(A) In the event any owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of a lot, land or premises within the limits of the City fails to comply with the requirements of section 10-8-1 of this chapter, the City shall first serve upon an owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of said property a notice of violation and opportunity to correct. Said notice shall be personally served or posted and mailed as described in section 10-8-2 of this chapter, and shall provide said owner, tenant, lessee or occupant seven (7) days to correct the violation of this chapter. The City is not required to provide an owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of said property in violation of this chapter more than one notice of violation and opportunity to correct in any calendar year. In the event the violation is not corrected within said seven (7) day period, the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant upon which a notice of violation and opportunity to correct has been served shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be guilty of a separate additional infraction for each day thereafter that violation continues. In the event that the violation is not corrected within said seven (7) days and service was made by posting and mailing, the owner of the property shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be guilty of a separate infraction for each day thereafter that the violation continues. The fines for said infractions are as follows:
1. The first violation in any calendar year shall result in a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00);
2. The second violation in any calendar year shall result in a fine of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00); and
3. The third violation and each violation thereafter in any calendar year shall result in a fine of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). (Ord. 1359, 4-16-2019)