A.Â
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
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.Â
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.Â
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.
D.Â
Specifically, but not by way of limitation, the penalty
for a minor traffic violation or municipal ordinance violation as
defined by Section 479.350, RSMo., or as later amended or replaced,
shall not exceed the penalty provisions of Section 479.353, RSMo.,
or as later amended or replaced.
[Ord. No. 15-10-01 § 1, 10-8-2015]