§ 1-5. General penalty; remedies generally; continuing violations.

A. 

Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance, resolution or regulation promulgated by any officer or agency of the City under authority vested in him or it by law or ordinance, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a 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, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution or regulation shall be punished by either a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not more than six months, or both; provided, that the imposition of any such fine or imprisonment shall not bar institution of appropriate legal actions or proceedings by the City to restrain, correct or abate the violation, nor shall the institution of such legal actions or proceedings be deemed a bar to the imposition of such fine or imprisonment.

B. 

Except as otherwise provided, each day any violation of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution or regulation continues shall constitute a separate offense.

Amended by Ord. No. 81-41