All remedies and penalties provided for in this Chapter shall be cumulative and discretionary and not exclusive of other applicable provisions of this E. H. Code or other applicable State or Federal law. Each and every violation of this E. H. Code is hereby declared unlawful and a public nuisance. The conviction and punishment (whether by fine, imprisonment, or both) of any person hereunder pursuant to a criminal action, or the imposition of a monetary administrative penalty pursuant to an administrative citation (as defined in § 33.0113), shall not relieve such person from the responsibility of correcting, removing, or abating the violation; nor prevent the enforced correction, removal, or abatement thereof by the County, its employees, agents, or representatives. The correction, removal, or abatement of a violation begun after the issuance of a criminal citation or the filing of a criminal complaint shall not be a defense to the infraction or misdemeanor so charged and, following a conviction or plea of nolo contendere shall not be grounds for dismissal of the action or for the waiver, stay, or reduction, of any fine established in this Chapter. Further, the procedures established in this Chapter for the use of administrative citations, and the procedures established in other titles and chapters of this E. H. Code for administrative abatement and summary abatement as a means for addressing violations of this E. H. Code, shall be in addition to criminal and civil or other legal or equitable remedies established by law which may be pursued to address violations of this E. H. Code. The use of this Chapter shall be at the sole discretion of this County. In the exercise of such discretion in selecting an appropriate code enforcement remedy, the County shall not be required to institute available code enforcement remedies in any particular order, or to prefer the application of one remedy to another.
(Am. Ord. 3105, passed --1986; Am. Ord. 4093, passed - -2009; Am. Ord. 4102, passed - -2010)