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(a) Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code hereby adopted or of this chapter, or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the City Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction within the time fixed therein shall severally for each and every such violation and non-compliance respectively be guilty of a violation, punishable as provided for violations in KMC 13.05.010. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue; and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten (10) days that prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.

(b) In addition to, or as an alternative to the criminal penalty aforementioned, or the penalties and compliance provisions of the Uniform Codes adopted by this chapter, any person violating any provisions of this chapter, the uniform codes that it adopts, or any written order of the Fire Chief or his designee based on the above, to correct a fire hazard, shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount as provided by KMC 13.05.010. Each and every day that such violation continues shall be deemed a separate and distinct violation. In addition, a civil injunction or temporary restraining order may be obtained in order to obtain immediate compliance with the provisions of this chapter or the uniform codes that it adopts in order to abate a fire hazard.

(c) The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.

(KC 8-1 through 8-10; Ords. 178, 411, 473, 1240)