PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1251 PRINTER'S NO. 1335
No. 1062 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY MURPHY, COSTA, WAGNER, BODACK, BRIGHTBILL, EARLL,
GERLACH, KITCHEN, MELLOW, PICCOLA AND ULIANA, JULY 22, 1997
SENATOR ULIANA, URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, AS AMENDED,
SEPTEMBER 29, 1997
AN ACT
1 Authorizing cities of the second class to impose property
2 maintenance ordinances; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES. <--
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Property maintenance ordinance.
6 A city of the second class may impose property maintenance
7 ordinances and any standard or nationally recognized property
8 maintenance code. The property maintenance ordinance may provide
9 penalties of fines not exceeding one per month on a property and
10 limited to no more than $1,000 for the first two continual and
11 uncorrected violations of the same subsection of such ordinance
12 on the same property and not exceeding $5,000 for the third and
13 any subsequent continual and uncorrected violation of the same
14 subsection of such ordinance on the same property.
15 Section 2. Graded penalties.
16 If a violation of the property maintenance ordinance is found
17 to pose a threat to the public's health, safety or property,
1 then penalties of fine may be provided for as follows:
2 (1) Not exceeding one citation per five calendar days
3 for a continual and uncorrected violation of the same
4 subsection of such ordinance on the same property.
5 (2) Limited to no less than $500 and no more than $1,000
6 for the first two continual and uncorrected violations of the
7 same subsection of such ordinance on the same property and no
8 less than $1,000 and not exceeding $10,000 for the third and
9 any subsequent continual and uncorrected violation of the
10 same subsection of such ordinance on the same property or to
11 imprisonment for any term not exceeding 90 days, or both.
12 SECTION 3. APPLICABILITY. <--
13 NOTHING IN THIS ACT SHALL SUPERSEDE ANY EXISTING PROPERTY
14 MAINTENANCE ORDINANCE IN A CITY OF THE SECOND CLASS IF THE
15 EXISTING PROPERTY MAINTENANCE ORDINANCE OR ITS FINES AND
16 PENALTIES ARE, AT A MINIMUM, GRADED THE SAME OR HIGHER AS THOSE
17 SET FORTH IN THIS ACT.
18 Section 3 4. Effective date. <--
19 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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