Chapter 17.470 — ENFORCEMENT/PENALTIES

The purpose of these provisions is to ensure compliance with the Zoning Code. These provisions shall apply to the enforcement of the Zoning Code, but shall not be deemed exclusive.

All officials, departments and employees of the City vested with the authority to issue permits, certificates or licenses shall adhere to, and require conformance with, the Zoning Code, and shall issue no permit, certificate or license for uses, buildings, or purposes in conflict with the provisions of this code; any such permit, certificate, or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this code shall be null and void.

It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector of the City to enforce the provisions of this code pertaining to the erection, construction, reconstruction, moving, conversion, alteration, or addition to any building or structure. Whenever he shall have cause to suspect a violation of any provision of the Zoning Code, or whenever necessary to investigate an application for, or revocation of, any Zoning approval, the Building Inspector, or his duly authorized representative(s), may enter on any site or into any structure for the purposes of investigation, provided he shall do so in a reasonable manner. No secured building shall be entered without the consent of the owner or occupant, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

Any building or structure or sign set up, erected, constructed, altered, enlarged, converted, moved, or maintained contrary to the provisions of this chapter, and any use of any land, building or premises established, conducted, operated or maintained contrary to the provisions of this chapter, shall be hereby declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance; the City Attorney of the City shall, upon order of the City Council, immediately commence action or proceedings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment thereof in the manner provided by law, and shall take such other steps and shall apply to such courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate and remove such building or structure, and restrain and enjoin any person, firm or corporation from setting up, erecting, building, maintaining or using any such building contrary to the provisions of this chapter.

Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating or causing the violation of any of the provisions of this code, shall be guilty of an infraction, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00. Such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of this code is committed or continued by such person, firm or corporation, and shall be punishable as herein provided. Unless otherwise specified, upon a fourth or subsequent conviction of a violation of this chapter committed within a period of one year, said violation shall constitute a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the County jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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The remedies provided for herein shall be cumulative and not exclusive.

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