[Amended 4-2-1992 by Ord. No. 92-1]
A. No application for preliminary or final plan approval
shall be considered as submitted until the fees and/or escrow deposit,
as set forth below, shall have been paid.
B. The Board of Supervisors shall adopt and amend, by
resolution, a schedule of fees, payable by the applicant to the Township,
for the filing of preliminary and final plans.
C. The Board of Supervisors shall adopt and amend, by
resolution, a schedule of escrow deposits, to be paid by the applicant
to the Township at the time of the filing of the application, sufficient
to pay all Township expenditures anticipated in the course of its
review and disposition of plans.
(1) Costs incurred by the Township in excess of the escrowed
amount shall be paid by the applicant prior to the granting of approvals
or permits.
(2) If costs incurred by Township are less than the escrowed
amount, the difference shall be refunded to the applicant following
disposition of the plans.
D. Township expenditures subject to escrow as in Subsection
C, above, include, but are not limited to the following:
(1) Engineering and other technical services such as plan
review and construction inspections.
(2) Materials and facilities tests.
(3) Services of the Township Solicitor in reviewing and/or
preparing documents related to the plan reviews.
[Amended 4-2-1992 by Ord. No. 92-1]
A. Conditions. The Township shall have no obligation
to accept dedication of any road or other improvement unless:
(1) The required improvements, utility mains and laterals
and monuments, shown on an approved plan or plans, have been constructed
to all requirements.
(2) It is established to the satisfaction of Township
Board of Supervisors that there is a need for the dedication of improvements.
B. Acceptance. The Township shall have no responsibility
with respect to any road or other improvement, not withstanding the
use of the same by the public, unless the road or other improvement
is accepted by an ordinance adopted by the Township Board of Supervisors.
C. Guarantee. The applicant shall guarantee, for a period
of 18 months from the date of the ordinance accepting dedication,
to maintain the stability of all materials and work and to promptly
replace all poor or inferior materials and work and to remedy all
defects in materials or workmanship, all shrinkage, settlement or
other faults of any kind whatsoever arising therefrom, at his own
expense, and to the satisfaction of the Township Engineer, when notified
in writing to do so by the Township Engineer. In order to secure the
guarantee as herein required, the Township shall be assured by means
of a proper guarantee in the form of a maintenance bond, with surety
satisfactory to the Township or the deposit of funds or securities
in escrow in an amount equal to 15% of the completion guarantee posted
by the owner with the Township.
[Amended 4-2-1992 by Ord. No. 92-1]
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 the reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the Township
as a result thereof. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied
or be payable until the date of the determination of the violation
by the District Justice. If the defendant neither pays nor timely
appeal 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 only one such violation
until the fifth day following the date of the determination of the
violation by the District Justice, and thereafter, each day that a
violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. All fines
collected for such violations shall be paid to the Township.