The city plan commission, the board of zoning appeals, the building commissioner, planning director, or any designated enforcement official, or any person or persons, firm or corporation jointly or severally aggrieved, may institute a suit for injunction in the Circuit Court of Kosciusko County to restrain an individual or a governmental unit from violating the provisions of this ordinance. The city plan commission or the board of zoning appeals may also institute a suit for mandatory injunction directing an individual, a corporation or a governmental unit to remove a structure erected in violation of any provisions of this ordinance or the requirements thereof. Any buildings erected, raised, or converted, or land or premises used in violation of any provisions of this ordinance, or the requirements thereof is hereby declared to be a common nuisance and as such may be abated in such manner as nuisances are now or may hereafter be abated under existing law.

In the alternative, violations of this ordinance may be brought before an administrative law judge designated by the City of Warsaw to hear zoning violations and who is authorized to impose fines and penalties as set forth herein Section 8.1.

(Ord. No. 01-06-04, § 3, 6-18-2001)

Any person or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance or fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirement thereof; or who shall alter the use of land or build, reconstruct or structurally alter any building without first securing an improvement permit; or who shall build, reconstruct or structurally alter any building in violation of any detail statement of plan submitted and approved thereunder; or who shall occupy such altered land use or new or structurally altered building prior to securing a certificate of occupancy, shall, for each and every day of violation or noncompliance, be fined not less than $25.00 and not more than $2,500.00.