The purpose of this article is to promote the general health,
safety, and welfare of the community and provide safer public Township
roads.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ARTIFICIAL DRAINAGE FACILITIES
Those facilities which are used to collect, reroute, drain,
or otherwise divert water from its natural course and include, but
are not limited to, rain spouts, cellar drains, spillway for ponds
or dams, overflow from storage ponds or containers, and facilities
carrying sewage.
DRIVEWAY
Any vehicular entrance or exit to private property from or
to a Township road, whether it is designed as such or not, whether
it is surfaced or unsurfaced, and shall also include parking areas
along the Township road.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, association, firm, or corporation.
TOWNSHIP ROAD
Any road or street adopted or maintained by the Township
of White and includes the full width of the Township's right-of-way,
together with all ditches, watercourses, and facilities maintained
by the Township therein.
There is hereby imposed a fee for the issuance of permits required
under this article, which shall be fixed from time to time by resolution
of the Board of Supervisors and paid upon the application for permit.
Said fee shall be retained by the Township for its general use.
Any person, whether as principal or agent, firm or corporation,
who shall violate this article, or assist or abet its violation, upon
conviction thereof in an action brought before a Magisterial District
Judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses
under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced
to pay a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000 plus costs
and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment
not to exceed 30 days. Each day that a violation of this article continues
or each section of this article which shall be found to have been
violated shall constitute a separate offense.