(a) General rule.--The Uniform Construction Code shall apply
to the construction, alteration, repair and occupancy of all
buildings and structures within a township.
(b) Primacy.--This section and an ordinance, rule or
regulation adopted under this section, including an ordinance
exceeding the requirements of the Uniform Construction Code,
shall not supersede or abrogate the act of November 10, 1999
(P.L.491, No.45), known as the Pennsylvania Construction Code
Act, and shall conform to, and be construed and read in pari
materia with the provisions of that act.
Section 1703-A. Public nuisance.
A building, housing or property, or part of a building,
housing or property erected, altered, extended, reconstructed,
removed or maintained, contrary to a provision of an ordinance
passed for a purpose specified in this article may be declared,
by a court of law, a public nuisance, and may be abatable as
such. However, a violation of the Uniform Construction Code or
an ordinance that equals or exceeds the Uniform Construction
Code shall be subject to the provisions of the Uniform
Construction Code and the regulations adopted thereunder by the
Department of Labor and Industry relating to enforcement for
noncompliance.
Section 1704-A. Property maintenance code.
(a) Property maintenance code.--Notwithstanding the primacy
of the Uniform Construction Code, the township supervisors may
enact a property maintenance ordinance, and they may incorporate
a standard or nationally recognized property maintenance code,
or a variation or change or part of the code, published and
printed in book form, without incorporating the text of the code
in the ordinance, or the supervisors may enact a standard or
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