(A) Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated any provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the Board of Supervisors or its authorized representatives, pay a judgement of not more than $500 plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the municipality as a result thereof, unless a higher penalty is established under state law. This shall include, but not be limited to, any person, partnership or corporation that accomplishes any act listed under § 154.004 without following the applicable procedures of this chapter.
(B) The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the seller or transferor from such penalties or from the remedies herein provided.
(C) 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. Imprisonment shall not be authorized as a penalty under this chapter.
(D) See also the § 154.013(C). All fines collected for such violations shall be paid over to the township.
(Ord. 127, passed 3-18-2010)