City of Park Hills, MO General Penalty

[R.O. 2016 § 100.200; CC 1994 § 1.500; Ord. No. 200-98 §§ 1 — 2, 5-12-1998]

Whenever in this Code or any other ordinance of the City, or in any Section of 10 CSR 90-2, 10 CSR 90-3, or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the City, or of the State of Missouri authorized to administer or operate State parks, under authority duly vested in him/her or it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor, or ordinance violation or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor, 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 County Jail not exceeding three (3) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment as may be just for an offense; provided that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by a Statute of the State, the statutory penalty, and no other, shall be imposed for such offense.

Each day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance or any such rule, regulation, notice or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, by an amendment thereof, or by any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, such prohibition shall extend to and include the causing, securing, aiding, or abetting of another person to do said act. Whenever any act is prohibited by this Code, an attempt to do the act is likewise prohibited.

Section 100.210 Failure To Pay Fine Or Costs; Imprisonment; Authority.

[R.O. 2016 § 100.210; CC 1994 § 1.505]

When a person is sentenced for violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance of the City, or for violation of any rule, regulation or order promulgated or given pursuant hereto, and said sentence includes a fine or cost of prosecution and such fine or cost of prosecution is not paid, the person under remittance shall be imprisoned one (1) day for every ten dollars ($10.00) of any such unpaid fine or costs, or both the fine and costs, not to exceed a total of three (3) months.

Section 100.220 Work Program.

[R.O. 2016 § 100.220; CC 1994 § 1.510]

Any person sentenced to imprisonment for violations of any provisions of this Code or for any other ordinance of this City, or of any rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant there to and any person who fails to pay a fine imposed for any such violation, or the cost of prosecution may be put to work and perform labor on the public streets or other public works or buildings of the City for such purposes as the City may deem necessary. Every eight (8) hours of community work that the person does shall count as one (1) day toward the imprisonment sentence that he/she received.

Any person who fails to pay a fine imposed for any such violation, or the cost of prosecution, may be put to work to perform labor on the public streets or other public works or property of the City for such purposes as the City may deem necessary. The person put to work to pay off such a fine shall be credited with the minimum wage per hour for the work that he/she works and he/she is not entitled to any benefits nor is he/she entitled to any claim of Workers' Compensation for any injuries that he/she may suffer by waiving these upon agreeing to work off his/her fine.

The Chief of Police shall cause all such prisoners, as may be directed by the Municipal Judge, to work out the full number of days for which they had been sentenced or to work off their fines by performing labor on the public streets or other public works or buildings of the City as may be designated by the Chief of Police through the advice and direction of the Mayor, City Administrator, Street Commissioner, Water and Sewage Department Supervisor, and the Parks and Recreation Supervisor.

Section 100.230 Penalty As To Amendments.

[R.O. 2016 § 100.230; CC 1994 § 1.515; Ord. No. 200-98 §§ 1 — 2, 5-12-1998]

In case of the amendment by the City Council of any Section of the Code, or the amendment of 10 CSR 90-2 or 10 CSR 90-3 by those duly authorized to do so for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty of this Article shall apply to the Sections amended; or in case such amendment contains provisions for which a penalty other than the aforementioned general penalty is provided in another Section in the same Chapter, the penalty so provided in such other Section shall be held to relate to the Section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.