1. Penalty where no penalty provided. Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the township any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful, or whenever in this Code or other ordinance the doing of any act is declared to be unlawful, and no specific penalty is provided therefor:
A. Violations of health, safety and welfare provisions. For violations of ordinances adopting building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire or public safety codes; and for ordinances regulating water services, water pollution, air pollution and noise, the following penalty shall be provided.
(1) Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
B. Other violations. All other penalties, except for penalties in Chapter 15, “Motor Vehicles and Traffic” (based on the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 101 et seq.), penalties and ordinances adopted under the authority of the Municipalities Planning Code, 53 P.S. §§ 10101 et seq., earned income tax ordinances adopted under the Local Tax Enabling Act, 53 P.S. §§ 6924.101 et seq., and ordinances adopted under the authority of the Sewage Facilities Act, 35 P.S. §§ 750.1 et seq., should provide, generally.
(1) Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated or permitted the violation of the provisions of this Part, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the township, shall pay a judgment of not more than $600 plus all court costs. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or payable until the date of the determination of a violation by a magisterial district judge. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the township may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable rules of civil procedure. Each day that a violation continues or each Section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate violation.
2. Additional consequences. The imposition of a penalty under the provisions of this Code shall not prevent the revocation of any permit or license or the taking of other punitive or remedial action where called for or permitted under the laws of the commonwealth and the United States of America. In addition, the township may institute injunctive, mandamus or any other appropriate action or proceeding at law or in equity for the enforcement of this Code. Any court of competent jurisdiction shall have the right to issue restraining orders, temporary or permanent injunctions, mandamus or other appropriate forms of remedy or relief.
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