(A) (1) It shall be unlawful for any owner, occupant, lessee, or other person in interest of such dwelling, building, or structure as determined by the agency to be dangerous, unhealthy, or unfit for human habitation to fail to comply with any order to repair, vacate, or demolish and remove same, or any other order of the agency from which no appeal or other remedy has been invoked.
(2) The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse subsequent violations or permit subsequent impositions of fines or imprisonment or both for continuing violations; 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 ten days that prohibited conditions continue shall constitute a separate offense.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove any notice or order of the agency posted as required under any of the provisions of this subchapter.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully obstruct, impede, or interfere with the agency, or any representative or officer of the agency, or with any person who owns or holds any estate or interest in any dwelling which has been ordered by the agency to be vacated, demolished, or removed, or with any person to whom such dwelling has been lawfully sold, pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, whenever any such representative or officer of the agency, purchaser, or person having an interest or estate in such dwelling is engaged in repairing, vacating, closing, or demolishing any such dwelling, or in performing any necessary act preliminary to or incidental to such work.
(Prior Code, § 5-37) Penalty, see § 150.999