[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners (now Township
Council) of the Township of Upper Darby 6-2-1959 by Ord. No. 1467. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
No business or commercial activity shall be conducted within
a building on a Sunday or at any other time between the hours of 11:00
p.m. and 7:00 a.m. the next day unless there is in attendance at those
times, within such place of business or commercial activity, one or
more persons whose principal function is to supervise, conduct, control,
oversee and operate such activity.
A person shall not be deemed to be in attendance at a place
of activity, under the terms of this chapter, unless he is physically
present and available at such place of activity at least 50 minutes
of every hour for which he is required to be in attendance by this
chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
This chapter shall be enforced by the filing of a civil complaint
or by such other means as may be provided by the Pennsylvania Rules
of Civil Procedure. Any person, firm or corporation who violates any
building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire or public safety
code shall, upon being found liable in a civil proceeding, be ordered
to pay a penalty of not more than $1,000, plus the costs of prosecution,
plus all Township attorneys' fees incurred in the prosecution of the
civil case. Any person, firm or corporation who violates any other
ordinance shall, upon being found liable in a civil proceeding, be
ordered to pay a penalty of not more than $600, plus the costs of
prosecution, plus all Township attorneys' fees incurred in the prosecution
of the civil case. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute
a separate violation of this chapter. Each subsection of this chapter
that is violated shall constitute a separate violation of this chapter.
