14-415 Building regulations; enforcement; inspection; violations; penalty.
14-415. Building regulations; enforcement; inspection; violations; penalty.The city, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent an unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance or use of any building or structure in violation of any ordinance or regulations enacted or issued pursuant to sections 14-401 to 14-418, to restrain, correct or abate such violation, to prevent the occupancy of said building, structure or land, or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about such premises. Said regulations shall be enforced by the city as it may provide. In addition to and not in restriction of any other powers, the city may cause any building, structure, place or premises to be inspected and examined and to order in writing the remedying of any condition found to exist therein or thereat in violation of any provision of the regulations made under authority of said sections. The owner, general agent, lessee, or tenant of a building or premises or of any part of such building or premises, where a violation of any provision of said regulations has been committed or shall exist, or the general agent, architect, builder, contractor or any other person who commits, takes part or assists in any such violation or who maintains any building or premises in which any such violation shall exist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each and every day that such violation continues. SourceLaws 1925, c. 45, § 9, p. 184; C.S.1929, § 14-412; R.S.1943, § 14-415; Laws 1959, c. 37, § 3, p. 212.