[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Township of Darlington 9-5-1980 by Ord. No. 22. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Minimum Design Standards for Rehabilitation
for Residential Properties, as set forth in the Program Participants
and Department of Housing and Urban Development Handbook No. 4940.4,
are hereby adopted by reference as the required minimum design standards
for federally sponsored rehabilitation of existing residential properties
within the Township of Darlington. A copy of said design standards
is on file at the Darlington Township Municipal Building, 3590 Darlington
Road, Darlington, PA, and may be examined by appointment.
The minimum design standards set forth in HUD
Handbook No. 4940.4 aforesaid, and therein identified as "required
provisions" shall be deemed mandatory requirements. Those minimum
design standards set forth in said HUD Handbook No. 4940.4 and therein
identified as "guides" shall be deemed optional on the part of program
participants.
A.
No work of rehabilitation shall be undertaken within
or upon a residential structure until a permit therefor has been issued
by the Township Secretary. Such permit, when issued, shall be styled
"residential rehabilitation permit." No fee shall be charged for such
permits; such permits may not be transferred or assigned.
B.
No rehabilitation permit shall issue except upon prior
application made or joined in by the Beaver County Redevelopment Authority.
All such applications shall contain the name of the owner of the premises
for which work of rehabilitation is proposed, the address (or location),
the tax parcel number of the premises, the intended work of rehabilitation,
and the estimated capital value of the proposed work of rehabilitation.
The application shall be accompanied by such other information as
may be deemed necessary by the Township to determine compliance with
the terms of this chapter of the Township of Darlington. The application
and all required or requested accompanying matter shall be submitted
in triplicate and shall be sworn to by the applicant. One complete
set shall be returned to the applicant upon approval or rejection
of the requested permit; one copy shall be retained in the permanent
files of the Township Secretary; and the remaining copy shall be transmitted
to the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Beaver for enforcement
and compliance purposes.
C.
No work of rehabilitation shall be undertaken unless
the permit issued by the Township Secretary shall be first prominently
posted on the permitted premises. The failure or neglect of the applicant
to prominently post the permit and maintain the same throughout the
duration of the permitted work shall be a violation of this chapter.
Duplicate permits shall be issued by the Township Secretary without
additional charge. Loss, substantial destruction or defacement of
any posted permit must be promptly reported to the Township Secretary
within 24 hours after such event or casualty, Saturday, Sunday, and
legal holidays excepted.
D.
All permits shall expire upon completion of the work
therein authorized to be done or within one year from the issuance
thereof, whichever event shall first occur. A permit shall expire
if the work therein authorized to be done is not commenced within
180 days from the date such permit shall be issued.
Any person, partnership or corporation violating
any provision of this chapter, or making any false statement in any
application for the permit required hereunder, or doing any work of
rehabilitation in substantial deviation from the mandatory requirements
of the minimum design standards herewith adopted or the permit approving
same, shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and, in default of payment of
the fine or penalty imposed and the costs, such person, the members
of such partnership, or the officers of such corporation may be committed
to incarceration for a period not exceeding 90 days.
