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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 14:57:50+00:00

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Pursuant to Section 1601(d) [53P.S.§ 66601(d)] of the Second Class Township Code, the codification of a complete body of legislation for the Township of Concord, County of Delaware, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as revised, codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 214, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as a single ordinance of the Township of Concord, which shall be known and is hereby designated as the "Code of the Township of Concord," hereinafter referred to as the "Code."
The provisions of this Code, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of ordinances and resolutions in force immediately prior to the enactment of this ordinance, are intended as a continuation of such ordinances and resolutions and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior ordinance or resolution. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Concord, and it is the intention of said Board of Supervisors that each such provision contained within the Code is hereby reenacted and reaffirmed as it appears in said Code. Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-3 below, and only new or changed provisions, as described in § 1-6 below, shall be deemed to be enacted from the effective date of this Code, as provided in § 1-15 below.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township of Concord and in force on the date of the adoption of this Code and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date given in § 1-15 below, except as hereinafter provided.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to August 5, 1997.
Any ordinance or resolution regulating traffic and parking.
Nonsubstantive grammatical changes. In compiling and preparing the ordinances and resolutions of the township for adoption and revision as part of the Code, certain nonsubstantive grammatical and style changes were made in one or more of said ordinances and resolutions. Additional similar changes are hereby made to various ordinances included in the Code as set forth in Schedule B attached hereto and made a part hereof. It is the intention of the Board of Supervisors that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances and resolutions so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such.
Editor's Note: Schedule B is on file in the township offices.
Editor's Note: In accordance with § 1-6B, the chapters, parts and sections which were added, amended, adopted or deleted by this ordinance are indicated throughout the Code by a footnote referring to Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article I. During routine supplementation, footnotes indicating amendments, additions or deletions will be replaced with the following history: "Amended (added, deleted) 1-5-1998 by Ord. No. 221." Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the township offices.
"Justice of the Peace" and "District Magistrate" are hereby amended to read "District Justice."
"Building Official" and "Code Enforcement Officer" are hereby amended to read "Building Inspector."
"Department of Environmental Resources (DER)" is hereby amended to read "Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)" or "Department of Conservation and Natural Resources," whichever is appropriate.
Statutory references. In regard to the adoption and reorganization of the Second Class Township Code, 53 P.S. § 65101 et seq., all statutory references to said code are hereby updated accordingly.
Any and all additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code, when passed and adopted in such form as to indicate the intention of the Board of Supervisors to be a part thereof, shall be deemed to be incorporated into such Code as that reference to the Code shall be understood and intended to include such changes. Whenever such additions, deletions, amendments or supplements to the Code shall be adopted, they shall thereafter be printed and, as provided hereunder, inserted in the post-bound book containing said Code as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Township Secretary, pursuant to law, shall cause to be published in the manner required a notice of the proposed adoption of the Code and public notice of a public hearing on Chapters 60 (zoning officer), 160 and 161 (subdivision and land development), and 210, 211, 212 and 214 (zoning and zoning use approval) in a newspaper of general circulation in the township. The enactment and application of this ordinance, coupled with the publication of the notice of the proposed adoption and public notice of public hearing, as required by law, and the availability of copies of the Code for inspection by the public, shall be deemed, held and considered to be due and legal publication of all provisions of the Code for all purposes.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding, shall pay a fine of not more than $600, plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, incurred by the township in the enforcement of this chapter. No judgment shall be imposed until the date of the determination of the violation by the District Justice and/or Court. 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 a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. Further, the appropriate officers or agents of the township are hereby authorized to seek equitable relief, including injunction, to enforce compliance herewith.
All provisions of this ordinance and of the Code shall be in force and effect on and after January 10, 1998.
The Building Inspector shall impose a civil penalty fine as prescribed by this article upon a determination that an ordinance and/or Code violation has occurred or is occurring.
The consequences of failure to pay the civil penalty on or before the due date.
In the event that the violator pays the prescribed civil penalty fine within 15 days of the date on the notice of violation, the civil penalty fine shall be reduced by a sum equal to 50% of the fine.
In the event that the violator fails to pay to Concord Township the civil penalty fine on or before the due date, Concord Township shall commence a civil enforcement proceeding in a court having jurisdiction.
Upon determining that a violation has or is occurring, the Building Inspector may, at the officer's sole discretion, issue a notice of violation, as prescribed herein, containing a grace period of not more than 30 days, permitting the violator to correct the violation and comply with the ordinance violated by the specified date. Compliance and the payment of 25% of the imposed civil penalty fine by the specified date shall constitute payment in full of the civil penalty fine. In determining whether to permit a grace period for ordinance violation correction, the Building Inspector shall consider the willfulness of the violation, likely damage to person and/or property, cost of correction and abatement, savings resulting to the person in consequence of such violation, disturbance to the peace and welfare of the community and other relevant factors.

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