[Adopted 6-24-2004 by Ord. No. 541]
This Borough of Blawnox hereby elects to administer and enforce
the provisions of the Pennsylvania Construction Code Act, Act 45 of
1999, 35 P.S. §§ 7210.101 to 7210.103, as amended from
time to time, and its regulations.
The Uniform Construction Code, contained in 34 Pa. Code Chapters
401 to 405, as amended from time to time, is hereby adopted and incorporated
herein by reference as the municipal building code of this Municipality.
Administration and enforcement of the code within this municipality
shall be undertaken in any of the following ways as determined by
the governing body of this municipality from time to time by resolution:
A. By the retention of one or more construction code officials or third-party
agencies to act on behalf of the municipality.
A Board of Appeals shall be established by resolution of the
governing body of this Borough of Blawnox in conformity with the requirements
of the relevant provisions of the code, as amended from time to time,
and for the purposes set forth therein. If at any time enforcement
and administration is undertaken jointly with one or more other municipalities,
said Board of Appeals shall be established by joint action of the
participating municipalities.
Fees assessable by the Borough of Blawnox for the administration
and enforcement undertaken pursuant to this chapter and the code shall
be established by the Council of the Borough of Blawnox by resolution
from time to time.
This chapter shall be effective five days after the passage
of this chapter.
If any sentence, clause, section, or part of this chapter is
for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such
unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or
impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, section
or parts of this chapter. It is hereby declared as the intent of the
Council of the Borough of Blawnox that this chapter would have been
adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause,
section or part thereof not been included herein.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed.