(a) A schedule of fines payable to the Municipal Ordinance Violations Bureau for admissions of responsibility by persons served with Municipal ordinance violation notices is hereby established. The fines for the violations listed below shall be as follows. Fines for second or third offenses shall be imposed for identical, continued violations of the first offense.
(1) First offense $ 50.00
(2) Second offense 250.00
(3) Third offense 500.00
(b) A copy of the schedule, as amended from time to time, shall be posted at the Bureau.
(c) Unless another penalty is expressly provided for in this section or by any other Village ordinance for the violation of any particular provision or section, every person found responsible by the judge or District Court magistrate for a violation of any provision of a Village ordinance designated as a Municipal civil infraction shall pay a civil fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), plus costs, damages and expenses, as follows:
(1) A person found responsible by the judge or District Court magistrate for any violation of a Village ordinance charged as a Municipal civil infraction shall pay the stipulated civil fine and costs to be determined by the court or magistrate, which may include all expenses, direct and indirect (including attorneys fees), to which the Village has been put in connection with the Municipal civil infraction, up to the entry of the judgment. Costs of not less than nine dollars ($9.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) shall be ordered.
(2) In addition to ordering the defendant to pay a civil fine, costs, damages and expenses, the judge or District Court magistrate may issue such writs or injunctive orders as are necessary to abate a nuisance as provided in M.C.L.A. 600.2940, or issue any judgment, writ or order necessary to enforce this chapter as provided in M.C.L.A. 600.8302.
(3) If a defendant fails to comply with an order or judgment issued pursuant to this section within the time prescribed by the court, the court may proceed under M.C.L.A. 600.8729 and M.C.L.A. 600.8731. A defendant who fails to answer a citation or notice to appear in court for a Municipal civil infraction is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) and costs of prosecution or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
(4) If a defendant does not pay a civil fine or costs or expenses or an ordered installment payment within thirty days after the date on which payment is due in a Municipal civil infraction action brought for a violation involving the use or occupation of land or a building or other structure, the Village may obtain a lien against the land, building or structure involved in the violation by recording a copy of the court order requiring payment of the fine, costs and expenses with the Eaton County Register of Deeds containing the legal description of the property, which lien may be recorded and enforced in the manner provided by M.C.L.A. 600.8731.
(5) In a Municipal civil infraction action involving the use or occupancy of land or a building or other structure, a copy of the citation need not be personally served upon the alleged violator but may be served upon an owner or occupant of the land, building or structure by posting the copy on the land or attaching the copy to the building or structure. In addition, a copy of the citation shall be sent by first-class mail to the owner of the land, building or structure at the owner's last known address.
(6) Each act of violation and every day upon which a violation shall occur shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 99-9. Passed 12-13-99.)