(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, whoever violates any provision of the Fire Prevention Code or fails to comply therewith, or whoever violates or fails to comply with any order made thereunder, or whoever builds in violation of any detailed statement of specifications of plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or whoever fails to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the Bureau of Fire Prevention or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed therein, shall severally for each such violation and noncompliance respectively, be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.
The imposition of one 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 day that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense, to be consistent with (c) Penalties for Violations.
(b) The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions. (Ord. 2009-22. Passed 12-7-09.)