It shall be the duty of the Township Manager, Township Engineer, Code Enforcement Officer, Township Inspector, and/or any other such duly authorized representative of the Board of Supervisors to enforce the provisions of this chapter. Said enforcement officers shall require that the application for a building permit contain all information necessary to enable them to ascertain whether the proposed building, alteration, or use is located in an approved subdivision or land development. No building permit shall be issued until the enforcement officers have certified that the site for the proposed building, alteration or use complies with all the provisions of this chapter and conforms to the site description as indicated on the approved and recorded final plat.
Failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter or of any rules or regulations promulgated from time to time by the Board of Supervisors shall be a violation of this chapter.
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. 
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:
(1) 
The owner of record at the time of such violation.
(2) 
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.
(3) 
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.
(4) 
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.
C. 
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.
Magisterial District Judges shall have initial jurisdiction in proceedings brought under this chapter.
A. 
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated the 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 the ordinance 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:
B. 
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.
C. 
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.
In any case where a provision of this chapter is found to be in conflict with the provision of a zoning, building, fire, safety or health ordinance or code of this Township or law rule or regulation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the provision which establishes the higher standard for the promotion and protection of the health and safety of the people shall prevail.
It is intended that in interpreting and applying the provisions of this chapter, the provisions shall be deemed to be the minimum requirements for the promotion of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the Township. It is not intended that the provisions of this chapter will interfere with or abrogate or annul other rules, regulations or ordinances of the Township; provided, however, that where this chapter imposes a greater restriction upon the use of buildings or premises, or requires larger open spaces than may be imposed by such other rules, regulations or ordinances, the provisions of this chapter shall control.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Section 810, Fees, which immediately followed this section, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III).