Section 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, if any supervisor or supervisors of any township in this commonwealth shall, after ten days notice, neglect or refuse to put up and keep in complete repair, the index-boards directed to be set up by the twenty-fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, every supervisor so offending and being thereof legally convicted by the oath or affirmation of one or more credible witness or witnesses before any justice of the peace, or before the court of quarter sessions of said county, shall respectively pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars in the discretion of the court or justice before whom such conviction shall be had, to be applied and expended in keeping in repair the public highways in the townships respectively.
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.