[Ord. No. 170213A § 2, 2-27-2017]
A. 
Penalties.
1. 
Any person, firm or business entity convicted of violation of any provision of Title V or the International Building Codes adopted herein is guilty of an ordinance violation and shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by confinement in the County Jail for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and confinement.
2. 
Every day any violation of Title V or the International Building Code and Building Regulations adopted herein shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
3. 
Whenever any act is prohibited by the Building Code and Building Regulations adopted in the Title, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing, securing, aiding or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited by the Building Code and Building Regulations, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.
4. 
Any person who shall continue any work after having been served with a stop work order, except such work as that person is directed to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition, shall be liable to a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense.
B. 
Saving Clause. Nothing in Title V, or in the International Building Code hereby adopted, shall be constructed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or ordinance hereby repealed; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Section.
C. 
Liability. Nothing in Title V, or in the International Building Code hereby adopted, shall be construed to relieve from responsibility or to lessen the responsibility of any person, firm, corporation owning, controlling or constructing buildings, nor shall the City be held as assuming any liability of any nature by reasons of the inspection authority hereby issued to the City Building Inspector for inspection of buildings.