(A) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to allow the city to enact, make, amend, revise or repeal all such ordinances, resolutions and regulations as may be proper and necessary to carry into effect the powers granted thereto and to provide for a punishment for each violation thereof by fine.
(Prior Code, § T-1-1)
(B) Amendment of section subject to penalty. Amendment to any section of this code containing provisions for which a penalty is provided in another section shall be held to relate and apply to the section so amended, whether reenacted in the mandatory ordinance or not, unless otherwise specifically provided therein.
(Prior Code, § T-1-3)
(C) Offenses having two penalties. Where the same offense is made punishable by different clauses or sections of existing or subsequently enacted code or ordinance, the city, in a prosecution based thereunder, may elect under which clause or section to proceed, but not more than one recovery shall be had against the same person for the same offense.
(Prior Code, § T-1-4)
Editor’s note:
For authority, see U.S. Constitution, Amend. V, and South Dakota Constitution, Art. VI, § 9.
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see SDCL § 9-19-3