A.
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which
has violated the provisions of the Township's Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance 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 attorneys'
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 District Justice. 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 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 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 District Justice and thereafter
each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
B.
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.
A.
The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time, amend,
supplement, change, modify or repeal this chapter by proceeding in
the following manner and as otherwise required by the law.
B.
Amendment procedure. The Board of Supervisors, by
resolution adopted at a regular or special meeting, shall fix the
time and place of a public hearing on the proposed amendment and cause
public notice thereof to be given as follows:
(1)
Publishing a notice thereof in one newspaper of general
circulation in the Township once every week for two successive weeks,
not more than 30 days and not less than seven days in advance of the
hearing.
(2)
The notice shall state the time and place of the hearing
and the particular nature of the matter to be considered at the hearing.
(3)
The notice shall also state that all interested persons
may appear and be heard.
C.
Referral to Planning Commission. All proposed amendments
prior to adoption shall be referred to the Township Planning Commission
at least 30 days prior to the date of the public hearing, for recommendation
and report, unless such proposed amendment has been initiated by the
Township Planning Commission.
D.
At least 30 days prior to the public hearing on the
amendment, the Township shall submit the proposed amendment to the
Montgomery County Planning Commission for recommendations.
E.
Within 30 days after adoption, the Board of Supervisors
shall forward a certified copy of any amendment to the Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance to the Montgomery County Planning Commission.
F.
Public notice.
(1)
Notice of the proposed enactment of subdivision and
land development ordinances and amendments shall be 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 Township where copies of the proposed ordinance or
amendment may be examined without charge or obtained for a charge
not greater than the cost thereof. The Township shall publish the
proposed ordinance or amendment once in one newspaper of general circulation
in the Township not more than 60 days nor less than seven days prior
to passage. Publication of the proposed ordinance or amendment shall
include either the full text thereof or the title and a brief summary,
prepared by the Township Solicitor and setting forth all the provisions
in reasonable detail. If the full text is not included:
(2)
In the event that substantial amendments are made
in the proposed ordinance or amendment, before voting upon enactment,
the Board of Supervisors shall, at least 10 days prior to enactment,
readvertise in one newspaper of general circulation in the Township,
a brief summary setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail,
together with a summary of the amendments.
(3)
Subdivision and land development ordinances and amendments
may be incorporated into official ordinance books by reference with
the same force and effect as if duly recorded therein.
A.
"Mobile home park" is hereby defined to mean a parcel
of land under single ownership which has been planned and approved
for the placement of mobile homes for nontransient use, consisting
of two or more mobile home lots.
