(A) General penalty established. If an ordinance, or code, does not specifically provide for the penalty for violating that ordinance, or code, then this section, along with the below-mentioned fines, will encompass those violations. This section is not designated to supersede any ordinance, or code, in which penalties have already been established. Any conflict between the penalties stated below, and any other ordinance, or code, violations will be resolved by deference to the more specific ordinance, or code, violation.
(B) Maximum penalties permitted.
(1) The city shall not inflict any fine, or penalty, by ordinance or otherwise, to a greater sum than $1,000 for any one specified offense, or violation, of a bylaw or ordinance, or double that sum for each repetition of such offense, or violation.
(2) If a thing prohibited, or rendered unlawful, is, in its nature, continuous in respect to time, the fine, or penalty, for allowing the continuance thereof, in violation of the bylaw or ordinance, shall not exceed $500 for each day that it may be unlawfully continued.
(3) If any bylaw, or ordinance, provides for any greater fine, penalty, or forfeiture than is provided in this section, it shall, and may be, lawful, in any suit or prosecution, for the recovery thereof, to reduce it to such amount as shall be deemed reasonable and proper, and to permit a recovery, or render a judgment, for such amount as authorized.
(A.C. § 14-55-504)