(a) General Penalty. Whenever, in these Codified Ordinances, or in any technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated or made under authority of any provision of these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of any technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of State law, an act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is otherwise provided, whoever violates or fails to comply with any such provision shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), in addition to Court costs and probation for not more than two years, as determined by the Court, or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues, unless otherwise provided.
(b) Surcharges; Equitable Remedies. The imposition of any penalty provided for in this section shall be in addition to any surcharge levied for a violation of or noncompliance with a provision of these Codified Ordinances, or a provision of a technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or a rule, regulation or order promulgated or made under authority of either, or under authority of State law, and shall be in addition to any equitable remedy provided by a provision of these Codified Ordinances, or a provision of a technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or a rule, regulation or order promulgated or made under authority of either, or under authority of State law, including the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(c) Nuisances. If the doing of any act or the permitting of a condition to exist is declared to be a nuisance per se by any section of these Codified Ordinances, the doing of such act or the permitting of such condition to exist may be punished as provided in this section in addition to, or as an alternative procedure to, injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction or the abatement of such nuisance by procedures provided and permitted in the City Charter.
(1979 Code Sec. 1.08.010)
(d) Complicity. Every person concerned in the commission of an offense under these Codified Ordinances, whether he or she directly commits the act constituting the offense or procures, counsels, aids or abets in its commission, may be prosecuted, indicted, tried and on conviction shall be punished as if he or she had directly committed such offense.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(e) Attempts. Any person who attempts to commit an offense prohibited by any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances, except the offenses of assault and assault and battery, and in such attempt does any act towards the commission of such offense, but fails in the perpetration or is intercepted or prevented in the execution of the same, when no express provision is made herein for the punishment of such attempt, shall be punished by imprisonment and/or a fine not to exceed one-half of the greatest punishment which might have been inflicted if the offense so attempted had been committed.
(Res. 81-505. Passed 6-29-81.)