This Chapter establishes procedures, remedies, and penalties for violations of the City’s Land Use Ordinances, including this Ordinance.

The City, or any adversely affected owner of real estate within the City, in which violations of this Ordinance occur, or are about to occur may, in addition to other remedies provided by law, institute:

1. Injunctions, Mandamus, Abatement, or any other appropriate actions; or
   
2. Proceedings to prevent, enjoin, abate, or remove the unlawful building, use, or act.
   
3. The City may also enforce this Ordinance, or other City Land Use Ordinances, by withholding building permits, where permitted by the Act.
   

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this Ordinance, cause the violation of any provision of this Ordinance, or fail or refuse to do some act required under this Ordinance, including:

1. To engage in any development, use, construction, remodeling, or other activity of any nature upon the land and improvements without required Land Use Application approvals.
   
2. To engage in any development, use, construction, remodeling, or other activity that is contrary to the terms and conditions of any Land Use Application approval.
   
3. To violate, by act or omission, any lawful requirement or condition imposed by the Land Use Authority, as applicable, upon a required Land Use Application approval.
   
4. To erect, construct, reconstruct, remodel, alter, maintain, move, or use any building or structure, or to use any land in violation of this Ordinance, the Building Codes, or other City Land Use Ordinances, as applicable.
   
5. To reduce or diminish any lot or parcel area so that minimum area, setbacks or open spaces shall be smaller than prescribed by this Ordinance, or other City Land Use Ordinances, or required for Land Use Application approval or Subdivision Application approval.
   
6. To increase the density or intensity of use of any land or structure without the necessary Land Use Application approval.
   
7. To remove, deface, obscure, or otherwise interfere with any notice required by this Ordinance, or other City Land Use Ordinances.

1. A Land Use Authority may revoke a Land Use Application approval if it is determined that the application was based on inaccurate, misleading, or incomplete information provided by the Applicant.
   
2. A Land Use Application approved may be revoked by the Land Use Authority if any of the requirements, terms or conditions of approval are not met, or if the permit is used to violate any law or Ordinance.

The Zoning Administrator or City Recorder shall notify the Applicant by certified mail of any Land Use Application approval violation. If no attempt to correct the violation is made within ten (10) calendar days after notification, the Land Use Application may be revoked by the Land Use Authority and considered null and void. A Land Use Application approval may be revoked by the Land Use Authority, if the Land Use Authority finds that one or more of the following exist:

1. The Land Use Application approval was obtained in a fraudulent manner.
   
2. One or more of the requirements, terms or conditions of the Land Use Application approval has not been met.
   
3. A Land Use Authority may modify the requirements, terms, or conditions of a Land Use Application approval if the Land Use Authority finds that the use is creating a nuisance.

The City Engineer, or other city-authorized engineering firm, is authorized to issue a stop work order on any development activity, that is or may be in violation of city adopted ordinances, construction standards, or approved construction plans, or which is hazardous or detrimental to city residents or public infrastructure systems.

A violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance is punishable as a Class C misdemeanor upon conviction either:

1. As a Class C misdemeanor; or
   
2. By imposing the appropriate civil penalty.

The Council hereby establishes civil penalties for violations of any of the provisions of this Ordinance as follows:

1. Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day for the first violation.
   
2. Fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for the second and further violations.
   
3. Each day a violation occurs shall be considered a separate violation.