(A) No person shall violate any provision of this subchapter or fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or erect, construct, alter, or repair, or has erected, constructed, altered, or repaired a building or structure in violation of a detailed statement or plan submitted and approved thereunder, or of a permit or certificate issued thereunder.
(B) The owner of a building, structure, or premises, where anything in violation of this chapter shall be placed or shall exist, and an architect, builder, contractor, agent, person, or corporation employed in connection therewith, and who may have assisted in the commission of such violation, shall each be guilty of a separate offense and upon conviction thereof shall be fined as herein provided.
(C) The imposition of the penalties herein prescribed shall not preclude the Law Director from instituting an appropriate action or proceeding to prevent an unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance, or use, or from restraining, correcting or abating a violation, or to preventing the occupancy of a building, structure, or premises, or preventing an illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about any premises.
(`63 Code, § 1305.99) (Ord. 2812, passed 2-18-52) Penalty, see § 150.99