[Ord. No. 74-1977, § 1201, 7/12/1977]
1. 
The Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors shall have the duty and authority for the administration and general enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, as specified or implied herein.
2. 
Officials of South Hanover Township having regulatory duties and authorities connected with or appurtenant to the subdivision, use or development of land shall have the duties and authorities for the controlling enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, as specified or implied herein or in other ordinances of South Hanover Township.
3. 
Permits required by South Hanover Township for the erection or alteration of buildings, the installation of sewers or sewage disposal systems, or for other appurtenant improvements to, or use of, the land, shall not be issued by any South Hanover Township official responsible for such issuance until he has ascertained that the site for such building, alteration, improvement, or use is located on a subdivision approved and publicly recorded in accordance with the provisions of this chapter regulating the subdivision of land.
4. 
Such permits shall be issued only after it has been determined that the site for such building, alteration, improvement or use conforms to the site descriptions as indicated by the approved and recorded final plat or other land description acceptable in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and that it is in compliance with all applicable provisions of this chapter.
5. 
The South Hanover Township Sewage Enforcement Officer shall require that applications for sewage disposal permits contain all the information necessary for him to ascertain that the site for the proposed system is acceptable in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The rules and regulations of the Department of Environmental Resources and any requirements of South Hanover Township pertaining to the issuance of such permit.
[Ord. No. 74-1977, § 1202, 7/12/1977]
Amendments to this chapter shall become effective only after a public hearing held pursuant to public notice as defined herein and in accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code of 1968, as amended, Act 247, Article V, § 505.
[Ord. No. 74-1977, 7/12/1977; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
1. 
In addition to other remedies, the Township may institute and maintain appropriate actions by law or in equity to restrain, correct or abate violations, to prevent unlawful construction, to recover damages and to prevent illegal occupancy of a building, structure or premises. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other documents used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the seller or transferor from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
2. 
The Township may refuse to issue any permit or grant any approval necessary to further improve or develop any real property which has been developed or which has resulted from a subdivision of real property in violation of this chapter. This authority to deny such a permit or approval shall apply to any of the following applicants:
A. 
The owner of record at the time of such violation.
B. 
The vendee or lessee of the owner of record at the time of such violation without regard as to whether such vendee or lessee had actual or constructive knowledge of the violation.
C. 
The current owner of record who acquired the property subsequent to the time of violation without regard as to whether such current owner had actual or constructive knowledge of the violation.
D. 
The vendee or lessee of the current owner of record who acquired the property subsequent to the time of violation without regard as to whether such vendee or lessee had actual or constructive knowledge of the violation.
3. 
As an additional condition for issuance of a permit or the granting of an approval to any such owner, current owner, vendee or lessee for the development of any such real property, the Township may require compliance with the conditions that would have been applicable to the property at the time the applicant acquired an interest in such real property.
[Ord. No. 74-1977, 7/12/1977; Ord. No. 3-1995, 9/12/1995]
1. 
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated the provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefore in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the Township, pay a judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Township 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 district justice. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable rules of civil procedure. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation, unless the district justice 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 district justice and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
2. 
The court of common pleas, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem judgment pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.
3. 
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant to any person or entity other than the Township the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
4. 
District justices shall have initial jurisdiction in proceedings brought under this section.