Unless otherwise determined within this chapter, any person that shall violate this chapter or do any act or thing therein prohibited, or refuse or fail to do any act or thing therein required to be done, or refuse or fail to comply with an order of the Zoning Officer or an order of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, shall, upon conviction thereof before a court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit and pay such fine not exceeding the sum of $1,250. The violator shall be provided a thirty-day period to cure or abate the violation. The court in its initial ruling or upon failure by the violator to cure or abate the violation within the thirty-day period may increase the penalty to the maximum of $2,000.

Any person who is convicted of violating an ordinance within one year of the date of a previous violation of the same ordinance and who was fined for the previous violation shall be sentenced by a court to an additional fine as a repeat offender. The additional fine imposed by the court upon a person for a repeated offense shall not be less than the minimum or exceed the maximum fine fixed for a violation of the ordinance, but shall be calculated separately from the fine imposed for the violation of the ordinance.

Any natural person convicted of the violation of this chapter may, in the discretion of the court by which he was convicted, and in default of payment of any fine imposed therefor, be imprisoned in the county jail for any term not exceeding 90 days, or be required to perform community service for a period not exceeding 90 days.