[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Prospect Park as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[An ordinance adopting the Code of the Borough of Prospect Park and making certain substantive changes to existing ordinances of the Borough is presently proposed before the Borough Council. Upon final adoption, it will be included here as Article I of this chapter.]
[Adopted 11-13-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-6]
For violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance of the Borough of Prospect Park, unless a specific penalty is otherwise provided in connection with the provision violated, the maximum penalty upon conviction of the violation shall be one or more of the following: imprisonment in the County Jail or in any place provided by the municipality for the detention of prisoners for any term not exceeding 90 days or by a fine not exceeding $1,000; or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days at the discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court.
For violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance of the Borough of Prospect Park, unless a specific penalty is otherwise provided in connection with the provision violated, the minimum penalty shall be imposed which shall consist of a fine which may be fixed at an amount not less than $35. The court before which any person is convicted of violating any ordinance or Code provision shall have power to impose any fine, term of punishment, or period of community service not less than the minimum and not exceeding the maximum fixed in the Code or such ordinance.
Except as otherwise provided, each and every day in which a violation of any provision of this Code or any other ordinance of the Borough exists shall constitute a separate violation.
Whenever any provisions of the New Jersey Statutes Annotated limits the authority of the Borough to punish the violation of any particular provision of this Code or other Borough ordinance or rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto to a fine of less than that provided in this article or imprisonment for a shorter term than that provided in this article, then the violation of such particular provision of this Code or other Borough ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order shall be punished by the imposition of not more than the maximum fine or imprisonment so authorized or by other such fine or imprisonment.