1490.99 PENALTY; EQUITABLE REMEDIES.
   (a)   Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, including any provision of the International Property Maintenance Code, as adopted in Section 1490.01, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both for each offense. Unless otherwise provided a separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
   (b)   The application of the penalty provided in subsection (a) hereof shall not be deemed to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions or the application of any other applicable remedy.
   (c)   For any amount that remains outstanding to the Village for corrections the Village had to undertake to bring the property into compliance for a violation under Chapter 1490 of the Codified Ordinances of the Village of Timberlake, after being first duly advised of the amount due and owing, that has remained unpaid for more than thirty days prior to the first day of July of each year shall be certified by the Village Administrator to the Auditor of Lake County on or before the second Monday in September of each year, together with a pertinent description of the premises to which the corrective actions have been made. The amount so certified shall be placed by the Auditor on the tax duplicate of Lake County to be collected as other taxes are collected. In addition to such collection procedure, any such unpaid amount may be collected through civil action brought in the name of the Village in any court of competent civil jurisdiction.
(Ord. 2007-15. Passed 12-18-07.)