promote the public health, safety, morals, and the general
welfare, to enact and enforce suitable ordinances to govern and
regulate the construction, alteration, repairs, occupation,
maintenance, sanitation, lighting, ventilation, water supply,
toilet facilities, drainage, use, and inspection of all
buildings and housing, or parts of buildings and housing,
constructed, erected, altered, designed or used, in whole or in
part, for human habitation or occupancy, and of the sanitation
and inspection of land appurtenant thereto in accordance with
Article XXXI-A. [In case any building, housing or structure is
constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or
maintained, or any building, housing or land is used, in
violation of any ordinance enacted under authority conferred
hereby, the board of township commissioners, in addition to
penalties provided by ordinances enacted hereunder, may
institute appropriate actions or proceedings, at law or in
equity, to prevent and restrain such unlawful construction,
reconstruction, alteration, repairs, conversion, maintenance or
use, and to restrain, correct, or abate such violation and to
prevent the occupancy of said building, housing or structure.
The ordinances enacted pursuant to this clause shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of any statute governing the
same matter, but all regulations prescribed by such ordinances,
which are additional or supplementary to the statute law and not
inconsistent therewith, or enacted for the purpose of carrying
into effect the provisions of the statute law, shall be valid
and binding. Such ordinances may adopt any standard building
code and any standard housing code, published and printed in
book form, covering any or all of the above items, without
incorporating such building code and such housing code in the
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