Section 509 - Ordinances and resolutions(a) The commissioners may adopt resolutions and ordinances prescribing the manner in which powers of the county shall be carried out and generally regulating the affairs of the county. The commissioners may formulate and adopt ordinances, resolutions, and rules and regulations, pertaining to the use of any property owned or used by the county and the conduct of persons in, on or about such county property, in order to preserve such property and to promote and preserve the public health, safety and welfare.(b) All proposed ordinances, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be published at least once in one newspaper of general circulation in the county not more than sixty days nor less than seven days prior to passage. Public notices of any proposed ordinance shall include either the full text or the title and a brief summary of the proposed ordinance prepared by the county solicitor setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail and a reference to a place within the county where copies of the proposed ordinance may be examined. If the full text is not included a copy thereof shall be supplied to the same newspaper of general circulation in which the public notice is published. If the full text is not included, an attested copy thereof shall be filed in the county law library within thirty days after enactment. The date of such filing shall not affect the validity of the process of the enactment or adoption of the ordinance; and a failure to record within the time provided shall not be deemed a defect in the process of the enactment or adoption of the ordinance. In the event substantial amendments are made in the proposed ordinance or resolution, the commissioners shall , at least ten days prior to enactment, re-advertise in one newspaper of general circulation in the county, a brief summary setting forth all the provisions in reasonable detail together with a summary of the amendments. Ordinances shall not become effective until recorded in the ordinance book of the county. In any case in which maps, plans or drawings of any kind are adopted as part of an ordinance, the commissioners may, instead of publishing the same as part of the ordinance, refer in publishing the ordinance to the place where such maps, plans or drawings are on file and may be examined.(c) The commissioners may also prescribe fines and penalties not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for a violation of a building, housing, property maintenance, health, fire or public safety code or ordinance and for water, air and noise pollution violations, and not exceeding six hundred dollars ($600) for a violation of any other county ordinance, which fines and penalties may be collected by suit, brought in the name of the county, in like manner as debts of like amount may be sued for.(d) Any person violating any of the ordinances adopted by the commissioners pursuant to this section shall, upon conviction thereof at a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay such fine as may be prescribed in such ordinances by the commissioners but not in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000), to be paid to the use of the county, with costs of prosecution, or to be imprisoned for not more than ten days, or both. Amended by P.L. TBD 2018 No. 154, § 14, eff. 12/24/2018.1955, Aug. 9, P.L. 323, § 509. Amended 1974, Feb. 1, P.L. 22, No. 7, § 1; 1976, July 9, P.L. 532, No. 128, § 1; 1988, March 2, P.L. 107, No. 21, § 1, effective in 60 days.