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Township of Mount Joy, PA General Provisions
§ 1-1 Re-approval, adoption and enactment of Code.
Ch 1 Art II Reasonable Attorney Fees
§ 1-16 Recovery of fees for Township.
§ 1-17 Compilation and certification of fees.
Article II Reasonable Attorney Fees
[Adopted 11-20-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-8]
Pursuant to Section 1601(d) [53 P.S. § 66601(d)] of the Second Class Township Code, the codification of a complete body of legislation for the Township of Mount Joy, County of Adams, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as revised, codified and consolidated into titles, chapters and sections by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapters 1 through 110, together with an Appendix, are hereby approved, adopted, ordained and enacted as a single ordinance of the Township of Mount Joy, which shall be known and is hereby designated as the "Code of the Township of Mount Joy," 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 Mount Joy, 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 Only such provisions of former ordinances as are omitted from this Code shall be deemed repealed or abrogated by the provisions of § 1-3 below, and only new or changed provisions, as described in § 1-6 below, shall be deemed to be enacted from the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Township of Mount Joy and in force on the date of the adoption of this Code and not contained in the Code are hereby repealed as of the effective date given in § 1-15 below, except as hereinafter provided.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 July 12, 1994.
All legislation related to cable television.
Substantive changes and revisions. In addition to the changes and revisions described above, changes and revisions of a substantive nature are hereby made to various ordinances and resolutions included in the Code as set forth in Schedule A attached hereto and made a part hereof. These changes are made to bring provisions into conformity with the desired policies of the Board of Supervisors, and it is the intent of the Board of Supervisors that all such changes be adopted as part of the Code as if the legislation so changed have been previously formally amended to read as such. All such changes and revisions shall be deemed to be in effect as of the effective date of the Code specified in § 1-15.[1]
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) 11-20-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-8." Schedule A, which contains a complete description of all changes, is on file in the Township offices.
Throughout the Code, references to the "Department of Environmental Resources" are hereby amended to refer to either "the Department of Environmental Protection" or "the Department of Environmental Conservation," as appropriate.
The Township Secretary, pursuant to law, shall cause to be published in the manner required a notice of the introduction and of the adoption of the Code in a newspaper of general circulation in the Township. The enactment and application of this ordinance, coupled with the publication of the notices of introduction and adoption, 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.
All provisions of this ordinance and of the Code shall be in force and effect on and after its acceptance in April of 1996, and the effective date of this reacceptance and adopted ordinance shall be November 20, 2003.
Article II: Reasonable Attorney Fees
[Adopted 12-18-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-9]
Whenever any statute, regulation, law, court order, or other pronouncement permits the Township to recover attorney fees from an adverse party or another participant in an action or proceeding, and a specific amount of fees to be recovered is not specified in such statute, regulation, law, court order or other pronouncement, then the Township shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees.
"Reasonable attorney fees" shall be calculated as:
The customary hourly amount charged by the Solicitor or other attorney providing representation to the Township multiplied by the number of hours (or parts thereof) devoted to the matter at hand;
The customary fee charged to the Township by the Solicitor or the attorney providing legal services to the Township; or
The amount actually billed to the Township in the matter at hand.
The Township's Secretary is hereby authorized, upon request from the Board of Supervisors, Township Solicitor or any other attorney retained to represent the Township, to compile and certify the fees paid to an attorney in any particular case for use in recouping such fees from an adverse party or other participant in any proceeding. Nothing herein shall limit the Solicitor or attorney from preparing such a compilation and certification for presentation to any tribunal as evidence of reasonable attorney fees incurred in an action or proceeding.