Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this code shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed ninety days, or both fine and imprisonment. Each separate day or any portion thereof, during which any violation of this code occurs or continues, shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable as provided in this section. The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans and specifications shall not be deemed or construed to be a permit for, or an approval of, any violation of any of the provisions of this code. No permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of this code shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use which it authorized is lawful.

The issuance of granting of a permit or approval of plans shall not prevent the building official from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in said plans and specifications or from preventing construction operations being carried on thereunder when in violation of this code or of any other ordinance or from revoking any certificate of approval when issued in error.

Every permit issued by the building official under the provisions of this code shall expire by limitation and become null and void, if the work authorized by such permit is not commenced within one hundred eighty days. Before such work can be recommenced, a new permit shall be first obtained, and the fee shall be one-half the amount required for a new permit for such work, provided no changes have been made, or will be made in the original plans and specifications for such work; and provided, further, that such suspension or abandonment has not exceeded one hundred eighty days. (Ord. 1251-86 § 4, 1986.)