[Ord. 797, eff. November 27, 1986; § 2, Ord. 899-93, eff. September 2, 1993]
(a) 
No person shall violate any provisions, or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this Code. Any person violating any of the provisions or failing to comply with any of the requirements of this Code shall be guilty of a misdemeanor unless such violation or failure to comply is expressly stated by this Code to be an infraction or to be punishable by imposition of specified civil penalties. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this Code shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this Code is committed, continued, or permitted by such person and shall be punishable accordingly.
(b) 
Infractions. Any person violating any provision or failing to comply with any mandatory requirement of this Code expressly stated by this Code to be an infraction shall be guilty of an infraction. Any person convicted of an infraction shall be punishable by:
(1) 
A fine not exceeding $100 for a first violation;
(2) 
A fine not exceeding $200 for a second violation of the same provision of this Code within one year;
(3) 
A fine not exceeding $500 for each additional violation of the same provision of this Code within one year.
Each person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this Code is committed, continued or permitted by such person and shall be punishable accordingly.
In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Code shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be, by this City, summarily abated as such, and every day such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate offense.
Whenever in this Code any act or omission is made unlawful, it shall include causing, permitting, aiding, abetting, suffering, or concealing the fact of such act or omission.
The provisions of this Code which declare certain crimes to be punishable as therein mentioned devolve a duty upon the court authorized to pass sentence to determine and impose the punishment described.
Whenever in this Code the punishment for a crime is left undetermined between certain limits, the punishment to be inflicted in a particular case shall be determined by the court authorized to pass sentence, within such limits as may be prescribed by this Code.
[§ 1, Ord. 265]
There is hereby established in the City of Avalon a City Jail to be located at Falls Canyon, which City Jail is hereby declared to be and is hereby designated as a jail and place wherein shall be confined any person ordered committed for the violation of any laws of the City or laws of the State properly within the jurisdiction of the City of Avalon. Every person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this Code and sentenced to imprisonment shall be imprisoned in the City Jail or County Jail.
[§ 1, Ord. 412]
Persons confined in the City Jail pursuant to a final judgment of imprisonment for violation of or failure to comply with any of the provisions of any law of the City or any penal provision of the State or for any violation of any of the provisions of this Code may be required by the Chief of Police to perform clerical or menial labor on the streets or other public property or works within the City of Avalon.
As used in this section, "streets or other public property or works within the City of Avalon" shall include, among other things, the City Jail or any camp maintained within the City.
[§ 1, Ord. 835, eff. December 1, 1988; § 2, Ord. 1135-14, eff. January 1, 2015]
The amount of any fee, charge, fine, penalty, utility charge, license or tax of any nature whatsoever imposed by any provision of this Code shall be deemed a civil debt owing to the City. An action may be commenced in the name of the City in any court of competent jurisdiction for the collection of the amount of any such fee, charge, fine, penalty, utility charge, license or tax. The remedy prescribed by this section shall be cumulative and the use of an action to collect such an amount as a debt by civil action shall not ban the use of any other remedy provided by this Code or by law.
The City shall be entitled to all costs and attorneys' fees it incurs in enforcing the Code and in any collection action pursuant to the Code.