It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this Code or the provisions of any code adopted by reference by this Code or any provision of any ordinance of the City not included within this Code. Any person violating any of such provisions or failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements of this Code or any code adopted by reference by this Code or any other City ordinance shall be guilty of an infraction, unless such violation is specifically designated as constituting a misdemeanor. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this Code, or any provision of any code adopted by reference by this Code, or of any other City ordinance, is committed, continued, or permitted by such person, and may be punished accordingly.
Any provision or requirement of this Code or otherwise as referred to above, the violation of which or the failure to comply with which, is designated as an infraction, shall be prosecutable as a misdemeanor upon a third violation and each violation thereafter of the same provision by the same individual. In addition, any such violation or failure to comply may be prosecuted originally as a misdemeanor in the discretion of the City Attorney or any deputy district attorney, upon a showing by the enforcing agency of the seriousness of the particular alleged violation.
(3-12/90 § 1.01.200)