§ 10-307. Allowing reoccupancy without correcting hazardous condition.

Any owner of any building who receives a notice from the fire marshal that the building is a fire hazard as provided in section 10-300 of this Code, and abolishes the fire hazard by causing the building to be vacated of human occupancy and thereafter reconstitutes the fire hazard by allowing or causing human occupancy to be resumed without correcting the hazardous physical condition of the building shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $250.00 nor more than $2,000.00 and each day that such reconstituted fire hazard continues to exist shall be a separate offense. No additional notice from the fire marshal shall be required in such cases.

(Code 1968, § 18-46; Ord. No. 73-2079, § 1, 11-21-73; Ord. No. 92-1449, § 26, 11-4-92)

Charter reference

Penalty for ordinance violation, Art. II, § 12.

Cross reference

Assessment of fines against corporations, § 16-76; payment of fines, § 16-78; credit against fines for incarceration, § 35-6 et seq.