This Chapter shall not apply to any existing or proposed buildings, or extension thereof, used or to be used by a public utility corporation, if, upon petition of the corporation, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission shall, after a public hearing, decide that the present or proposed building in question is reasonably necessary for the convenience or welfare of the public.

This exemption shall not apply to communications antennas, communications equipment buildings and communications towers for wireless telecommunications services regulated under the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

If any article, section, subsection, provision, regulation, limitation, restriction, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this Chapter is declared for any reason to be illegal, unconstitutional, or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect or impair the validity of this Chapter as a whole, or any other article, section, subsection, provision, regulation, limitation, restriction, sentence, clause, phrase, word, or remaining portion of this Chapter. The Board of Commissioners of Annville Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, hereby declares that it would have adopted the ordinance codified in this Chapter and each article, section, subsection, provision, regulation, limitation, restriction, sentence, clause, phrase and word thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more of the articles, sections, subsections, provisions, regulations, limitations, restrictions, sentences, clauses, phrases or words may be declared illegal, unconstitutional or invalid.

All ordinances or parts of ordinances, together with the amendments and supplements thereto, are hereby repealed to the extent that the same conflict with the provisions of this Chapter; provided, however, that the provisions of this Chapter shall not affect any suit or prosecution pending or to be instituted to enforce any provision of such repealed ordinance or to punish any offense against any such repealed ordinance committed prior to the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter.

Ordinance No. 407 is hereby repealed and replaced with this Chapter, entitled “Zoning.”

The ordinance codified in this Chapter shall become effective five days after the date of its enactment.