§ 3605. ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES.

(a) The Director may enforce the provisions of this Ordinance against violations by serving notice requiring the correction of any violation within a reasonable time specified by the Director. Upon the violator's failure to comply with the notice within the time period specified, the Director may request the City Attorney to maintain an action for injunction to enforce the provisions of this Ordinance and for assessment and recovery of a civil penalty for such violation.

(b) Any person that violates or refuses to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable for a civil penalty, not to exceed $500.00 for each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue, which penalty shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the City and County of San Francisco, by the City Attorney, in any court of competent jurisdiction. Any penalty assessed and recovered in a civil action brought pursuant to this Section shall be paid to the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco.

(c) Any person who violates or refuses to comply with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an infraction, and shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day such violation or refusal shall continue. Every violation is punishable by (1) a fine not exceeding $100.00 for a first violation; (2) a fine not exceeding $200.00 for a second violation within one year; (3) a fine not exceeding $500.00 for each additional violation within one year.

(d) In undertaking the enforcement of this Ordinance, the City and County of San Francisco is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such breach proximately caused injury.

(Added by Ord. 4-08, File No. 071089, App. 1/14/2008)