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(A) No person shall violate any of the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code or fail to comply therewith, or shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the Board of Appeals and Adjustments or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein. The imposition of a penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
(B) The application of any penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(Prior Code, § 1511.04)
In the event of a conflict between any provision of the Fire Prevention Code and any statute of the state or any rule, regulation or order of the State Fire Marshal promulgated or given pursuant to statute, the statute, rule, regulation or order shall prevail; and in the event of a conflict between any provision of the Fire Prevention Code, any other provision of the codified ordinances or other ordinance of Council or with any provision of another technical code adopted by Council or with any rule, regulation or order lawfully promulgated and in effect pursuant to authority of the codified ordinances or other ordinance of the city, the more stringent provision shall prevail.
(Prior Code, § 1511.05)