Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Zoning Code, or any of the requirements thereof, and whoever erects, alters or commences to erect or alter any building in violation of any detailed statement or plan submitted or approved thereunder, shall, for each and every violation or noncompliance, be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which such violation or noncompliance occurs or continues. The owner of any building or premises or part thereof where anything in violation of this Zoning Code is placed or exists, and any architect, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith who may have assisted in the commission of any such violation, shall each be guilty of a separate offense and, upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties provided herein.
(1956 Code Sec. 1313.99)