The Minimum Design Standards for Rehabilitation
for Residential Properties, as set forth in the Program Participants
and Department of Housing and Urban Development Handbook No. 4940.4,
are hereby adopted by reference as the required minimum design standards
for federally sponsored rehabilitation of existing residential properties
within the Township of Darlington. A copy of said design standards
is on file at the Darlington Township Municipal Building, 3590 Darlington
Road, Darlington, PA, and may be examined by appointment.
The minimum design standards set forth in HUD
Handbook No. 4940.4 aforesaid, and therein identified as "required
provisions" shall be deemed mandatory requirements. Those minimum
design standards set forth in said HUD Handbook No. 4940.4 and therein
identified as "guides" shall be deemed optional on the part of program
participants.
Any person, partnership or corporation violating
any provision of this chapter, or making any false statement in any
application for the permit required hereunder, or doing any work of
rehabilitation in substantial deviation from the mandatory requirements
of the minimum design standards herewith adopted or the permit approving
same, shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and, in default of payment of
the fine or penalty imposed and the costs, such person, the members
of such partnership, or the officers of such corporation may be committed
to incarceration for a period not exceeding 90 days.