[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.