[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.