[Amended by L.L. No. 1-1997]
Notwithstanding any other section of this chapter, any user
who is found to have violated any provision of this chapter, or any
permit, license, approval, or order issued hereunder, shall be fined
by the Superintendent in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per violation.
Each day on which noncompliance shall occur or continue shall be deemed
a separate and distinct violation. Such assessments may be added to
the user's next scheduled sewer service charge and the Superintendent
shall have such other collection remedies as are available to collect
other service charges. Unpaid charges, fines, and penalties, after
final action by the Superintendent or after final action by the Common
Council after an appeal from a decision of the Superintendent, shall
constitute a lien against the user's property.
Any user who is found to have violated an order issued hereunder
or who willfully or negligently failed to comply with any provision,
prohibition, limitation or requirement of this chapter, or any permit,
license or approval issued hereunder shall be fined not less than
$1,000 nor more than $10,000 per day of each offense or violation.
Each day on which a violation shall occur or continue shall be deemed
a separate and distinct offense. In addition to the penalties provided
herein, the City may recover as a civil penalty actual damages incurred
by the City to its sewage system, as well as reasonable attorneys'
fees, court costs, court reporters' fees and other expenses of litigation
by appropriate suit at law against the user.
Any user who willfully or negligently violates any provision,
limitation, prohibition, or requirement of this chapter or any order,
permit, license, or approval issued hereunder, shall, upon conviction,
be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than
$300 nor more than $1,000 per violation per day, or imprisonment for
not less than 16 days nor more than one year, or both.
Any person who knowingly makes any false statements, representations
or certifications in any application, record, report, plan or other
document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this chapter
or wastewater contribution permit, or who falsifies, tampers with,
or knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method required
under this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of
not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than six months,
or by both.
