Article III: Violations - City of Clayton, MO

Section 100.110 Violations — General Penalty — Limits — Continuing Violations — Exceptions [1]

[CC 1970 §1-8; Ord. No. 5464 §1, 10-13-1998]

Whenever in any Section of this Code of Ordinances or in any ordinance the doing of any act is required or is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or a misdemeanor and no specific fine or penalty is provided for a violation thereof, any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any such provision of this codification or of any such ordinance shall, for each offense, be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or be punished by imprisonment in jail not to exceed ninety (90) days or be punished by both fine and imprisonment.

Each days violation of or failure, refusal or neglect to comply with any provision of this Code or of any ordinance shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

This Section shall not apply to any Section of this Code or to any ordinance in which there is expressly provided a penalty for its violation or for any offense the penalty for the violation of which is fixed by Statute.

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Cross Reference—Municipal court, ch. 130.

Section 100.120 Violations — Penalty Included in Reference To Any Portion of The Code

[CC 1970 §1-9; Ord. No. 1281 §1-10, 5-13-1947]

Reference to any Section of this Code shall be understood to refer to the penalty Section relating thereto, including Section 100.110, unless otherwise expressly provided therein.

Section 100.130 Violations — Amendment of Section Subject To Penalty

[CC 1970 §1-10]

In case of the amendment of any Section of this Code of Ordinances or of any ordinance containing provisions for which a penalty is provided in another Section thereof, the penalty so provided in such other Section shall be held to relate and apply to the Section so amended, whether re-enacted in the amendatory ordinance or not, unless otherwise specifically provided therein.

Section 100.140 Violations — Offenses Having Two Penalties

[CC 1970 §1-11]

In all cases where the same offense is made punishable by different clauses or Sections of this Code or of any ordinance now or hereafter becoming a law, the City, in a prosecution based thereunder, may elect under which clause or Section to proceed; but not more than one (1) recovery shall be had against the same person for the same offense.

Section 100.150 Violations — Disposition of Fines and Costs

[CC 1970 §1-13]

All fines and costs collected for the violation of any provision of this Code shall be turned into the City Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.

Section 100.160 Code of Ordinances As Evidence

[CC 1970 §1-14]

Any printed copy of this Code of Ordinances containing a printed certificate of the City Clerk as to the correctness of such codification shall be received in evidence in any court for the purpose of proving the ordinances therein contained, the same and for the same purpose as the original ordinances, minutes or journals would be received.