(a) Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated or permitted the violation of the provisions of this chapter shall upon being found liable therefore in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the City pay a judgment not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the City 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 or timely appeals the judgment, the City may enforce the judgment pursuant to applicable rules of civil procedure. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation, unless the district justice determining that there was a good faith basis for the defendant to have believed there was no 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. All judgments, costs, and reasonable attorney fees collected for the violation of this chapter shall be paid over to the City. The Court of Common Pleas, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem fine pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.
(b) District justices shall have initial jurisdiction over proceedings brought under this section.
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed or interpreted to grant to any persons or entity other than the City the right to commence any action for enforcement pursuant to this section.
(Ord. 5139. Passed 11-27-13.)