Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter 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 or plans 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 two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); and each day such violation 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 chapter shall be placed or shall exist, and any architect, builder, contractor, agent or corporation employed in connection therewith, who may have assisted in the commission of such violation, shall be guilty of a separate offense and, upon conviction, shall be subject to the penalties herein provided.

(Code 1962, § 11-19-1; Ord. No. 84-08, § 1, 2-14-84; Ord. No. 87-45, § 6, 11-25-87)

State Law reference— Enforcement of zoning ordinance, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Art. 1011h.