(a) Whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance of the city, or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city under authority duly vested in him, or it, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required, or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provisions of this Code or any other ordinance of the city or such rule, regulation or order shall be punished as indicated below:
(1) If the violation is a Class A misdemeanor, it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) or by confinement in the county jail for a definite term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and confinement;
(2) If the violation is a Class B misdemeanor, it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by confinement in the county jail for a definite term not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and confinement;
(3) If the violation is a Class C misdemeanor it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by confinement in the county jail for a definite term not exceeding one month, or by both such fine and confinement.
(b) If any act or omission is declared to be a Class A, Class B, or a Class C misdemeanor, it shall be punishable as provided in subsection (a). In the absence of any penalty being specified, an offense shall be a Class C misdemeanor.
(c) Except as otherwise provided, every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance of the city or any rule, regulation or order shall continue, shall constitute a separate offense.
Cross reference–Attempts to commit ordinance violation, § 16-2.