A.
Whenever in this code or in any other ordinance of the city or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city under authority duly vested in him or her or if any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, 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, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any section of this code is specifically deemed to be an infraction, as specified in the applicable section, chapter or title, it shall be treated as an infraction. In addition, unless otherwise specifically provided in this code, and as prescribed by Section 42001 of the Vehicle Code of the state, every person convicted of an infraction involving a vehicle shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, and for a second conviction within a period of one year, by a fine not exceeding $200, and for a third or any subsequent conviction within a period of one year, by a fine not exceeding $250. A pedestrian convicted of an infraction for a violation of this code as adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code of the state, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $50.
C.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this code, the prosecutor, in his or her sound discretion, may prosecute a violation of this code as an infraction, rather than as a misdemeanor. The prosecutor may also reduce or agree to the reduction of a previously filed misdemeanor to an infraction.
D.
Notwithstanding anything contained in this code, every person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation convicted of an infraction for violation of any provision of this chapter other than one covered in subsection B of this section, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 for a first violation, a fine not exceeding $200 for a second violation of the same section within a year and a fine not exceeding $500 for each additional violation of the same section within one year. A fourth violation within one year shall constitute a misdemeanor.
E.
In addition to the penalties provided by this section, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this code, or the provisions of any code adopted by reference by this code, shall be deemed a public nuisance, subject to abatement in accordance with law.
F.
Each day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this code is committed, continued or permitted, constitutes a new and separate offense.
(Ord. 128 § 4, 1965; Ord. 14-01 § 1, 2014)