[Ord. No. 801 §2, 2-23-2016; Ord. No. 961, 8-28-2025]
A.
Whenever in this Code or any other ordinance of the City, or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority duly vested in him/her or it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor or ordinance violation or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor or ordinance violation, and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, upon conviction of a violation of any such provision of this Code or of any such ordinance, rule, regulation, notice or order, the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) and costs, or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by a Statute of the State, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such offense, except that imprisonments may be in the City prison or workhouse instead of the County Jail.
B.
Every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance or any such rule, regulation, notice or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
C.
Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing, securing, aiding or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.
D.
The Municipal Court shall comply with the following requirements with respect to fines, costs, surcharges and indigency:
1.
Fines and costs assessed on minor traffic violations as set forth in Section 479.353.1(a), RSMo., shall not exceed two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225.00). Fines and costs assessed on "municipal ordinance violations" as defined in Section 479.350.4, RSMo., shall not exceed the mandatory maximum schedule of Section 479.353.1(b), RSMo. Other ordinance violations shall not exceed the maximum amount authorized by State law and/or City Codes.
4.
Court costs shall not be assessed against indigent defendants. Section 479.353.4-5, RSMo.
5.
No fee shall be assessed to the defendant for the use of community service in compliance with the requirements of Section 479.360.1, RSMo.
6.
A person convicted of a minor traffic violation shall not be placed in confinement for failure to pay a fine unless such non-payment violates the terms of the person's probation.