[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
Brighton as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Dangerous buildings — See Ch. 78.
[Adopted 8-11-1980 by Ord. No. 73]
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 Brighton. A copy of said Design
Standards is on file at the office of the Township Police Department, 2295
Tuscarawas Road, Beaver, Pennsylvania, and may be examined during business
days, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.,
prevailing times.
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 Zoning Officer. 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 Zoning Officer to determine compliance with the terms of the Zoning
Ordinance of the Township of Brighton.[1] 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 Zoning Officer; 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 Zoning Officer 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 Zoning Officer without additional charge. Loss, substantial destruction
or defacement of any posted permit must be promptly reported to the Zoning
Officer 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
article or who or which shall make any false statement in any application
for the permit required hereunder or do any work of rehabilitation in substantial
deviation from the mandatory requirements of the Minimum Design Standards
herewith adopted or the permit approving the same shall, upon conviction thereof
in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300
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 30 days.