[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.
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 195, Zoning.
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.