[Ord. No. 615 §1, 6-10-2009]
A.
Whenever
in this Code or in any ordinance of the City or in any rule, regulation,
notice, condition, term or order promulgated by any officer or agency
of the City under authority duly vested in him/her or it any act is
prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense or 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 therefore, the violation of any such provision
of this Code or any such ordinance, rule, regulation, order or notice
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)
or by imprisonment not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment, but in any case wherein the penalty for an
offense is fixed by any Statute, the same penalty shall apply.
B.
Except
where otherwise provided, each and every day any violation of this
Code or any ordinance of the City or any rule, regulation, order or
notice promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority
duly vested in him/her or it 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.
D.
In case of the amendment by the Board of Aldermen of any Section of such Code for which a penalty is not provided, the general penalty as provided in Subsection (A) of this Section shall apply to the Section as 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provided in such other Section shall be held to relate to the Section so amended, unless such penalty is specifically repealed therein.
