Any person or corporation that shall violate any of the provisions of this article or fail to comply with, or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall build or alter any building in violation of any detailed statement or plan submitted and approved hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine in an amount in accordance with section 54.001, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code, and each day such violation shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense. The owner or owners of any buildings or premises or part thereof, where anything in violation of this article shall be placed or shall exist and any architect, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith and who may have assisted in the commission of any such violation, shall be guilty of a separate offense, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined as herein provided.