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Section 17.01 Enforcement, Penalties and Other Remedies

It shall be unlawful to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain or use any building or structure or to use any land in violation of any regulation in this code. Any person, firm or corporation convicted of violating any such regulation or provision of this code shall be fined not less than two dollars ($2.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) and may be confined in the City Jail for a period not to exceed 90 days. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, maintained or used or any land is or is proposed to be used in violation of any regulation or provision of this code, the City Manager, City Attorney, other appropriate authority of the City of Oak Ridge, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specially damaged by such violation may, in addition to other remedies, institute injunction, mandamus or other appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance or use, or to correct or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of said building, structure or land.