Any person or persons, association or corporation
who shall knowingly and willfully violate any of the provisions of
this chapter or fail to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements
thereof, or who shall erect, construct, alter or repair or has erected,
constructed, altered or repaired a structure in violation of any statement
or plan submitted and approved thereunder or of a permit or certificate
issued thereunder, shall be guilty of a violation, as defined under
the Penal Law of the State of New York, and subject to a fine of not
more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both
such fine and imprisonment for each such violation. The owner of a
structure or premises or part thereof where anything in violation
of this chapter shall be placed or shall exist and any architect,
engineer, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed
in connection therewith and who may have assisted in the commission
of such violation shall each be guilty of a separate violation and
subject to a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more
than 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, for each such violation.