[Order No. 07-12-2006A §1, 7-12-2006]
The Jefferson County Americans with Disabilities Act/Section
504 Self-Evaluation Plan that is identified as Attachment A, which
is on file in the County offices, and is incorporated by this reference
as if fully set out herein, be adopted as the Self-Evaluation Plan
for Jefferson County as required under the ADA.
It is hereby declared to be the intention of the County Council
that the Chapters, Sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases
of this Code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph,
Section or Chapter of this Code shall be declared unconstitutional
or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of any court
of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity
shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs, Sections and Chapters of this Code since the same would
have been enacted by the County Council without the incorporation
in this Code of any such unconstitutional or invalid phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or Section.
A.
Whenever
in this Code or any other ordinance of the County, or in any rule,
regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of
the County 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 or
a 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
one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the County
Jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
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, except that imprisonments may be in the
County prison or workhouse instead of the County Jail. Unless otherwise
specified in this Code, violations shall be prosecuted in the Jefferson
County Municipal Court by the Municipal Prosecutor.
B.
Every
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.
C.
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.
