Any person, partnership, 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 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; 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 use of a plan of such subdivision or land development
or otherwise; or who erects any building thereon, unless and until
a final plan has been prepared in full compliance with the provisions
of this chapter and has been recorded as provided herein; or who performs
construction of the improvements inconsistent with the approved application
or the provisions of this chapter; or who in any other way is in violation
of any of the provisions of this chapter 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 attorney 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 determines that
there was a good faith basis for the person, partnership or corporation
violating this 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 determination of a violation
by the District Justice, and thereafter each day that a violation
continues shall constitute a separate violation.