1. Upon failure to comply with the written notice from the Code Enforcement Officer, the Township agents or workmen shall have the power to enter the property and remove the nuisance, or dangerous building or structure and assess and collect the actual cost thereof together with a penalty of 10% of the amount of the cost thereof.
2. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a district justice 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. Provided, imposition of a fine or penalty under this subsection shall not prevent the enforced removal of said nuisance under subsection (1). The remedies provided under this Section shall be deemed cumulative.
(Ord. 14, 2/1/1971, § 3; as amended by Ord. 66, 9/5/2002, § 1)
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