[CC 1984 §1-13; Ord. No. 107-A-6 §1, 12-18-2000; Ord. No. 15-10I §2, 8-1-2008]
A. Wherever
in this Code or in any ordinance of the City, or rule or regulation
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 any ordinance violations or the doing of any act
is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful
or an ordinance violation and no specific penalty is provided for
the violation thereof, upon conviction of an ordinance violation,
the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding
three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided,
that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by any
Statute of the State, the Statutory penalty, and no other, shall be
imposed for the punishment of the ordinance violation, except that
imprisonments may be in the County Jail.
B. Each
day any violation of this Code or any such ordinance, rule, regulation
or order shall continue shall constitute, except where otherwise provided,
a separate ordinance violation.
[CC 1984 §1-14]
When a sentence for violation of any provision of this Code
or other ordinance of the City, or for violation of any rule, regulation
or order promulgated or given pursuant thereto, includes a fine and
such fine is not paid, or if the costs of prosecution adjudged against
an offender are not paid, the person under sentence shall be imprisoned
one (1) day for every ten dollars ($10.00) of any such unpaid fine
or costs or both the fine and costs, not to exceed a total of three
(3) months.
[CC 1984 §1-15; Ord. No. 107-A-4 §1, 9-15-1980]
A. Any
person sentenced to imprisonment for violation of any provisions of
this Code or of any other ordinance of this City, or of any rule,
regulation or order promulgated pursuant thereto, and any person who
fails to pay a fine imposed for any such violation, or the costs of
prosecution, may be put to work and perform labor on the public streets
or other public works or buildings of the City for such purposes as
the City may deem necessary. For every ten dollars ($10.00) of an
assessed or unpaid fine, a prisoner shall work one (1) day.
B. The
Chief of Police shall cause all such prisoners, as may be directed
by the Mayor, to work out the full number of days for which they have
been sentenced by performing labor upon the public streets or other
public works or buildings of the City as may be designated by the
Mayor.