No person shall violate any provision, or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this chapter. Every act prohibited or declared unlawful and every failure to perform an act made mandatory by this chapter is punishable as an infraction. Where the city attorney determines that such action would be in the interest of justice, he/she may specify in the accusatory pleading that the offense shall be a misdemeanor. Each person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this chapter is committed, continued or permitted by such person and shall be punishable accordingly.
It shall be a defense to a citation issued for a violation of Section 10.04.030(C) that the violation occurred at a time when City Hall was closed so that a permit could not be issued, and that the infraction would have been legal had the permit been available. (Ord. 162 § 7, 1997)