A. 
Subdivision and land development control. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any land in the township, or any other person, firm, or corporation, to subdivide any lot, tract or parcel of land, or to lay out, construct, open or dedicate for public use or travel any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage facilities, or other facilities in connection therewith, or for the common use of occupants of buildings within the subdivision or land development, unless and until final plans of such subdivision or development shall have been prepared by a registered professional engineer or registered land surveyor, submitted to and approved in writing thereon by the Township Board of Supervisors and recorded in the Bucks County Recorder of Deeds Office in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
B. 
Sale of lots; issuance of building permits; erection of buildings.
(1) 
No lot in a subdivision may be sold, and no permit to erect, alter, or repair any building upon land in a subdivision or land development may be issued unless and until the municipal improvements required by the Board of Supervisors in connection therewith have either been constructed or guaranteed as hereinafter provided.
(2) 
No building in a subdivision or land development depending for ingress and egress upon the improvement of any street or streets, herein provided for, shall be permitted to be occupied before improvements are fully completed from an existing paved street to and across the front of the lot on which the building is located, and/or to a sufficient depth along the side of the lot to service any driveway, driveways, or parking spaces.
(3) 
No building depending upon public water and sewer facilities shall be permitted to be occupied before such facilities are fully provided and operational.
[Amended 1-21-1992 by Ord. No. 295]
A. 
In addition to other remedies, the Township of Upper Southampton 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.
B. 
The Township of Upper Southampton 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 this chapter. This authority to deny such a permit or approval shall apply to any of the following applicants:
(1) 
The owner of record at the time of such violation.
(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.
(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.
(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.
C. 
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 of Upper Southampton 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.
A. 
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated the provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the Township of Upper Southampton, pay a judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Township of Upper Southampton 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 of Upper Southampton 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, 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 the determination of a violation by the District Justice and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
B. 
The Court of Common Pleas, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem judgment pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.
C. 
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant to any person or entity other than the Township of Upper Southampton the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
D. 
District Justices shall have initial jurisdiction in proceedings brought under this section.