[R.O. 1996 § 100.110; Code 1985,
§§ 13.010, 13.020; CC 1990 § 1-11]
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, 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)
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. Further, if State Statute
provides a lesser maximum penalty for any offense or category of offenses,
such lesser maximum shall apply in lieu of the provisions herein.
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.
[R.O. 1996 § 100.120; Code 1985,
§ 13.040; CC 1990 § 1-12]
A. The City hereby authorizes the Municipal
Court, or other court having jurisdiction, to cause all persons who
have been convicted and sentenced for violation of an ordinance of
the City, whether the punishment is by fine or imprisonment, or by
both, to be put to work and perform labor on the public streets, highways
or alleys and other public works or buildings of the City, for such
purposes as the City may deem necessary.
B. The Chief of Police, Public Works Superintendent
or other proper Officer of the City, shall have the power and be authorized
and required to have or cause all such prisoners as may be directed
by the court, or other such Chief Officer of the City to work out
the full number of days for which they may have been sentenced at
working upon such public streets, highways or alleys or other public
works or buildings of the City as may have been designated.
C. If the punishment is by fine, and the fine
is not paid, then for every twenty dollars ($20.00) of such judgment
the prisoner shall not work more than one (1) day. And it shall be
deemed a part of the judgment and sentence of the court that such
prisoner may be worked as herein provided.
[R.O. 1996 § 100.130; Code 1985,
§ 13.050; CC 1990 § 1-13]
When a fine is assessed for a violation
of an ordinance, it shall be within the discretion of the judge or
other official assessing the fine to provide for the payment of the
fine on an installment basis under such terms and conditions as he/she
may deem appropriate.
[R.O. 1996 § 100.140; CC 1990 § 1-14]
In all cases wherein the same offense
may be made punishable, or shall be created, by different provisions
of this Code or other ordinances of the City, or by different clauses
or Sections of the same ordinance, the Prosecuting Officer may elect
under which to proceed, but not more than one (1) recovery or penalty
shall be had or enforced against the same person for the same offense,
provided that the revocation of a license or permit shall not be considered
a recovery or penalty so as to bar any other penalty or recovery being
enforced or had.
[R.O. 1996 § 100.150; Code 1985
§ 13.030; CC 1990 § 1-15]
Every person who commits, attempts
to commit, conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission
of any act declared herein to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor,
whether individually or in connection with one (1) or more other persons
or as principal, agent or accessory, shall be guilty of such unlawful
act or offense or misdemeanor, and every person who falsely, fraudulently,
forcibly or willfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits
or directs another to violate any provision hereof shall likewise
be guilty.