[R.O. 2011 §30-221; Ord. No. 2686 §1, 2-9-1987]
The City Building Inspector is authorized to institute or cause to be instituted by the City Attorney in the name of the City of Salem, Missouri any and all actions, legal and equitable, that may be appropriate or necessary for the enforcement of this Chapter; provided however, that this Section shall not prevent any person entitled to equitable relief from enjoining any act contrary to the provisions of this Chapter.
[R.O. 2011 §30-222; Ord. No. 2686 §1, 2-9-1987]
Subsequent to the effective date of this Chapter, no change in the use or occupancy of land, nor any change of use or occupancy in an existing building shall be made, nor shall any new building be occupied until a certificate of occupancy has been issued by the City Building Inspector. Every certificate of occupancy shall state that the new occupancy complies with all provisions of this Chapter. No permit for excavation for, or the erection or alteration of, any building shall be issued before the application has been made and approved for a certificate of occupancy and compliance, and no building or premises shall be occupied until such certificate and permit is issued. A record of all certificates of occupancy shall be kept on file in the office of the City Building Inspector, and copies shall be furnished on request to any person having a proprietary or tenancy interest in land or a building affected by such certificate of occupancy.
[R.O. 2011 §30-223; Ord. No. 2686 §1, 2-9-1987]
The Board of Aldermen may from time to time, on its own motion or on petition, amend, supplement, change, modify, or repeal by ordinance the boundaries of districts or regulations, or restrictions herein established. Any proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal shall first be submitted to the City Planning Commission for its recommendations and report. If the City Planning Commission makes no report within thirty (30) days, it shall be considered to have made a report approving the proposed amendment, supplement, modification or change. Upon the filing of the recommendations and report by the City Planning Commission with respect to any proposed amendment, supplement, change, modification or repeal, the Board of Aldermen shall proceed to hold a public hearing in relation thereto giving at least fifteen (15) days' notice of time and place of such hearing, which notice shall first be published in a newspaper having a general circulation in the City of Salem.
Such regulations, restrictions, and boundaries may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified or repealed. In case, however, of a protest against such change duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of thirty percent (30%) or more, either of the areas of the land (exclusive of streets and alleys) included in such proposed change or within an area determined by lines drawn parallel to and one hundred eighty-five (185) feet distant from the boundaries of the district proposed to be changed, such amendment shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all the members of the Board of Aldermen. The provisions of Section 89.050, RSMo., relative to public hearing and official notice shall apply equally to all changes or amendments.
A. 
In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted, or maintained, or any building, structure, or land is used in violation of Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo., or of any ordinance or other regulation made under authority conferred hereby, the proper local authorities of the municipality, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance, or use, to restrain, correct, or abate such violation, to prevent the occupancy of such building, structure, or land, or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or use in or about such premises. Such regulations shall be enforced by an officer empowered to 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 Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo.
B. 
The owner or general agent of a building or premises where a violation of any provision of said regulations has been committed or shall exist, or the lessee or tenant of an entire building or entire premises where such violation has been committed or shall exist, or the owner, general agent, lessee, or tenant of any part of the building or premises in which such violation 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 an ordinance violation punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for each and every day that such violation continues, or by imprisonment for ten (10) days for each and every day such violation shall continue, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 82.300, RSMo., for the second (2nd) and subsequent offenses involving the same violation at the same building or premises, the punishment shall be a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each and every day that such violation shall continue, or by imprisonment for ten (10) days for each and every day such violation shall continue, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
C. 
Any such person who, having been served with an order to remove any such violation, shall fail to comply with such order within ten (10) days after such service or shall continue to violate any provision of the regulations made under authority of Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo., in the respect named in such order shall also be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
[R.O. 2011 §30-226; Ord. No. 2686 §1, 2-9-1987]
If any Section, Subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Chapter.