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 ordinance violation
or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is
declared to be unlawful 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 three (3) months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment; provided, that in any case wherein the
penalty for an ordinance violation is fixed by a Statute of the State,
the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such ordinance
violation, except that imprisonments may be in the City prison or
workhouse instead of the County Jail.