(a) Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these Codified Ordinances, including any provision of any standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, and including any rule or regulation promulgated under authority of any such standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of any other provision of these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of State law, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each offense. The payment of fines and costs of prosecution may also be enforced summarily against the property of the delinquent. The penalty may also include, or consist of:
(1) A requirement that the defendant perform some reasonable public service work such as but not limited to the picking up of litter in public parks or along public highways or the maintenance of public facilities.
A. No person assigned to a public service work shall be considered an employee of the City for any purpose, nor shall the City be obligated to provide any compensation for such person.
(2) Restitution to the person or persons who received any injury to their person or damage to their real or personal property as a result of the offense.
(b) Any person convicted of a violation of any section to this Code shall, in addition to the fine assessed, be required to pay all of the City’s expenses, including attorneys fees, of enforcing and prosecuting the ordinance violation.
(c) Any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Code or any ordinance of the City shall be deemed a public nuisance and shall be subject to abatement by the city.
(d) Unless otherwise provided, a separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues. The penalty provided for herein shall be in addition to any fee, deposit, charge, surcharge, interest, insurance or bond requirement or equitable remedy provided in these Codified Ordinances, or in any standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or in any rule or regulation promulgated under authority of any such standard, technical or other code adopted by reference in these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of any other provision of these Codified Ordinances, or under authority of State law.
(e) Except as may be otherwise provided in 720 ILCS 5/8-2 and 8-4, every person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit or aids or abets in the commission of any act declared in any ordinance of the City to be an offense, whether individually or in connection with another person, or as principal, agent or accessory, shall be guilty of such offense. Every person who falsely, fraudulently, forcibly or willfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits or directs another to violate any provision of such an ordinance shall likewise be guilty of such offense.
(Ord. 2007-2-1. Passed 2-14-07; Ord. 2019-11-2. Passed 11-13-19.)