Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated or permitted the violation of the provisions of this chapter and any amendment thereto any prior enabling laws shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the borough, pay a judgment of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the borough as a result thereof. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or 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 borough 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 this 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 continues shall constitute a separate violation by the district justice and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. All judgments, costs and reasonable attorney fees collected for the violation of zoning ordinances shall be paid over to the borough. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant any person or entity other than the borough and its Zoning Officer the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
(1980 Code, Ch. 28, Part 9, § 28-904) (Ord. 1419, passed 9-16-2013, § 904)