1-4 General Penalty

A.    No person shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Code or the ordinances of the City.

B.    Whenever in this Code, or any other ordinance or resolution of the City, or any rule or regulation promulgated under the provisions of this Code, any act is prohibited or declared to be unlawful or an offense or misdemeanor or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, any person who shall be convicted of the violation of such provisions of this Code or other ordinance or resolution of this City hereafter enacted, or of such rules or regulations, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Two Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($2,650.00) or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment, except as otherwise provided for in this Code.

C.    Every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance or resolution of the City or any rule or regulation promulgated under the provisions of this Code shall continue, shall constitute a separate offense.

D.    In all cases where the same offense may be punishable or be created by different clauses or sections of the ordinances of the City, the prosecuting officer may elect under which to proceed, but not more than one recovery shall be against the same person for the same offense.

E.    Every person who, at the time of commission of the offense, was at least ten (10) but not yet eighteen (18) years of age, and who is subsequently convicted of or pleads guilty or nolo contendere to a violation of any provision of this Code, shall be punished by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per violation or count. Any voluntary pleas of guilty or nolo contendere to the original charge or to a lesser or substituted charge shall subject the person so pleading to all fines and/or penalties applicable to the original charge. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit incarceration in an appropriate facility at the time of charging of a juvenile violating any section of this Code.

F.    Whenever in this Code any act or omission is made unlawful, it is also unlawful to cause, allow, permit, aid, abet or suffer such unlawful act or omission. Concealing or in any manner aiding in the concealing of any unlawful act or omission is similarly unlawful.

(Source: Ordinance No. 2, 2015)