(a) General Penalty. Whenever, in these Codified Ordinances, or in any technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated or made under the authority of any provision of these Codified Ordinances, or under the authority of any technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or under the authority of State law, an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is otherwise provided, whoever violates or fails to comply with any such provision shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than ninty-three (93) days, or both, for each such offense, except for a violation of MCL 257.625(1)(c) which the Township adopts by reference in Section 412.01 of the Charter Township of Clinton Code of Ordinance in conformity with the Michigan Vehicle Code (“MVC”), Public Act 300 of 1949, as amended, and which shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable by one or more of the following:
(1) Community service for not more than three hundred sixty (360) hours.
(2) Imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
(3) A fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) or more than seven hundred dollars ($700.00).
A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues, unless otherwise provided.
(b) Surcharges; Equitable Remedies. The imposition of any penalty provided for in this section shall be in addition to any surcharge levied for a violation of or noncompliance with a provision of these Codified Ordinances, or a provision of a technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or a rule, regulation or order promulgated or made under authority of either, or under authority of State law, and shall be in addition to any equitable remedy provided by a provision of these Codified Ordinances, or a provision of a technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or a rule, regulation or order promulgated or made under authority of either, or under authority of State law, or provided by State law, including the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(c) Complicity. Every person concerned in the commission of an offense under these Codified Ordinance, whether he or she directly commits the act constituting the offense or procures, counsels, aids or abets in its commission, may be prosecuted, indicted, tried and on conviction shall be punished as if he or she had directly committed such offense.
(Ord. 448. Passed 2-4-19.)