Editor's Note — Ord. no. 819 §1, adopted April 2, 2007, repealed sections 110.010 "general penalty" and 110.020 "penalty as to amendments" and enacted the new provisions set out herein. Former sections 110.010 — 110.020 derived from ord. no. 313 §§5 — 6, 10-1-1990.
[Ord. No. 819 §1, 4-2-2007; Ord. No. 1051 § 2, 7-18-2016[1]]
A. 
Except as hereinafter provided 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 them or if any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense or misdemeanor 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 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 Jail not exceeding ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. 
Notwithstanding the above, the penalty for violation of the following ordinances committed within a twelve-month period beginning with the first violation is: two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the first municipal ordinance violation, two hundred seventy-five dollars ($275.00) for the second municipal ordinance violation, three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) for the third municipal ordinance violation, and four hundred dollars ($400.00) for the fourth and subsequent municipal ordinance violation. Said municipal ordinance violation include violations of any of the following Chapters of the Code:
Chapter 330 - Nuisances
Chapter 335 - Disabled and Abandoned Automobiles
Chapter 400 - Zoning Regulations
Chapter 405 - Subdivision Regulations
Chapter 410 - Planning Commission Violations
Chapter 500 to 522 - Building Code, Electrical Code, Plumbing Code, Housing Code, Fire Prevention Code, Mechanical Code
Chapter 525 - Dangerous/Substandard Building
C. 
Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code or 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 any person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.
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Editor’s Note: Section 2 also changed the title of this Section from “Generally” to “Penalty For Violation Of Municipal Ordinances.”