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Hamlin Township Supervisors were sued last year for failure to uphold it's ordinance #21, The Hamlin Township Junkyard Ordinance. This suit, even tho they 'won', still cost the Taxpayers of Hamlin Township Seventeen Hundred dollars and change to defend in the Court of Law.

I, admin of this site, brought this lawsuit(by myself, without an attorney). I filed the nescesarry paperwork and represented myself along with a law that has been on the books since Aug. '89... Wasn't asking for a new law or any favors in any way, just looking for our law to be enforced.

Anyways, the lawyer from Erie charged the Township to defend it the above figure and it cost me less than $150.00 and my time. But the Judge had to give me a hearing, had to give me my day in court because, after all, it's a law.

A law that is backed by a Federal Mandate which required the States to enact a law, which required Municipalities to establish a law to keep 'scrap yards, junk yards, junk dealers' off of Federal Aid Highways or risk losing maintenance funds for those roads thru the Township, the penalty being 10% per violation. In this Township, that is Route 219, Route 6 and the road to the Kinzua Bridge State Park. Use your thoughts and see in our Township how many violations there might be and multiply by 10. 5 or more violations have been brought to the Supervisors, so let's just use a 40% figure, four violations of a Federal Law.

Will the Attorney from Erie, on this next lawsuit, be willing to 'fight the fight' against the State and the Feds. If so, it would be for a price and in the end, the taxpayers are stuck for the tab while the Supervisors are not out a nickel, wrong. You were elected/appointed to uphold the laws of the Township and protect all of the citizens.

Anyways, the Feds and Commonwealth are looking for places to cut in this economic time, I wonder if this type of Lawsuit has any chance of failing. Instead of cutting funding for public schools, counties and municipalities, they cut back on violations of existing laws, liquid fuels violations.

Yet the state law requires that the maintenance to these roads still have to be done. Yeah, the roads still have to be maintained, but now 40% of that cost will come from the General Fund of our Township.

When will the supervisors get it...?