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Carthage City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XI

- VIOLATION AND PENALTIES

[Sec. 1. - Penalty.]

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this zoning ordinance or who shall fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall erect or alter any building, or who shall commence to erect or alter any building in violation of any detailed statement of plan submitted or approved thereunder, shall for each and every violation or noncompliance be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $200.00, and each day such violations shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense. The owner of that building or premises or part thereof where anything in violation of this zoning ordinance shall be placed or shall exist, and any architect, builder, contractor, agent, person, or corporation employed in connection therewith who may have assisted in the commission of any such violation shall each be guilty of a separate offense, and upon conviction shall be subject to the penalties herein provided.

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1984-7, enacted Aug. 13, 1984, amended all fine and penalty provisions that govern fire safety, zoning and public health and sanitation by substituting $1,000.00 for $200.00. Sec. 1-5(b) for codification of such provisions.