Any owner or lessee of any building which was not used as a tenement house prior to April 24, 1913, who allows such building to be occupied or used as a tenement house without making such building conform in all respects with the requirements of this part, and any owner or lessee of land, and any builder or architect who authorizes, makes or approves any construction or alteration of any building or any reduction in court or yard spaces, in violation of the provisions of this part, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both and, if any violation of any of said provisions remains uncorrected, the violator shall be subject to a renewal of the foregoing penalty every thirty days until the violation is corrected.