Borough of Downingtown, PA
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2023-03-01
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 118 Checks, Returned
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Appeals, Board of Administrative
- Ch 15 Citizen Advisory Committees
- Ch 16 Civil Service Commission
- Ch 24 Fire Department
- Ch 28 Firemen's Relief Association
- Ch 30 Fiscal Management
- Ch 32 Funds
- Ch 36 (Reserved)
- Ch 39 Historic Commission
- Ch 40 Human Relations Committee
- Ch 43 Intermunicipal Agreements
- Ch 52 Officers and Employees
- Ch 53 Parks and Recreation Commission
- Ch 57 Pensions and Other Benefits
- Ch 61 Planning Commission
- Ch 65 Police Department
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Ch 71 Regional Authority
- Ch 76 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 80 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 86 Water Authority
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 94 Alarms, Automatic Protection
- Ch 97 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 109 (Reserved)
- Ch 113 (Reserved)
- Ch 114 Neighborhood Blight Protection
- Ch 118 Checks, Returned
- § 118-1 Service fee.
- § 118-2 Inclusion of fee on appropriate list.
- § 118-3 Collection of service charge.
- § 118-4 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 119 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 121 Contractors, Licensing of
- Ch 123 Curfew
- Ch 127 Disease Control
- Ch 131 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 133 Dumpsters and Storage Pods
- Ch 139 Fees
- Ch 143 Firearms
- Ch 146 Fire Prevention
- Ch 148 Fireworks
- Ch 150 Floodplain Management
- Ch 152 (Reserved)
- Ch 156 (Reserved)
- Ch 160 Handbills and Posters
- Ch 164 (Reserved)
- Ch 173 Mass Gatherings
- Ch 175 (Reserved)
- Ch 179 All-Terrain Vehicles and Dirt Bikes
- Ch 181 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 181A Municipal Claims and Liens
- Ch 182 Noise
- Ch 183 No-Parking Zones
- Ch 187 Nuisances
- Ch 195 Parades
- Ch 199 Parking, Residential Permit
- Ch 203 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 207 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 211 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 215 (Reserved)
- Ch 219 Poles, Utility
- Ch 222 Property Maintenance and Housing Standards
- Ch 223 Residential Certificates of Compliance
- Ch 230 (Reserved)
- Ch 235 Sewers
- Ch 239 Shopping Carts
- Ch 243 Solid Waste Collection and Recycling
- Ch 245 Storm Sewer System
- Ch 246 Stormwater Management
- Ch 247 Street Address Numbers
- Ch 249 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 256 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 260 (Reserved)
- Ch 264 Taxation
- Ch 270 Trees
- Ch 274 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 277 (Reserved)
- Ch 281 Water
- Ch 287 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A291 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A292 Ordained Streets
- Ch A293 Boot Road Landscape Criteria
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Downingtown 4-15-1998
by Ord. No. 98-1. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A service fee is hereby imposed in an amount made by resolution for
any check which is submitted in payment of any outstanding obligation and
which is returned for nonpayment. The check will not be redeposited. The cost
of certified postage used in the notification process will also be charged
to the delinquent account.
Whenever an outstanding account is for a tax or some other municipal
service, the service fee shall be included on the appropriate list of delinquent
accounts.
Any service charge authorized by this chapter including the principal
amount of check and certified fee shall be collected within 10 days of the
date of the written notification in the form of a money order or cash. No
checks will be accepted.
Violation of any section of this chapter shall result in a fine not
to exceed $600, plus costs of prosecution before a District Justice, and,
in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 30 days.
