PRINTER'S NO. 1962
No. 1648 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, HERSHEY, TRELLO, BELARDI, FARGO, MERRY,
CHADWICK, DiGIROLAMO, PETTIT, EGOLF, HENNESSEY, CLARK,
HALUSKA, STERN AND SERAFINI, MAY 23, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
MAY 23, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1535, No.537),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the planning and
3 regulation of community sewage systems and individual sewage
4 systems; requiring municipalities to submit plans for systems
5 in their jurisdiction; authorizing grants; requiring permits
6 for persons installing such systems; requiring disclosure
7 statements in certain land sale contracts; authorizing the
8 Department of Environmental Resources to adopt and administer
9 rules, regulations, standards and procedures; creating an
10 advisory committee; providing remedies and prescribing
11 penalties," further providing for penalties.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Section 13 of the act of January 24, 1966 (1965
15 P.L.1535, No.537), known as the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities
16 Act, amended December 14, 1994 (P.L. , No.149) and repealed in
17 part October 5, 1980 (P.L.693, No.142), is amended to read:
18 Section 13. Penalties.--Any person who shall violate any
19 provision of this act or the rules, regulations or standards
20 promulgated pursuant to this act or who is the owner of a
21 property on which a condition exists which constitutes a
1 nuisance under this act or who resists or interferes with any
2 officer, agent or employe of a local agency or the department,
3 in accordance with the provisions of this act, in the
4 performance of his duties, shall be guilty of a summary offense.
5 Upon conviction thereof, such person shall be sentenced to pay a
6 fine of not less than [five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than
7 five thousand dollars ($5,000), plus costs, or to imprisonment
8 not to exceed ninety days, or both.] one hundred dollars ($100)
9 and costs, and not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) and
10 costs, or in default thereof, shall be confined in the county
11 jail for a period of not more than thirty days.
12 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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