(a) Except as otherwise provided, the owner or owners of any building or structure who permit the same to be, remain or be used in violation of any provision of this Building Code, including the provisions of the standard codes adopted in Title Four of this Part Fourteen - Building and Housing Code, or who permit to be placed or exist in or upon the same anything in violation of the provisions of this Building Code, including the provisions of the standard codes adopted in Title Four of this Part Fourteen - Building and Housing Code, and any architect, builder, plumber, electrician, carpenter, mason or any other person employed to perform or to assist in or on such work, and any person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Building Code, including the provisions of the standard codes adopted in Title Four of this Part Fourteen - Building and Housing Code, or who builds or installs anything in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved under this Building Code, including the provisions of the standard codes adopted in Title Four of this Part Fourteen - Building and Housing Code, is, for each and every such violation or noncompliance, guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation continues with knowledge thereof or after notice or order of the Inspector of Buildings to correct or remove such violation.
(b) The imposition of any fine or penalty prescribed in this section shall not preclude any appropriate action or proceeding at law or in equity to prevent any unlawful erection, construction, alteration, moving, removal, demolition, maintenance or use of any building, structure or premises, to restrain, correct or abate any violation, to prevent the illegal use or occupancy of any building, structure or premises or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about any premises.