[Ord. No. 100.040, 7-3-2017]
A. Ordinance Violations.
1.
Except as set forth herein, 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),
plus costs, 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.
2.
As to minor traffic violations, which include a municipal traffic
ordinance violation prosecution that does not involve an accident
or injury, that does not involve the operation of a commercial motor
vehicle, and for which no points are assessed by the Department of
Revenue or the Department of Revenue is authorized to assess one (1)
to four (4) points to a person's driving record upon conviction,
including amended charges for any minor traffic violation, but excluding
violations for exceeding the posted speed limit by more than nineteen
(19) miles per hour or a violation occurring within a construction
zone or a school zone, the Court shall not assess a fine, if combined
with the amount of court costs, totaling in excess of two hundred
twenty-five dollars ($225.00).
3.
As to municipal ordinance violations for which penalties are
authorized by statute under Sections 71.285, 89.120 and 89.490, RSMo.,
including amended charges for such municipal ordinance violations,
for those committed within a twelve-month period beginning with the
first violation: two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the first such
violation, two hundred seventy-five dollars ($275.00) for the second
such violation, and three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) for the
third such violation, and four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00) for
the fourth and any subsequent municipal ordinance violation.
4.
As to minor traffic violations (as defined above) and these
municipal ordinance violations (as defined above), the Court shall
not sentence a person to confinement, except the Court may sentence
a person to confinement for any violation involving alcohol or controlled
substances, violations endangering the health or welfare of others,
or eluding or giving false information to a law enforcement officer.
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.