All provisions of this chapter shall be administered by the Board of
Township Supervisors of Skippack Township, or by a Township official or the
Township Secretary, as designated by the Board. All plans, applications, correspondence,
complaints, requests for variances or appeals shall be delivered to the Township
building and submitted through the Township Secretary.
Any amendment to this chapter shall be in accordance with Section 505
of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. Resolutions adopted by the Board of Township Supervisors pursuant
to the terms and conditions of this chapter regarding fees, paving and construction
standards and timely changes in other design criteria as specifically permitted
by resolution of the Board shall not require an amendment to this chapter.
A. Power of amendment. The Board of Supervisors may, from
time to time, amend, supplement, change, modify or repeal this chapter. When
doing so, the Board shall proceed in the manner prescribed in this article.
B. Sources of amendment. Proposals for amendment, supplement,
change, modification or repeal may be initiated by the Board of Supervisors
on its own motion, or by the Planning Commission, as follows:
(1) Proposals originated by Board of Supervisors. The Board
shall refer every proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or
repeal originated by said Board to the Township Planning Commission and the
Montgomery County Planning Commission. Within 30 days of the submission of
said proposal, the Township Planning Commission shall submit to the Board
of Supervisors a report containing its recommendations including any additions
or modifications to the original proposal.
(2) Proposals originated by the Planning Commission. The
Township Planning Commission may, at any time, transmit to the Board of Supervisors
any proposal for the amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal
of this chapter.
C. Hearings. Before voting on the enactment of any amendment,
the Board of Supervisors shall hold a public hearing thereon with notice as
required by law. No amendment shall become effective until after such hearing,
at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be
heard. If, after any public hearing held upon an amendment, the proposed amendment
is revised, or further revised, the Board may hold another public hearing,
pursuant to public notice, before proceeding to vote on the amendment.
If, during the course of construction or completion of a subdivision
or land development, changes, alterations or modifications of a final plan
become necessary, such changes may be approved only after written acceptance
by the Township Engineer and written approval of the Board of Township Supervisors.
Substantial revisions to any such final plan shall cause the re-recordation
of the final plan after such approvals are obtained.
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which, being the owner
or agent of the owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land, shall lay out,
construct, open or dedicate any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water
main or other improvements for public use, travel or other purposes or for
the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon, or who sells, transfers
or agrees or enters into an agreement to sell any land in a subdivision or
land development, whether by reference to or by other use of a plat of such
subdivision or land development or otherwise, or erect any building thereon,
unless and until a final plat has been prepared in full compliance with the
provisions of this chapter and has been recorded as provided herein, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, such person, or
the members of such partnership, or the officers of such corporation, or the
agent of any of them, responsible for such violation shall pay a fine not
exceeding $1,000 per lot or parcel or per dwelling within each lot or parcel.
All fines collected for such violations shall be paid over to the Township.
The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other
document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the
seller or transferor from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.