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 or a 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.
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. 2004 §100.005; Ord. No. 692 §6, 5-7-1990]
In case of the amendment by the Board of Aldermen of any Section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Section 100.220 of this Article shall apply to the Section as amended; or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty, other than the aforementioned general penalty, is provided in another Section in the same Chapter, the penalty so provided in such other Section shall be held to relate to the Section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.
