(A) Actions, suits and prosecutions for the violation of any village ordinance may be commenced and prosecuted in the appropriate circuit court of the county and state.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 100)
(B) In all actions for the violation of any ordinance, the first process shall be a summons; provided, however, a warrant for the arrest of the offender may issue in the first instance upon the affidavit of any person making the complaint that has reasonable grounds to believe the party charged is guilty thereof; and any person arrested upon such warrant shall, without unnecessary delay, be taken before the proper circuit court to be tried for the alleged offense. Any person upon whom any fine or penalty shall be imposed may, upon the order of the court before whom the conviction is had, be committed to the county jail, village lock-up, or other place provided by the village for the incarceration of offenders, until such fine, penalty and costs shall be fully paid; provided, that no such imprisonment shall exceed six months for one offense.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 101)
(C) The manner of conducting trials for violations of village ordinances shall be the same as that provided in the statutes of the state.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 106)
(D) All officers making arrests shall attend as witnesses before the court when the trial may be had, and shall procure all necessary evidence in their power, and furnish at the request of the court a list of witnesses in said cause.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 107)
(E) No costs of any kind shall be taxed against or collected of said Village of Itasca in any case (brought for the violation of any ordinance), in which said village is plaintiff; but the court in its discretion may tax and give judgment for all costs against the prosecuting witness.
('52 Code,
Ch. 8, § 108)
(F) In all cases when any person convicted of violating any ordinance of the village, or where any person who has been accepted as special bail as aforesaid, shall fail, neglect or refuse forthwith to pay any fine or penalty and costs which may be adjudged against him, it shall be lawful for the court before which such conviction is had, after legal demand, to order that such person so convicted as aforesaid shall be committed to the village lock-up or other place provided by such village, or to the jail of DuPage County, until discharged according to law.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 109) (Ord. 108, passed 8-6-57)
(G) All fines and penalties for violation of any village ordinance, and all money collected for licenses, permits or otherwise, shall be paid in cash to the Village Treasurer within five days after collected.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 110)
(H) No suit, proceeding, right, fine or penalty instituted, created, given or accrued under any ordinance previous to its repeal, shall in anywise be affected, released or discharged by any such repeal, but may be prosecuted the same as if such ordinance had continued in force.
('52 Code, Ch. 8, § 112)