[Adopted 11-13-1957 as Ch. 2 of the General Ordinances, approved 11-15-1957]
[Amended 3-26-1980, approved 3-27-1980; 9-14-1983, approved 9-15-1983[1][2][3][4]]
A. 
Any person violating any provision of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon, unless otherwise specifically provided by the Penal Law and for which no other penalty is provided, shall be guilty of an offense and shall be punishable by a fine which shall not exceed $250 or by imprisonment not exceeding 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, or by a penalty not exceeding $500 for a corporation, which may be recovered by the City in a civil action.
B. 
The City may maintain an action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with or to restrain by injunction the violation of any provision of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon, notwithstanding that the Code of the City of Mount Vernon may provide a penalty for such violation.
[1]
Editor's Note: Sections 2 and 3 of this ordinance read as follows:
[2]
"§ 2. Reference to any section of the General Ordinances of the City of Mount Vernon shall be understood to refer to and to include the amended penalty section as provided by § 1-4 of Chapter 1, unless otherwise expressly provided.
[3]
§ 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon approval of a 1983 local law, amending § 52 of Article V of Chapter 490 of the Laws of 1922, as amended, being the Charter of the City of Mount Vernon, under § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law."
[4]
Local Law No. 2-1983, which amended the above-mentioned § 52, was adopted 9-28-1983.
[Added 7-18-2006, approved 7-18-2006]
Any person, firm or corporation who unlawfully obtains water from the City of Mount Vernon Water Department by obtaining water before it is metered or any other method inconsistent with the established policies of the City of Mount Vernon shall be deemed guilty of theft of water and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of $500 plus the estimated cost of the water stolen for the first offense. All subsequent offenses shall be subject to a fine of $1,000 plus the estimated cost of the water stolen.
When an act or omission is declared by the Code of the City of Mount Vernon to be an offense and no punishment for aiding or abetting in the doing thereof is expressly prescribed, every person who aids or abets another in such act or omission is also guilty of such offense.
Reference to any section of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon shall be understood to refer to and to include the penalty section provided in this article unless otherwise expressly provided.
In the event of the amendment of any section of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon for which the penalty is provided in this article, the penalty herein provided shall be held to apply to the section so amended, whether reenacted in the amendatory ordinance or not, unless such penalty is specifically amended therein.