(a) Unless otherwise provided, a person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
(b) A person who violates Section 656.02 of this chapter shall be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not more than forty-five days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(c) In addition to any penal sanction, a person who commits an act for which he or she could be charged with the crime of retail fraud in the first or second degree, as defined in Sections 356c and 356d of the Michigan Penal Code, Act 328 of the Public Acts of 1931, being M.C.L.A. 750.356c and 750.356d, shall be liable to the merchant who is the victim of the act for the full retail price of unrecovered property or recovered property that is not in salable condition, and responsible for a civil fine of ten times the retail price of the property, but not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) and not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), as provided in Section 2953, Act 50 of the Public Acts of 1988, being M.C.L.A. 600.2953.
(Ord. 22-95. Passed 7-18-95; Ord. 05-04. Passed 2-17-04; Ord. 06-2018. Passed 6-5-18.)