A. The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time on their own motion, revise, modify or amend this Ordinance in order to increase its effectiveness or to expedite the approval of land subdivision and/or land development plans.

B. Any revisions, modifications or amendments to this Ordinance shall be made in accordance with the procedures established by law, after a public hearing on the proposed revisions, modifications or amendments held pursuant to public notice in accordance with the provision of the Municipalities Planning Code (Act 247).

C. The Board of Supervisors shall submit each amendment to the County Planning Commission for recommendations at least thirty (30) days prior to the date affixed for the public hearing on such proposed amendment.

The Board of Supervisors may require inspections during construction as may be necessary to determine that improvements are being installed in accordance with the approved plan and the provisions of this Ordinance.

A. No construction shall be commenced, no lot in a subdivision shall be sold, no permit to erect any building upon land in a subdivision shall be issued and no building shall be erected in a subdivision, except after compliance with this Ordinance.

B. Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated or permitted the violation of any provisions of this zoning ordinance shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by a township pay a judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by a township as 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, partner ship 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. All judgments, costs and reasonable attorney fees collected for the violation of zoning ordinances shall be paid over to the township whose ordinance has been violated. [Amended 11/13/89]

C. The Court of Common Pleas, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem fine pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment. [Amended I 1/13/89]

D. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant to any person or entity other that the township the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section. [Amended 11/13/89]

A. In addition to other remedies, the Township 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. [Amended 11/13/89]

B. The Township 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 any ordinance adopted pursuant to this article. This authority to deny such a permit or approval shall apply to any of the following applicants: [Amended 11/13/89]

1. The owner of record at the time of such violation. [Amended 11/13/89]

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. [Amended 11/13/89]

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. [Amended 11/13/89]

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. [Amended 11/13/89]

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 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 real property. [Amended 11/13/89]

This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its adoption.

ENACTED and ORDAINED into an Ordinance this 14th day of December, 1981.