(a) Whoever violates any provision of the Unified Fire Code as adopted herein or fails to comply herewith or who violates or fails to comply with any order made thereunder, or whoever builds in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, shall severally for each such violation and noncompliance respectively, be guilty of a violation of the Fire Code; a minor misdemeanor. If the offender has previously been convicted of a violation hereunder, then violation of the Fire Code is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violation or defects within a reasonable time; when not otherwise specified, each ten days the prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
(b) The application of the penalty provided under subsection (a) hereof shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(Ord. 82-31. Passed 4-20-82.)