[Ord. No. 342, 1/17/1990, § 700]
All provisions of this chapter shall be administered by the
Borough Council or their officially designated representatives. All
matters relating to this chapter shall be submitted to the Borough
Secretary who shall handle the matter in accordance with current Borough
policies, procedures and guideline established by Council.
[Ord. No. 342, 1/17/1990, § 701]
The Borough shall keep a public record of its correspondence,
findings, recommendations and actions relating to plans filed for
review, in accordance with the policies, procedures and guidelines
established by Council.
[Ord. No. 342, 1/17/1990, § 702]
1. No application for preliminary or final plan approval shall be considered
as submitted until the fees and/or escrow deposit, as set forth below,
shall have been paid.
2. Council shall adopt and amend by resolution a schedule of fees, payable
by the applicant to the Borough, for the filing of preliminary and
final plans.
3. Council shall adopt and amend by resolution a schedule of escrow
deposits to be paid by the applicant to the Borough at the time of
filing of an application, sufficient to pay all Borough expenditures
anticipated in the course of its review and disposition of plans.
A. Costs incurred by the Borough in excess of the escrowed amount shall
be paid by the applicant prior to the granting of approvals or permits.
B. If costs incurred by the Borough are less than the escrowed amount,
the difference shall be refunded to the applicant following disposition
of the plans.
4. Borough expenditures subject to escrow as in Subsection
3 of this section include, but are not limited to, the following:
A. Engineering and other technical services such as plan review and
construction inspections.
B. Materials and facilities tests.
C. Services of the Borough Solicitor in reviewing and/or preparing documents
related to the plan reviews.
[Ord. No. 342, 1/17/1990, § 703; as amended by
Ord. No. 501, 8/15/2012]
1. Any person, partnership, or corporation who or which has violated
the provisions of this chapter shall upon being found liable therefor
in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the Borough, pay a
judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable
attorney fees incurred by the Borough as a result thereof. No judgment
shall commence or be imposed, levied or payable until the date of
the determination of a violation by the Magisterial District Judge.
2. If the defendant neither pays not timely appeals the judgment, the
Borough may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable rules
of civil procedure.
3. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation,
unless the Magisterial District Judge, determining that there has
been a violation, further determines that there was a good-faith basis
for the person, partnership or corporation 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 Magisterial District Judge and thereafter each day that a violation
continues shall constitute a separate violation.