a) No person shall erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, convert, maintain or use any building or structure, or use any land in violation of any regulation or provision of this Zoning Ordinance or any duly enacted amendment hereof. Any person, partnership or corporation who violates or permits the violation of provisions of this Zoning Ordinance, upon being found liable therefore in a civil enforcement proceeding commenced by the City, shall pay a judgment of not more than five-hundred dollars ($500.00) plus all court costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the City as a result thereof. No judgment shall commence or be imposed, levied or payable until the date of the determination of a violation by the District Justice. If the defendant neither pays nor timely appeals the judgment, the City may enforce the judgment pursuant to the applicable rules of civil procedure.
Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation, unless the District Justice, determining that there has been a violation, further determines that there was good faith basis for the person, partnership or corporation violating this Zoning Ordinance to have believed that there was no such violation, in which event there shall be deemed to have been only one (1) such violation until the fifth day following the date of the determination of a violation by the District Justice. Thereafter each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate violation. All judgments, costs and reasonable attorney fees collected for the violation of this Zoning Ordinance shall be paid to the City. The Court of Common Pleas, upon petition, may grant an order of stay, upon cause shown, tolling the per diem fine pending a final adjudication of the violation and judgment.