It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to solicit or advertise for purposes of selling or renting property or portions of property or a structure or any portion thereof located on such property or portions of property when such sale or rental will result in such property or structure or any portion thereof being occupied or utilized in violation or contravention of the uses permitted by this chapter in the zoning district in which such property or structure is located.

In any prosecution for a violation of this article, it shall not be a defense that the person charged with such violation lacked knowledge at the time of the violation of the use or uses permitted in the zoning district in which such property or structures thereon were located.

In the event that a person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this article shall have been licensed by the State of New York as a real estate broker or salesman at the time of such violation, it shall be the duty of the Village Prosecutor to transmit a record of such conviction to the Division of Licensing Services of the Department of State and to make complaint thereto against such licensee, on behalf of the Village, pursuant to the provision of Article 12-A of the Real Property Law.