(a) The chief legislative body may provide for the enforcement of any ordinance enacted under this chapter.(b) A violation of any such ordinance is a Class A misdemeanor.(c) In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted, or maintained, or any building, structure or land is or is proposed to be used in violation of any ordinance enacted under this chapter, the building commissioner, municipal counsel or other appropriate authority of the municipality or other political subdivision 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, use, or to correct or abate the violation or to prevent the occupancy of the building, structure or land.Acts 1945, ch. 74, § 9; C. Supp. 1950, § 2726.28 (Williams, § 2726.55); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 42-410; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
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