(A) Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99 of this code.
(B) Any person, company or corporation refusing or neglecting to comply with any of the provisions of § 153.01 of this chapter after being notified by the Town Council shall forfeit and pay to the town the sum of $5 for each day such notice is not complied with. Such forfeiture shall be enforced by complaint being filed with any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter within the county.
(C) Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of § 153.15 of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed $20.
(D) Any person found to have violated § 153.16 of this chapter shall be fined in a sum not to exceed $100. Each day that the sign or obstruction is not removed subsequent to the service of the initial notice of code violation shall constitute a separate offense. Any person who causes damage to a sidewalk located in the business district of the town as a result of a violation of § 153.16 of this chapter shall pay restitution to the town in an amount necessary to properly repair the damage to the sidewalk.
(E) (1) Any owner or occupant of abutting property who shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of § 153.17 of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $2 nor more than $10, such prosecution to be in the name of the town before a Justice of the Peace having his or her office within said town or before the Circuit Court of the county, and in case there is no acting Justice of the Peace within said town, such prosecution may be brought before any Justice of the Peace in the county upon a warrant issued by said Justice, as in the case of misdemeanors. Such person, on conviction, shall stand committed until the judgment and costs are paid or replevied, and in default of payment or replevy of such judgment and costs, the defendant, unless a woman, may be adjudged and required to pay the same by manual labor upon the streets or other public works of said town, for which labor such defendant shall be credited on such judgment and costs $1 per day.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Town Marshal or other officer, as the Town Council may direct, to cause such defendant to work not less than six hours nor more than ten hours per day, and each evening to return him to the custody of the keeper of the prison to which such defendant was committed.
(3) Upon payment, as aforesaid, of such judgment and costs, such defendant shall be discharged. The Marshal is hereby authorized and required to perform all the duties herein prescribed and to use all proper means thereto, and the Town Council is vested with full authority to pass bylaws and ordinances for compelling the enforcement of such manual labor by such defendant. Such defendant may be committed to the Town Prison, or if there be none, then to the County Jail.
(F) Any person, firm, corporation or other entity violating the terms and provisions of § 153.18 of this chapter shall be subject to a fine in a sum not exceeding $500, plus costs. In addition, any person who causes any damage to any sidewalk designated under § 153.18 in violation of § 153.18 shall be responsible to make restitution to the town for any expense incurred for the repair of said damage.
(Ord. 73, passed 4-25-1904; Ord. 76, passed 5-23-1904; Ord. 83, passed 4-23-1906; Ord. 99-09, passed 12-6-1999)