(a) The Department of Public Health shall enforce Section 440.5 hereof against violations by either of the following actions:
(1) Serving notice requiring the correction of any violation of this Section;
(2) Calling upon the City Attorney to maintain an action for injunction to enforce the provisions of Section 440.5, to cause the correction of any such violation, and for assessment and recovery of a civil penalty for such violation.
(b) Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, group or other person or legal entity that violates any provision of Section 440.5 hereof shall be liable for a civil penalty, not to exceed $500 for each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue, which penalty shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the City and County of San Francisco by the City Attorney in any court of competent jurisdiction. Any penalty assessed and recovered in an action brought pursuant to this paragraph shall be paid to the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco.
(Amended by Ord. 199-86; App. 6/6/86)