A. 
It shall be the duty of the Zoning Officer or other such duly authorized representative of the Board of Supervisors, and he is hereby given the power and authority, to enforce the provisions of this chapter. The duly appointed officer shall require that the application for a building permit contain all information necessary to ascertain whether the proposed building, alteration or use is located in an approved subdivision or land development. No building permit shall be issued until the duly appointed officer has certified that the site for the proposed building, alteration or use complies with all the provisions of this chapter and conforms to the site description as indicated on the approval and recorded final plan.
B. 
Time limitations and ordinance changes.
(1) 
When an application for approval of a plat, whether preliminary or final, has been approved without conditions or approved by the applicant's acceptance of conditions, no subsequent change or amendment in Chapter 325, Zoning, this chapter or other governing ordinance or plan shall be applied to affect adversely the right of the applicant to commence and to complete any aspect of the approved development in accordance with the terms of such approval within five years from such approval.
(2) 
Where final approval is preceded by preliminary approval, the aforesaid five-year period shall be counted from the date of the preliminary approval. In the case of any doubt as to the terms of a preliminary approval, the terms shall be construed in the light of the provisions of the governing ordinances or plans as they stood at the time when the application for such approval was duly filed.
(3) 
Where the landowner has substantially completed the required improvements as depicted upon the final plan within the aforesaid five-year limit or any extension thereof as may be granted by the Supervisors, no change in Township ordinance or plan enacted subsequent to the date of filing of the preliminary plan shall notify or revoke any aspect of the approved final plan pertaining to zoning classification or density, lot, building, street or utility location.
(4) 
In the case of a preliminary plan calling for the installation of improvements beyond a five-year period, a schedule shall be filed by the landowner with the preliminary plans delineating all proposed sections as well as deadlines within which applications for final plan approval of each section are intended to be filed. Such schedule shall be updated annually by the applicant on or before the anniversary of the preliminary plan approval until final plan approval of the final section has been granted, and any modification in the aforesaid schedule shall be subject to approval of the Supervisors in its discretion.
(5) 
Each section in any residential subdivision or land development, except for the last section, shall contain a minimum of 25% of the total number of the dwelling units as depicted on the preliminary plan, unless a lesser percentage is approved by the Board of Supervisors in its discretion. Provided the landowner has not defaulted with regard to or violated any of the conditions of the preliminary plan approval, including compliance with the landowner's aforesaid schedule of submission of final plans for the various sections, then the aforesaid protections afforded by substantially completing the improvements depicted upon the final plan within five years shall apply and for any section or sections, beyond the initial section, in which the required improvements have not been substantially completed within said five-year period. The aforesaid protection shall apply for an additional term or terms of three years from the date of final plan approval for each section.
A. 
The Board of Supervisors may grant a modification or waiver of the requirements of one or more provisions of this chapter if the literal enforcement will exact undue hardship because of peculiar conditions pertaining to the land in question, provided that such modification or wavier will not be contrary to the public interest and that the purpose and intent of the chapter is observed. All requests for a modification or waiver shall be made in writing and shall accompany and be a part of the application for subdivision or development. The request shall state in full the grounds and facts of unreasonableness or hardship on which the request is based, the provision or provisions of the chapter involved and the minimum modification necessary. The request for modification or waiver will be reviewed by the Township Planning Commission for a recommendation and advisory comments. The Board of Supervisors and the Township Planning Commission shall keep a written record of all action on all requests for modification or waiver.
B. 
An applicant may request a modification or waiver in writing prior to formally filing a preliminary or final subdivision or land development plan. However, said modification or waiver request shall be accompanied by an administrative fee and review escrow to be established by resolution of the Board of Supervisors from time to time. The applicant shall be responsible for any and all professional review fees incurred by the Township relating to the modification or waiver request.
A. 
The Board of Supervisors shall establish by resolution a schedule of fees to be paid by the developer at the time of filing a preliminary or final plan. Said schedule of fees shall be posted in the Township Office.
B. 
Administration of fees.
(1) 
Upon filing of a preliminary or final land development or subdivision plan, the applicant shall pay, together with the filing fee, an amount as set by resolution of the Board of Supervisors from time to time for professional fees related to plan review, which monies shall be placed into an escrow account.
(2) 
At the time of approval of a subdivision or land development plan, the applicant shall pay to the Township an amount as set by resolution of the Board of Supervisors from time to time for professional fees related to inspection of public improvements, which monies shall be placed into an escrow account in accordance with the terms of this chapter. Any money remaining in the applicant's plan review escrow may be carried over into this inspection escrow. Upon approval of the plan if there are no public improvements for which inspections will be required or upon completion and acceptance of dedication of public improvements by the Township, any monies remaining in the escrow account shall be returned to the applicant.
(3) 
Upon receipt of a bill for professional fees for which the escrow was established, payment of the bill shall be made from the escrow account. A detailed copy of the invoice shall be forwarded to the applicant.
(4) 
When an account reaches 25% of its initial amount, the applicant shall be directed to refresh the escrow account to an amount equal to the initial amount required. If a plan review escrow account is not refreshed in accordance with this paragraph, professional plan review shall cease and the plan will not be approved. If an inspection escrow account is not refreshed in accordance with this paragraph, inspection shall cease and a stop-work order shall be issued.
(5) 
Any interest earned on an escrow account shall be retained by the Township as an administrative fee.
C. 
No final plan shall be recorded unless all fees and charges are paid in full.
D. 
Any engineering, legal, and administrative costs in excess of the amount submitted prior to approval of the final plan shall be paid by the developer upon being notified of same by the Township. Any excess paid over the amount actually required to cover such costs of the final plan shall be returned to the developer upon the completion of the required improvement.
A. 
No lot in a subdivision shall be sold, rented, leased or conveyed in any manner, no permit to erect, alter or repair any building upon land in a subdivision or land development shall be issued and no building shall be erected in a subdivision or land development until a final plan of such subdivision or land development has been approved and properly recorded and until improvements have been either constructed or guaranteed.
B. 
Any person, copartnership or corporation who shall subdivide any lot, tract or parcel of land; lay out, construct, open or dedicate any street, sanitary sewer, storm sewer or water mains, for public use or travel, or for the common use of occupants of buildings abutting thereon; sell, rent, lease or convey in any manner any lot; or erect any building in a subdivision without first having complied with the provisions of this chapter shall be in violation hereof.
C. 
Any person, partnership, corporation, or other entity who shall improve or develop any real property in violation of this chapter or an approved plan shall be in violation of this chapter and subject to any and all penalties set forth herein.
D. 
The Township may refuse to issue any permit or grant any approval necessary to further improve or develop any real property that has been developed or which has resulted from a subdivision of real property in violation of this chapter. This authority to deny such 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. 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 condition that would have been applicable to the property at the time the applicant acquired an interest in such real property.
E. 
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 Springettsbury 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 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.
F. 
The Court of Common Pleas, upon petition, may grant an order to stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per-diem judgment pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.
G. 
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant to any person or entity other than the Township the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
H. 
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 transferrer from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
I. 
It is within the discretion of the Township to seek cumulative remedies.
The procedure for securing review of any ordinance, decision or determination is set forth in Article X of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, Act of 1968, P.L. 805 No. 247, as reenacted and amended.