[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township
of Germany 7-11-2011 by Ord. No.
45. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Township Secretary shall keep on file in the office of Germany
Township the document entitled "Construction and Materials Specifications"
as prepared by C.S. Davidson, Inc.
The said document is hereby adopted as the construction and
material specifications for improvements and construction in and for
all subdivisions and land development and other public improvements
with the Township of Germany, Adams County.
All construction and improvements to property, in subdivisions
or land development, or any other work involving public improvements,
shall be done according to the said construction and materials specifications.
If the document entitled "Construction and Material Specifications"
is updated and/or changed, then the most recent edition shall be considered
as the edition adopted herein as the construction and materials specifications
of the Township of Germany. All updates and/or changes in the "Construction
and Material Specifications" shall be approved by resolution of the
Board of Supervisors of Germany Township and upon approval shall thereafter
be incorporated into and become part of this chapter on a continuing
basis. Said updates and/or changes shall be kept on file in the office
of Germany Township.
Any and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
chapter is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the chapter.
Germany Township hereby declares that it would have passed this chapter,
and each section, subsection, sentences, clauses or phrase thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses and phrases be declared unconstitutional.
[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 under 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 Board of Supervisors shall prescribe imprisonment to
the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses.
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. In addition, all other actions are hereby reserved, including
an action in equity brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Adams
County, Pennsylvania, for the proper enforcement of this chapter.
This chapter shall take effect and be in force five days after
its approval. Enacted and ordained this 11th day of July, 2011.
