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Seven Fields City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XI

Enforcement, Violations and Penalties

§ 340-74 Enforcement.

The Zoning Officer or a person duly appointed and designated by the Borough Council shall administer this chapter in accordance with its literal terms and shall not have the power to permit any construction or any use or change of uses which does not conform to the chapter. The Zoning Officer shall be responsible for instituting enforcement proceedings, including enforcement proceedings for civil penalties for violations of this chapter.

§ 340-75 Enforcement remedies.

A. 
Any person, partnership or corporation who or which has violated or permitted the violation of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the Borough, pay a judgment of not more than $500, plus all court costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Borough as a result thereof. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or payable until the date of the determination of a violation by the Magisterial District Judge. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the Borough 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 Magisterial District Judge, determining that there has been a violation, further determines that there was a good faith basis for the person, partnership or corporation violating the ordinance to believe 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 Magisterial District Judge, and thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. All judgments, costs and reasonable attorneys' fees collected for the violation of this chapter shall be paid over to the Borough.
B. 
In case any building, structure or land is, or is proposed to be, erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted, maintained or used in violation of this chapter, the Borough Council or, with the approval of the Borough Council, an officer of the Borough may, in addition to other remedies, institute in the name of the Borough any appropriate action or proceeding to prevent, restrain, correct or abate such building, structure or land, or to prevent, in or about such premises, any act, conduct, business or use constituting a violation of this chapter.