[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Edgmont
Township 5-18-1938 by Ord. No.
0. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The establishment and maintaining of a commercial cemetery,
namely one conducted for profit and not for eleemosynary purposes,
in the Township of Edgmont is hereby deemed to be a nuisance as being
detrimental to the health and general welfare of said Township.
From and after the passing of this chapter it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to establish or maintain a commercial
cemetery that is a cemetery for profit as distinguished from a non-profit-sharing
business, in the Township of Edgmont.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge in the same manner provided for the enforcement of
summary offensesunder the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.
