The Board of Supervisors or its officially designated
representatives shall administer all provisions of this chapter. All
matters relating to this chapter shall be submitted to the Township
Secretary, who shall handle the matter in accordance with current
Township policies, procedures and guidelines established by the Board
of Supervisors.
The Township shall keep a public record of its
correspondence, findings, recommendations and actions relating to
plans filed for review, in accordance with the policies, procedures
and guidelines established by the Board of Supervisors.
A.
No application for preliminary or final plan approval
shall be considered as submitted until the fees and/or escrow deposit,
as set forth below, shall have been paid.
B.
The Board of Supervisors shall adopt and amend by
resolution a schedule of fees, payable by the applicant to the Township,
for the filing of preliminary and final plans.
C.
The Board of Supervisors shall adopt and amend by
resolution a schedule of escrow deposits to be paid by the applicant
to the Township at the time of filing of an application, sufficient
to pay all Township expenditures anticipated in the course of its
review and disposition of plans.
(1)
The applicant shall pay any costs incurred by the
Township in excess of the escrowed amount prior to the granting of
approvals or permits.
(2)
If costs incurred by the Township are less than the
escrowed amount, the difference shall be refunded to the applicant
following disposition of the plans.
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, pay a judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs,
including the reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the Township
as a result thereof.
B.
No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or
be payable until the date of the determination of a violation by the
Magisterial District Judge.
C.
If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the
judgment, the Township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable
Rules of Civil Procedure.
D.
Each day that a violation continues shall constitute
a separate violation, unless the Magisterial District Judge determining
that there has been a violation further determines that there was
a good faith basis for the person, partnership or corporation violating
the 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 Magisterial District Judge, and thereafter each day that a
violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
E.
All fines collected for such violations shall be paid
to the Township.