non-traffic citation
was issued for repeat violations.
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§ 112.4 FAILURE TO COMPLY
Any person who shall continue any work after having been served
with a stop-work order, except such work as that person is directed
to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition, shall be liable
to a fine of not less than $300 or more than $1,000.
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§ 302.1.1. UNHEALTHY ACCUMULATIONS
It shall be unlawful within the Borough of Greenville to scrap,
dismantle, or tear apart, to accumulate rubbish, save, collect, stockpile,
or keep any abandoned, discarded junk, dilapidated vehicle, boat,
trailer, or recreational vehicle of any type.
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§ 302.3. SIDEWALKS AND DRIVEWAYS, shall be amended
by inserting § 302.3.1. SNOW REMOVAL
All sidewalks and walk paths "even if there is no hard surface
walkway" must be cleared to maintain a thirty-six-inch pathway within
24 hours after the snowfall; after which, a twenty-four-hour warning
will be issued, and after 48 hours, a non-traffic citation will be
issued as written in Section 106.4.1 and as amended herein.
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§ 302.4. WEEDS, first sentence, is amended to read,
in pertinent part:
All premises and exterior property shall be maintained free
from weeds or plant growth in excess of six inches.
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Second paragraph is amended to read:
Upon failure of the owner or agent having charge of a property
to cut and destroy weeds after service of a notice of violation and
within the time period as specified in the notice of violation, the
Borough authorities may remove, trim or cut the grass, weeds or vegetation,
and the cost of the work, together with an additional penalty of 10%,
may be collected by the Borough from that person in the manner provided
by law.
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§ 302.8. MOTOR VEHICLES, first paragraph, sentence
one is amended to read, in pertinent part:
Except as provided for in other regulations, no inoperative
or unlicensed motor vehicle or recreational vehicle shall be parked,
kept or stored on any premises more than 180 days, and no vehicle
at anytime shall be in the a state of major disassembly, disrepair,
or in the process of being stripped or dismantled.
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§ 304.14 INSECT SCREENS, first sentence, is amended
to read, in pertinent part:
During the period from May 1 to November 1, every door, window
and other outside opening required for ventilation of habitable rooms.
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§ 602.3. HEAT SUPPLY, first paragraph, is amended
to read:
Every owner and operator of any building, who rents, leases
or lets one or more dwelling unit, rooming unit, dormitory or guest
room on terms, either expressed or implied, to furnish heat to the
occupants thereof, shall supply heat during the period of October
1 to June 1, to maintain a temperature not less than 68° F. (20°
C.) in all habitable rooms, bathrooms and toilet rooms.
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§ 602.4 OCCUPIABLE WORK SPACES, first paragraph, is
amended to read:
Indoor occupiable work spaces shall be supplied with heat during
the period from October 1 to June 1 to maintain a temperature of not
less than 65° F. (18° C.) during the time these spaces are
occupied.
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