General
Penalty. 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
one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) 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.