Failure to secure a building permit, zoning permit or Zoning Hearing Board certificate, when required, previous to the erection, construction, extension or addition to a building, or failure to secure a use registration permit, shall be a violation of this chapter.

B. Notice of violation.

When written notice of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter has been served on the owner, agent, occupant, contractor or builder, such violation shall be discontinued immediately.

C. Violations and penalties.

(1) Any person, partnership or corporation who or which shall violate the provisions of this chapter, and the owner, general agent or contractor of a building or premises where such violation has been committed or shall exist, and the lessee or tenant of an entire building or premises where such violation has been committed or shall exist, and the owner, general agent, contractor, lessee or tenant of any part of a building or premises in which such violation has been committed or shall exist, and the general agent, architect, builder, contractor or any person who knowingly commits, takes part in or assists in any such violation shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500 for each and every violation, and whenever such person shall have been notified by the Director of Building and Planning or Zoning Officer, by service of a summons in a prosecution or in any other way, that he/she is committing such violation of this chapter, each day that such violation is continued shall constitute a separate offense.
(2) In default of payment of the fine, such person, the members of such partnership or the officers of such corporation shall be liable to injunction or court order.
(3) Such fines or penalties shall be collected as like fines or penalties are now by law collected, and all fines collected for the violation of this chapter shall be paid over to the Township.