PRINTER'S NO. 221
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
330
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY WARD, ARGALL, BLAKE, YUDICHAK, VULAKOVICH,
STEFANO, WOZNIAK, WHITE AND RAFFERTY, JANUARY 26, 2015
REFERRED TO URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, JANUARY 26, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in neighborhood blight reclamation and
revitalization, providing for failure to comply with a code
requirement.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 53 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 6115. Failure to comply with a code requirement.
(a) Offense defined.--The owner of real property commits the
offense of failure to comply with a code requirement if all of
the following apply:
(1) The owner of real property has been convicted of a
second or subsequent serious violation of the same provision
of a municipal building code for the same property.
(2) The violation poses a threat to the public's health,
safety or property or is considered a public nuisance.
(3) A reasonable attempt has not been made by the owner
of real property to correct the violation.
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(b) Grading.--Failure to comply with a code requirement
shall constitute a:
(1) Misdemeanor of the second degree if the offense is a
second conviction of a serious violation of the same
provision of a municipal building code relating to the same
property.
(2) Misdemeanor of the first degree if the offense is
based on three or more convictions of serious violations of
the same provision of a municipal building code relating to
the same property.
(c) Penalty.--
(1) An owner of real property convicted under subsection
(b)(1) shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
less than 10 days, undergo a minimum of six months' probation
and pay a fine of not less than $1,000.
(2) An owner of real property convicted under subsection
(b)(2) shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not
less than 30 days, undergo a minimum of 12 months' probation
and pay a fine of not less than $3,000.
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar
as they are inconsistent with this act.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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