The zoning administrator shall administer and enforce this article. He may be provided with the assistance of such other persons as the city manager may direct. He shall be designated the zoning administrator.

If the zoning administrator shall find that any of the provisions of this article are being violated, he shall notify in writing the person responsible for such violations, indicating the nature of the violations, indicating the nature of the violation and ordering the action necessary to correct it. He shall order discontinuance of illegal use of land, buildings, or structures; removal of illegal buildings or structures or of additions, alterations, or structural changes thereto; discontinuance of any illegal work being done; or shall take any other action authorized by this article to insure compliance with or to prevent violation of its provisions.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this article 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 or any detailed statements 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 two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) and each day such violation shall be permitted to exist shall be construed to constitute a separate offense. The owner of that building, premises, or use or part thereof where anything in violation of this article 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 any such violation shall each be guilty of a separate offense and upon conviction shall be subject to the penalties herein provided.

No building or other structure shall be erected, moved, added to, or structurally altered without a permit therefor, issued by the permits department. No building permit shall be issued except in conformity with the provisions of this article, except after written order from the board of adjustment.

If actual construction of the work described in any building permit has not begun within one hundred eighty (180) days from the date of issuance thereof, said permit shall expire and shall be cancelled by the building official. Written notice thereof shall be given to the original applicant at the address given in said application. Actual construction is hereby defined to include the placing of construction materials in permanent position and fastened in a permanent manner, except that where demolition or removal of an existing structure has been substantially begun preparatory to rebuilding, provided that work shall be diligently carried on until completion of the structure involved.

Building permits issued on the basis of plans and applications approved by the zoning administrator authorize only the use, arrangement, and construction set forth in such approved plans and applications, and no other use, arrangement, or construction shall be permitted. Use, arrangement or construction of that not authorized shall be deemed violation of this article, and punishable as provided by this article.