(a) Every person failing to perform the duties required of him by or to comply with the provisions of section 12-2 shall, for every offense, be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00), and each day's continuance of any such violation shall be a separate offense.
(b) As an alternative remedy to subsection (a), any owner who violates any provision of section 12-2 and has been previously issued at least one (1) nuisance citation for a violation or violations on the same property within a Twenty-four (24)-month period, may also be assessed civil fines of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) no more than one thousand-five hundred dollars ($1,500.00), pursuant to the civil fine guidelines as set forth herein.
(c) Civil fines assessed for violations of section 12-2 shall be based on the number of citations issued within a Twenty-four (24)-month period, as follows:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5+ | |
Number of Citations | $100.00 | $250.00 | $500.00 | $1,000.00 | $1,500.00 |
Editor's note(s)—Ord. No. 220-2016 , § 11, adopted December 6, 2016 repealed § 12-5 and renumbered § 12-8.2 as § 12-5. Former § 12-5 pertained to declaring weeds a nuisance and derived from Ord. No. 268-95, adopted November 30, 1995; Ord. No. 339-99, December 7, 1999; and Ord. No. 74-2013, July 2, 2013.