(a) When an owner fails to make application as required by this chapter or violates any provision of this chapter, such owner and/or any other person who assists in such violation is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Each seven days that an unsafe or unlawful condition is permitted to remain after notice to the property owner by the Residential Building Official, shall be a separate offense.
(b) Where work for which a permit is required by this code is started or proceeded with before filing an application for a permit, all applicable fees fixed by this chapter shall be doubled, by the payment of such double fee shall not relieve any person from fully complying with the requirements of this code in execution of the work nor from any of the other penalties prescribed in this section.
(Ord. 10-2013. Passed 4-15-13.)
(Ord. 10-2013. Passed 4-15-13.)