202.04 SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS.
Each section and each part of each section of these Codified Ordinances, including each section and each part of each section of any standard technical code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, is hereby declared to be an independent section or part of a section and, notwithstanding any other evidence of legislative intent, it is hereby declared to be the controlling legislative intent that if any such section or part of a section, or any provision thereof, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining sections or parts of sections and the application of such provision to any other person or circumstance, other than those as to which it is held invalid or unconstitutional, shall not be affected thereby, and it is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that these Codified Ordinances would have been adopted independently of such section or part of a section so held to be invalid or unconstitutional.
202.05 SECTIONS AND ORDINANCES REPEALED.
All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations of the Municipality, and parts of the same, in conflict with any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances, are hereby repealed.
202.06 EXEMPTIONS FROM REPEAL.
The repeal provided for in Section 202. 05 shall not affect:
(a) Any offense or act committed or done, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred, or any contract or right established or accruing, before the adoption of these Codified Ordinances;
(b) Any ordinance or resolution promising or guaranteeing the payment of money by or to the Municipality, or authorizing the issuance of any bonds of the Municipality, or any evidence of the Municipality indebtedness, or any contract or obligation assumed by the Municipality;
(c) The administrative ordinances and resolutions of Council not in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of these Codified Ordinances;
(d) Any right, license or franchise conferred by any ordinance or resolution of the Board of Township Commissioners on any person;
(e) Any ordinance or resolution establishing, naming, relocating or vacating any street or other public way;
(f) Any ordinance or resolution or part thereof providing for the establishment of positions, for salaries or compensation;
(g) Any prosecution, suit or other proceeding pending, or any judgment rendered, on or prior to the adoption of these Codified Ordinances;
(h) Any ordinance or resolution levying or imposing taxes or assessments;
(i) Any ordinance or resolution establishing or changing the boundaries of the Municipality; or
(j) Any ordinance or resolution adopted by the Board of Township Commissioners after the adoption of these Codified Ordinances.
202.99 GENERAL CODE PENALTY; COMPLICITY.
(a) Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances relating to building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire or public safety, or relating to water, air or noise pollution, including any provision of any standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, and including any rule or regulation promulgated under authority of any such standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of any other provision of these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of State law, and, specifically, any of the provisions of Chapters 660, 680, 1420, 1423, 1424, 1426, 1428, 1440, 1442, 1444, 1446, 1448, 1450, 1452, 1460, 1610, 1804, 1808, 1816, 1824, 1828, 1844, 1856, 1860 and 1868, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) plus the costs of prosecution. For a violation of or noncompliance with any other provision of these Codified Ordinances, the offender shall be fined not more than six hundred dollars ($600.00) plus the costs of prosecution. All of such fines and costs may be collected by suit brought in the name of the Township before any District Justice and in like manner as debts of like amount may be sued for under existing laws. In default of the payment of any such fine and costs, the offender may be imprisoned for not more than thirty days in the County Jail or Workhouse, for each offense. Unless otherwise provided, a separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues. The penalty provided for herein shall be in addition to any fee, deposit, charge, surcharge, interest, insurance or bond requirement or equitable remedy provided in these Codified Ordinances, or in any standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or in any rule or regulation promulgated under authority of any such standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of any other provision of these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of State law.
(b) Every person who commits or aids or abets in the commission of any act declared in these Codified Ordinances or in any other ordinance of the Borough to be an offense, whether individually or in connection with another person, or as principal, agent or accessory, shall be guilty of such offense. Every person who falsely, fraudulently, forcibly or willfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits or directs another to violate any provision of these Codified Ordinances or any other ordinance of the Township shall likewise be guilty of such offense.
1993 Replacement