[Adopted as §§ 1.06, 1.07, 1.08, 1.12 of the 2008 Municipal Code]
A. 
Standard penalty. Unless another penalty is specifically provided by this Code for violation of any particular provision, section or chapter, any person violating any provision of this Code, or any rule of regulation adopted or issued in pursuance thereof, or any provision of any code adopted herein by reference, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $750, plus associated costs.
B. 
Commitment. The person upon whom any fine or penalty is imposed for violation of any provision of this Code or any ordinance of the Village, upon order of the court before whom the conviction is had, may be committed to county jail as provided by law, or to any other place provided by ordinance for the incarceration of offenders until the fine, penalty, and costs are fully paid. No imprisonment, however, shall exceed six months for any one offense.
C. 
Each day of violation. Each act of violation and each day upon which a violation occurs or continues constitute a separate offense.
D. 
Applicability. The penalty provided by this section applies to the amendment of any section of this Code or a code adopted herein by reference, whether or not such penalty is reenacted in the amendatory ordinance.
E. 
Reference to sections. Reference to a section of this Code shall be understood also to refer to and include the penalty section relating thereto, unless otherwise expressly provided.
F. 
Failure of officers to perform duties. The failure of an officer or employee of the Village to perform an official duty imposed by this Code shall not subject such officer or employee to the penalty imposed for violation of this Code, unless a penalty is specifically provided in the section creating the duty.
G. 
Education program; public service work. A penalty imposed for violation of an ordinance may include, at the discretion of the Board, or consist of, a requirement that the defendant do one or both of the following:
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 100, General Provisions, Art. I)]
(1) 
Complete an education program, except that a holder of a valid commercial driver's license who commits a vehicle weight or size restriction violation shall not be required to complete an education program under this section.
(2) 
Perform some reasonable public service work such as but not limited to the picking up of litter in public parks or along public highways or the maintenance of public facilities.
A. 
Any offenses arising under the ordinances of the Village of Forrest may be settled and compromised by the offender within seven days of the time a notice is delivered to the offender or persons of suitable age and discretion upon his or her premises by payment to the Village Clerk of Forrest. The sum of money for such offenses is set in each ordinance for said offense.
B. 
Settlement payments shall be made to the Village Clerk, who shall provide the alleged offender with a receipt in the amount of such payment.
C. 
The amounts paid to the Village Clerk, in settlement of the foregoing claims, shall be promptly deposited by the Village Clerk and shall be credited to the general fund.
D. 
The Village shall refrain from prosecuting any alleged offender of the foregoing offenses after receipt of such settlement payment.
E. 
Offenders shall, in addition to the settlement charges, be liable to the Village for the cost to the Village of correcting the aforementioned wrongful acts.
Every person concerned in the commission of an act prohibited by this Code, whether said person directly commits the act, or prosecutes, counsels, aids, or abets in its commission, may be prosecuted and on conviction is punishable as if said person had directly committed such act.
The revocation of a license of permit shall not be considered a recovery or penalty so as to bar any penalty being enforced.