Whoever violates any provision of this code or other ordinance of this township for which another penalty is not specifically provided, shall be subject to the following:
(A) Civil enforcement. Except as provided in division (B), when the penalty imposed for the violation of this code of ordinances enacted pursuant to the provisions of the Second Class Township Code, 53 P.S. §§ 65101 et seq., is not voluntarily paid to the township, the township shall initiate a civil enforcement proceeding before a district justice.
(1) The civil enforcement proceeding shall be initiated by complaint or by such other means as may be provided by the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. An ordinance which is to be enforced through a civil enforcement proceeding may prescribe civil penalties not to exceed $600 per violation.
(2) In addition to or in lieu of civil actions before a district justice, the township may enforce this code of ordinance in equity.
(3) In any case where a penalty for a violation of this code of ordinances has not been timely paid and the person upon whom the penalty was imposed is found to have been liable therefor in civil proceedings, the violator shall be liable for the penalty imposed, including additional daily penalties for continuing violations, plus court costs and reasonable attorney fees incurred by the township in the enforcement proceedings.
(4) The township shall be exempt from the payment of costs in any civil case brought to enforce an ordinance in accordance with this division.
(B) Summary offenses. For any provision of this code of ordinances regulating building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire, public safety, parking, solicitation, curfew, water, air or noise pollution, the Board of Supervisors shall provide that its enforcement shall be by action brought before a district justice in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure. The municipal solicitor may assume charge of the prosecution without the consent of the district attorney as required under Pa.R.Crim.P. No. 83(c) (relating to trial in summary cases). The Board of Supervisors may prescribe criminal fines not to exceed $1,000 per violation and may prescribe imprisonment to the extent allowed by law for the punishment of summary offenses.
(C) Existing ordinances. With regard to ordinances enacted prior to 5-7-1996, those regulating building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire, public safety, parking, solicitation, curfew, water, air or noise pollution shall be deemed automatically amended so that they shall be enforced by an action brought before a district justice in the same manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses in accordance with division (B). All other ordinances enacted prior to 5-7-1996, shall be deemed automatically amended so that they shall be enforced through a civil enforcement proceeding in accordance with division (A).
(D) Enforcement in equity. This code of ordinances may be enforced by the township through an action in equity brought in the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County.
(E) Separate offenses. A penalty shall be assessed for each day or portion thereof in which a violation is found to exist or for each section of this code of ordinances which is found to have been violated.
(F) Payment to Secretary-Treasurer. All fines and penalties collected for the violation of this code of ordinances shall be paid to the Township Secretary-Treasurer.
(G) Enforcement officers or agents. The Board of Supervisors may delegate the initial determination of the violation of this code of ordinances and the service of notice of the violation(s) to such officers or agents as the township shall deem qualified for that purpose.
(53 P.S. § 66601(c.1))