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Timestamp: 2020-08-11 12:35:49
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 65741', '§ 23', '§ 23', '§ 23', '§ 23', '§ 37', '§ 47', '§ 52', '§ 57', '§ 62', '§ 67', '§ 70', '§ 73', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 79', '§ 83', '§ 83']

Township of Hempfield, PA General Provisions
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Hempfield: Art. I, 12-29-1975 as Ord. No. 75-39. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-29-1975 as Ord. No. 75-39]
The codification of a complete body of ordinances for the Township of Hempfield, County of Westmoreland, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., consisting of Chapters 1 through 87, together with an Appendix and Index, is hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as the "Code of the Township of Hempfield," hereinafter known and referred to as the "Code," pursuant to XLI.1 (53 P.S. § 65741.1) of the Second Class Township Code.
All provisions of the Code shall be in full force and effect on and after December 29, 1975.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of a general and permanent nature adopted by the Township of Hempfield and in force on the date of the adoption of this ordinance, and not contained in the Code, are hereby repealed as of the effective date of this ordinance, except as hereinafter provided.
Any ordinance adopted subsequent to March 24, 1975.
In compiling and preparing the ordinances of the Township of Hempfield for adoption and revision as part of the Code, certain grammatical changes and other minor changes were made in one or more of said ordinances. It is the intention of the Board of Supervisors that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed had been previously formally amended to read as such.
Certain changes of a substantive nature were made to various ordinances found within the Code and certain new materials have been added to the Code. These changes and additions were made to bring the provisions into conformity with the desired policies of the Board of Supervisors and it is the intent of the Supervisors that all such changes and additions be adopted as part of the Code as if the ordinances so changed or added had been previously formally amended to read as such. Such changes and additions are cited within the historical statements by the term "amended at time of adoption of Code" or "adopted at time of adoption of Code." These changes and additions are further detailed as follows.[1]
Editor's Note: The following sections or chapters of the Code were amended or added pursuant to § I-6B. A complete description of these amendments and additions is on file in the office of the
Township Secretary. Amendments: Ch. 20; § 23-5; § 23-6; § 23-12A, B and C; § 23-43; § 37-2; Ch. 41; § 47-8; § 52-8; § 57-14A; § 62-12; § 67-9; § 70-13; Ch. 73, Art. II; § 73-17; Ch. 76; § 79-1; § 79-2C; § 79-3; § 79-6C; § 79-9A; § 79-12; § 79-13; § 79-14; § 79-18; § 79-20; § 79-22D; § 79-24A; § 79-26; § 79-33; § 79-34; § 79-39; § 83-23; and § 83-28A.
A copy of the Code in a post-bound volume has been filed in the office of the Secretary of the Board of Supervisors and shall remain there for use and examination by the public until final action is taken on this ordinance; and if this ordinance shall be adopted, such copy shall be certified to by the Secretary of the Board of Supervisors, as provided by law, and such certified copy shall remain on file in the office of the Secretary, available to persons desiring to examine the same during all times while the said Code is in effect.
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 so 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 the said Code, as amendments and supplements thereto.
The Secretary of the Board of Supervisors, pursuant to law, shall cause to be published, in the manner required, a notice of the adoption of this ordinance adopting the Code in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township of Hempfield. Sufficient copies of the Code shall be maintained in the office of the Secretary for inspection by the public at all times during regular office hours. The enactment and application of this ordinance adopting the Code, coupled with 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.
It shall be unlawful for anyone to improperly change or amend, by additions or deletions, any part or portion of the Code or to alter or tamper with such Code in any manner whatsoever which will cause the law of the Township of Hempfield to be misrepresented thereby. Anyone found by the District Justice to have violated this ordinance shall be subject to a civil fine not to exceed $600, plus all court costs and reasonable attorney's fees incurred by Hempfield Township in the enforcement of this ordinance in a civil enforcement proceeding.