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A. Generally. The Director may issue an administrative order to compel correction of a civil violation, abatement of a nuisance, or payment of civil penalties.

B. Stop work orders. The Director may issue an administrative order to immediately cease any work or activity that is causing a civil violation or a public nuisance.

C. Supplemental orders. The Director may at any time add to, rescind in part, or otherwise modify an order by issuing a supplemental order.

D. Final orders. An administrative order becomes final if it is not timely appealed, or if it is timely appealed and not stayed or reversed.

E. Violations of administrative orders.

1. If the person to whom an order is directed does not obey the order or does not pay the civil penalty assessed by the order, the Director may pursue any combination of the remedies in AMC Chapter 20.30.

2. Failure to comply with a stop work order is a gross misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by a minimum fine of five hundred dollars up to a maximum fine of one thousand dollars or one year in jail, or both. Each day or part thereof of noncompliance with a stop work order is a separate offense. (Ord. 2988 § 1 (Att. A), 2016)