Attica City Zoning Code
18.105 Remedies
and Penalties
Statutory reference: IC 36-7-4-1000 et seq. addresses remedies and enforcement.
18.105.010 Remedies.
A. The city plan commission, the board of zoning appeals, the building commissioner, or any designated enforcement official, or any person or persons, firm or corporation jointly or severally aggrieved, may institute a suit for injunction in the circuit court of Fountain County to restrain an individual or a governmental unit from violating the provisions of this title.
B. The city plan commission or the board of zoning appeals may also institute a suit for mandatory injunction directing an individual, a corporation or a governmental unit to remove a structure erected in violation of any provisions of this title or the requirements thereof.
C. Any building erected, raised, or converted, or land or premises used in violation of any provision of this title or the requirements thereof is hereby declared to be a common nuisance and as such may be abated in such manner as nuisances are now or may hereafter be abated under existing law. [Ord. 6, 1990 § 20-1; Code 1999 § 10-120.]
18.105.020 Penalties.
Any person or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this title or fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall alter the use of land or build, reconstruct, or structurally alter any building without first securing an improvement location permit, or who shall build, reconstruct or structurally alter any building in violation of any detailed statement or plan submitted and approved thereunder, or who shall occupy such altered land use or new or structurally altered building prior to securing a certificate of occupancy, shall, for each and every violation or noncompliance, be guilty of an ordinance violation and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $25.00 and not more than $1,000. [Ord. 6, 1990 § 20-2; Code 1999 § 10-121.]