Code Enforcement for Grass

[Brian Larson]

Hello.  I need some advice.  We have a property in Westmoreland County with an adjacent vacant lot.  We maintain the property with the help of a local property manager.  The Property Management pay a local landscaper to cut the grass of the adjacent lot so we do not get cited.  We have had issues with this not being cut sometimes and we recently received a citation from the local municipality.  Our property management company claimed that they would address the issue.  They did not and now we have been fined.  Then, our property management offered to pay the fine but now we are having issues with the local municipality because they have fine us TWICE (once for me and once for my wife).

My question to the forum is -- How is this legal?  Code enforcement can't fine each owner a separate fine for the same issue, can they?  This is crazy for slightly overgrown grass.  Has anyone else dealt with this before?  If so, any advice?  This entire thing just seems like a scheme to make more money for the small township.