A. 
Proposals for amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal may be initiated by the governing body or by the Planning Commission.
B. 
In case of an amendment other than that prepared by the Planning Commission, the governing body shall submit each such amendment to the Montgomery County Planning Commission and Horsham Township Planning Commission in accordance with the Municipalities Planning Code.
C. 
Within 30 days after adoption, the governing body shall forward a certified copy of any amendment to this chapter to the Montgomery County Planning Commission.
A. 
Before voting on the enactment of an amendment, the governing body shall hold a public hearing. No amendment shall become effective until after such hearing at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard.
B. 
Notice shall be given once each week for two successive weeks, the first notice being not more than 30 days and the second notice not less than seven days in advance of such hearings and shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. Such notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and shall include either the full text of the proposed amendment or the title and a brief summary, prepared by the Municipal Solicitor and setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail. If the full text is not included:
(1) 
A copy shall be supplied to a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at the time the public notice is published.
(2) 
An attested copy of the proposed ordinance shall be filed in the County Law Library or other county office designated by the County Commissioners.
A. 
Preventative remedies. In addition to the right of the Township to enforce a subdivision or land development ordinance violation by means of an action in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, and other rights the Township may have at law, including actions to recover damages and to prevent illegal occupancy of a building, structure, or premises, the Township may:
(1) 
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:
(a) 
The owner of record at the time of such violation.
(b) 
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.
(c) 
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 violations.
(d) 
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.
(2) 
As an additional condition for issuance of a permit or the granting of approval to any such owner, current owner, vendee, or lessee for the development of real property which was subdivided in violation of this chapter, the Township may require compliance with the conditions that would have been applicable to the property at the time the applicant acquired an interest in such property.
(3) 
Any person, partnership or corporation, or the members of such partnership or the officers of such corporation, who or which, being the owner or agent of the owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land, shall:
(a) 
Lay out, construct, open and/or dedicate any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other improvement for public use, travel or other purposes or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon.
(b) 
Sell, transfer or agree or enter into an agreement to sell or transfer any land in a subdivision or land development, whether by reference to or by use of a plan of such subdivision or land development or otherwise.
(c) 
Erect any building or buildings which constitute a land development thereon.
(d) 
Commence site grading or construction of improvements prior to recording of a final plan unless such grading or construction is for the sole purpose of installing improvements as prescribed in § 198-49 herein unless and until a final plan has been prepared in full compliance with the provisions of this chapter and has been recorded as proposed herein, or who or which in any way is in violation of or violates any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the penalties and remedies set forth in Subsection B hereof.
B. 
Enforcement remedies. Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated the provisions of this chapter, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the municipality in District Justice Court, shall pay a judgment of $1,000 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the municipality as a result thereof. 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 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.