It shall be unlawful for the owner of any land in the Borough, or any other person, firm, or corporation, to subdivide any lot, tract or parcel of land, or lay out, construct, open or dedicate for public use or travel, any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage facilities, or other facilities in connection therewith, or for the common use of occupants of buildings within the subdivision or land development, unless and until final plans of such subdivision or development shall have been prepared by a registered professional engineer or registered land surveyor, submitted to and approved in writing thereon by the Borough Council (except for minor subdivisions) and recorded in the Bucks County Recorder of Deeds office in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
A. 
No lot in a subdivision may be sold and no permit to erect, alter, or repair any building upon land in a subdivision may be issued, and no building may be erected in a subdivision, unless and until a plan of such subdivision shall have been approved and properly recorded, and until the improvements required by Borough Council in connection therewith shall have either been constructed or guaranteed as hereinafter provided.
B. 
No building depending on ingress and egress upon the improvement of any street or streets, herein provided for, shall be permitted to be occupied before such improvements are fully completed from a now existing paved street to and across the front of the lot on which the house is located, and/or to a sufficient depth along the side of the lot to service any driveway, driveways, or parking space.
C. 
No building depending upon public water and sewer facilities shall be permitted to be occupied before such facilities are fully provided and operational.
[Amended 6-8-1993 by Ord. No. 863]
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 Borough, pay a judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Borough 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 district justice. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the Borough 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 been only one such violation until the fifth day following the date of the determination of a violation by the district justice 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 Borough of Morrisville the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
D. 
District Justices shall have initial jurisdiction in proceedings brought under this section.
[Amended 6-8-1993 by Ord. No. 863]
A. 
In addition to other remedies, the Borough 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 Borough of Morrisville 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 Borough 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.
[Amended 6-8-1993 by Ord. No. 863]
A. 
Amendments to this chapter shall become effective only after a public hearing held pursuant to public notice. A brief summary setting forth the principal provisions of the proposed amendment and a reference to the place within the Borough where copies of the proposed amendment may be secured or examined shall be incorporated in the public notice. Unless the proposed amendment shall have been prepared by the Planning Commission, the Borough Council shall submit the amendment to the Planning Commission at least 30 days prior to the hearing on such amendment to provide the Planning Commission an opportunity to submit recommendations. In addition, at least 30 days prior to the public hearing on the amendment, the Borough shall submit the proposed amendment to the county planning agency for recommendations.
B. 
Within 30 days after adoption, the Borough Council shall forward a certified copy of the amendment to the County Planning Agency.
C. 
Proposed amendments shall not be enacted unless notice of proposed enactment is given in the manner set forth in this section, and shall include the time and place of the meeting at which passage will be considered, a reference to a place within the Borough where copies of the proposed amendment may be examined without charge or obtained for a charge not greater than the cost thereof. The Borough Council shall publish the proposed amendment once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough not more than 60 days nor less than seven days prior to passage. Publication of the proposed amendment shall include either the full text thereof or the title and a brief summary, prepared by the Borough Solicitor and setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail. If the full text is not included:
(1) 
A copy thereof shall be supplied to a newspaper of general circulation in the Borough at the time the public notice is published.
(2) 
An attested copy of the proposed amendment shall be filed in the county law library (or other county office designated by the County Commissioners).
D. 
In the event substantial amendments are made in the proposed amendment, before voting upon enactment, the Borough Council shall, at least 10 days prior to enactment, readvertise, in one newspaper of general circulation in the Borough, a brief summary setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail together with a summary of the amendments.