(A) General penalty. Unless otherwise specifically provided, any person by any provision of this code is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $50, nor more than $1,000. Each day on which a violation of this code occurs or continues is a separate offense.
(1960 Code, § 1.09)
(B) Warrant fee. The City Police Department is hereby authorized to charge a warrant fee in the amount of $20 per arrest warrant executed.
(1960 Code, § 1.10)
(C) Work by prisoner. Every person committed to the county jail under the provisions of any ordinance of the city shall work at such labor as his or her strength will permit, not exceeding eight hours for each working day; and, for such work, the person so employed shall be allowed, exclusive of his or her board, $1 for each day’s work, on account of such fine and costs.
(1960 Code, § 1.11)
(D) Costs against prosecutor. In proceedings for the recovery of any fine or penalty imposed by any ordinance of the city where the defendant is arrested on warrant and is acquitted on the trial, if it appears to the court or magistrate before whom such trial takes place, that there was no reasonable ground for such proceeding, or that it was instituted vexatiously and maliciously without probable cause, he or she may render judgment against the prosecutor for the costs of such proceeding and issue execution thereon as in other cases.
(1960 Code, § 1.12)
(Ord. 2687, passed - -; Ord. 5759, passed 7-21-1997; Ord. 6300, passed 5-21-2001)