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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1727 PAGE TWO Sec. 14-2. Review of Building Permits. No building permit shall be issued pursuant to Chapter 8, Article II of the Santa Ana Municipal Code for the construction, addition, alteration or repair of any building or structure which would result in noncompliance with the requirements of this fire code. The fire chief and the director of planning and development services shall establish administrative procedures designed to promote expeditious review of building permit applications. The fire chief and the director of planning and development services may require such site plans, elevations, and other documentation from the applicant as may be necessary to determine such compliance, and may impose such conditions on approval of an application as are necessary to assure such compliance. No building or structure subject to such review and approval shall be finally released for utility service or occupancy which is not in compliance with the building permit as approved or conditionally approved. Sec. 14-3. Penalties. No person shall violate any of the provisions or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this article. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article hereby adopted or fail to comply therewith, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made under this article, or who shall build in violation of any detailed statement of specifi- cations or plans submitted and approved hereunder, or any certificate or permit issued hereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the board of appeals or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed herein, shall severally for each and every violation and noncompliance, re- spectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and impris- onment. 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 day prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense. The application of the above penalty shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.