NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Ordinance will be considered for adoption by the Rostraver Township Board of Commissioners at their Special Meeting to be held on Wednesday, January 20, 2016, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, at the Rostraver Township Municipal Building, 201 Municipal Drive, Belle Vernon, PA 15012. The proposed Ordinance pertains to the following: BILL NO. 673 ORDINANCE NO. 673 INTRODUCED BY: FIRST READING: FINAL READING: ADOPTED: AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWNSHIP OF ROSTRAVER, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AMENDING THE ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE IN ORDER TO AMEND THE ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES IN ARTICLE IX WHEREAS, Rostraver Township is empowered to regulate land use activities that affect stormwater runoff by the authority of the Act of July 31, 1968, P.L. 805, No. 247, the Municipalities Planning Code (MPC) as amended, and Act of October 4, 1978, P.L. 864, Act 167, the Stormwater Management Act, and the appropriate municipal code; and WHEREAS, pursuant to its authority under the MPC and the Stormwater Management Act, the Board of Commissioners of Rostraver Township (the "Board") enacted Rostraver Township Stormwater Management Ordinance, Ordinance No. 492, to regulate land use activities that affect stormwater runoff within the Township; and NOW THEREFORE, the Board hereby ordains and enacts as follows, incorporating the above recitals by reference: SECTION 1. Article IX Section 164-58 A of the Rostraver Township Stormwater Management Ordinance, Violations and Penalties, is amended by inserting the following underlined text and by removing the following stricken text: A. Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor summary offence and upon conviction before a District Judge, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $150 for each violation, recoverable with costs, or imprisonment of not more than 30 days, or both. Each day that the violation continues shall be a separate offense. SECTION 2. Repealer. All other ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency. SECTION 3. Severability. If any sentence, clause, section or other part of this Ordinance is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this Ordinance would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein. SECTION 4. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective upon adoption. ORDAINED AND ENACTED as an Ordinance of the Township of Rostraver this ___ day of _______________, 2016. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS TOWNSHIP OF ROSTRAVER BY: Gary N. BECK, SR., President ATTEST: Pamela S. BEARD Township Secretary
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