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2007, repealed sections 110.010 "general penalty" and 110.020 "penalty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]
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
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.