(A) Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated the provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the township, through the Township Code Enforcement Officer, pay a judgment of not more than $500, plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by the township as a result thereof. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or be payable until the date of the determination of a violation by the District Justice. 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 shall constitute a separate violation, unless the District Justice, determining that there has been a violation, further determines that there was a good-faith basis for the person, partnership or corporation violating the chapter to have believed that there was no such violation, in which event there shall be deemed to have been only one such violation until the fifth day following the date of the determination of a violation by the District Justice, and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation.
(B) The Court of Common Pleas of the county, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem judgment pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.
(C) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant to any person or entity other than the township, through the Code Enforcement Officer, the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
(2003 Code, § 146-44) (Ord. 2-96, passed 7-5-1996)