(a) Any person, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this Zoning Code, shall, for each violation, upon conviction thereof; pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), with costs recoverable before the Municipal Court, and upon default of payment of the penalty and costs, the persons convicted may be committed to the Village or County prison for a period not exceeding ninety days. Each ten days that such violations shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense, unless otherwise provided.
(b) The owner or tenant of any building, structure, premises, or part thereof; and any architect, building contractor, agent, or other person, who knowingly commits, participates in, assists in, or maintains such violation, may be found guilty of a separate offense and suffer the penalties herein provided.
(c) Nothing herein contained shall prevent the Village from taking such other lawful action as is necessary to prevent or remedy any violations.
In case any building is or is proposed to be located, erected, constructed, reconstructed, enlarged, changed, maintained or used, or any land is or is proposed to be used, in violation of this Zoning Code or any amendment or supplement hereto, the Village Council, the Village Law Director or the Zoning Inspector, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specifically damaged by such violation, may, in addition to other remedies provided by law, institute an appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful location, erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance, or use; to restrain, correct or abate such violation; to prevent the occupancy of said building, structure or land; or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about such premises.
(Ord. 9-85. Passed 1-22-85; Ord. 75-96. Passed 11-18-96.)