[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[An ordinance adopting the Code of the Township of Spring and making certain substantive changes to existing ordinances of the Township is presently proposed before the Board of Supervisors. Upon final adoption, it will be included here as Article I of this chapter.]
[Adopted 6-9-1997 by Ord. No. 257 (Ch. I, Part 6, of the 2013 Code of Ordinances)]
Except as provided in the following § 1-12 hereof, when the penalty imposed for the violation of an ordinance of the Township of Spring is not voluntarily paid to the said Township, the said Township shall initiate a civil enforcement proceeding before a district justice. The civil enforcement proceeding shall be initiated by complaint or by such other means as may be provided by the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. All ordinances which are to be enforced through a civil enforcement proceeding shall prescribe civil penalties not to exceed $600 per violation. In addition to or in lieu of civil actions before a district justice, the Township of Spring may enforce ordinances in equity. In any case where a penalty for a violation of an ordinance of the Township of Spring has not been timely paid and the person upon whom the penalty was imposed is found to have been liable therefor in civil proceedings, the violator shall be liable for the penalty imposed, including additional daily penalties for continuing violations, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the said Township of Spring in the enforcement proceedings. The Township of Spring shall be exempt from the payment of costs in any civil case brought to enforce an ordinance in accordance with this section.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
All ordinances of the Township of Spring regulating building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire, public safety, parking, solicitation, curfew, water, air or noise pollution shall be enforce by action brought before a district justice in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Township Solicitor may assume charge of the prosecution without the consent of the District Attorney as required by Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 83(c) (relating to trial in summary cases). The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Spring shall prescribe criminal fines not to exceed $1,000 for the violation of such ordinances, 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 the ordinance that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense.