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