(a) Whenever, in the Codified Ordinances or in any ordinance of the Municipality, any 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, the commission or performance of such act, or the failure to commit or perform such act, as required, shall, unless another penalty is provided, be deemed a minor misdemeanor and the offender shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) 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) A person confined in the workhouse and/or City Jail under a sentence imposing a fine which he or she is unable or unwilling to pay shall receive credit upon such fine in the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) per day of confinement until such fine is paid, or such other sum as may be established from time to time by the Garfield Heights Municipal Court.
This subsection shall apply to persons confined in the workhouse and/or City Jail for payment of fines at the time of the passage of this subsection, and the credit of thirty dollars ($30.00) per day (or such other sum, as aforesaid) shall be calculated from the day upon which confinement began. Any person whose credit toward the payment of a fine is found to exceed that fine shall be immediately released, provided that no person whose credit towards payment of a fine is calculated retroactively under this subsection shall have a claim against the City for any excess credit heretofore earned.