It is unlawful to violate the provisions of this ordinance or to fail to comply with any of its requirements (including violations of conditions and safeguards established in connection with grants of variances, special exceptions, conditions, or conditional uses). Any person who violates this ordinance or fails to comply with any of its requirements shall upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $1,000.00 and in addition shall pay all costs and expenses involved in the case. Each day such violation continues shall be considered a separate offense.

The owner or tenant of any building, structure, premises, or part thereof, and any architect, builder, contractor, agent or other person who commits, participates in, assist in, or maintains such violation may each be found guilty of a separate offense and suffer the penalties herein provided.

Nothing herein contained shall prevent the county from taking such other lawful civil, criminal, quasi-civil or quasi-criminal action as is necessary to prevent or remedy any violation.

If any building or structure is constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or if any building, structure or land is used in violation of this ordinance, the board of commissioners of Coweta County, the building official, the director, or any other appropriate county authority, or any adjacent property owner who would be damaged by such violation, in addition to other remedies, may institute an injunction, mandamus or other appropriate action in proceeding to stop the violation in the case of such building, structure or land use.

(Ord. No. 035-08, 11-18-08; Ord. No. 049-19, 10-1-19)

Should any section or provision of this ordinance be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not effect [affect] the validity of the ordinance as a whole, or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.