[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978]
As used in this Part, the term "person" shall include any individual,
corporation, firm, partnership, association, or other legal entity.
The singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the
singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978]
No person shall destroy or injure in any way whatsoever or tamper
with or deface any public property of the Township of Richland, within
or without the Township, or any grass, walk, lamp, ornamental work,
building, street light, or water stop box on or in any of the streets,
alleys, sidewalks or public grounds in the Township.
[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978]
No person shall in any manner interfere with or meddle with
or pull, drive, change, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument
or other evidence of any elevation, grade, line, location, corner
or angle in the Township made, placed or set, or hereafter made, placed
or set, or caused to be done by the authorities of the Township in
any survey of or in any street, alley or public ground in the Township
to evidence the location, elevation, line, grade, corner or angle
of any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, gutter, drain or other
public work, matter or thing.
[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978]
No person shall destroy or remove or deface or obliterate or
cover up any lamp, warning sign or barricade erected by the authorities
of the Township or by any person doing work by permission of the authorities
of the Township on any of the streets, alleys, sidewalks or bridges
in the Township or on any public grounds of the Township, within or
without the Township, as a warning of danger.
[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978]
No person shall take any earth, stone or other material from
any of the streets, alleys or public grounds in the Township.
[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978]
This Part shall not apply to normal activities in connection
with the construction, maintenance and repair of streets, alleys,
sidewalks and public grounds and the structures and fixtures located
thereon or therein, or to incidental results of work done thereon
or therein upon permit from or by authority of the Township.
[Ord. 135, 11/21/1978; as amended by Ord. 278, 9/18/1991;
by Ord. 325, 7/3/1996; by Ord. 336, 2/5/1997; and at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. AO)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this Part
shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding
commenced by the Township before a Magisterial District Judge, pay
a fine of not more than $600, plus all court costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, incurred by the Township in the enforcement of this
Part. 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 a violation exists shall constitute a
separate offense. Further, the appropriate officers or agents of the
Township are hereby authorized to seek equitable relief, including
injunction, to enforce compliance herewith.
