Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this chapter by doing any act prohibited or declared to be unlawful thereby, or declared to be an offense or misdemeanor thereby, or who shall fail to do any act required by any such provision, or who shall fail to do any act when such provision declares such failure to be unlawful or to be an offense or misdemeanor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code. (1985 Code § 14-601)