A. 
The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time on their own motion, revise, modify or amend this chapter in order to increase its effectiveness or to expedite the approval of land subdivision and/or land development plans.
B. 
Any revisions, modifications or amendments to this chapter shall be made in accordance with the procedures established by law, after a public hearing on the proposed revisions, modification or amendments held pursuant to public notice in accordance with the provision of the Municipalities Planning Code.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
C. 
The Board of Supervisors shall submit each amendment to the County Planning Commission for recommendations at least 30 days prior to the date affixed for the public hearing on such proposed amendment.
The Board of Supervisors may require inspections during the construction as may be necessary to determine that improvements are being installed in accordance with the approved plan and the provisions of this chapter.
A. 
No construction shall be commenced, no lot in a subdivision shall be sold, no permit to erect any building upon land in a subdivision shall be issued and no building shall be erected in a subdivision, except after compliance with this chapter.
B. 
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated or permitted the violation of any provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor 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 Magisterial District Judge. 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 Magisterial District Judge 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 Magisterial District Judge and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. All judgments, costs and reasonable attorney fees collected for the violation of this chapter shall be paid over to the Township.
C. 
The Court of Common Pleas, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem fine pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.
D. 
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 hereto.
E. 
Magisterial District Judges shall have initial jurisdiction in proceedings brought under this section.
A. 
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.
B. 
Permits.
(1) 
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 any ordinance adopted pursuant to 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.
(2) 
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.