(A) Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99.
than $750. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(2) Any person found guilty of willfully failing to pay, collect, report or transmit any hotel or motel tax to the City Treasurer in accordance with the terms of this chapter shall, except when otherwise specifically provided, upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than $200 nor by more than $300 for the first offense, and not less than $300 nor more than $750 for the second and each subsequent offense in any 180-day period; provided, however, that all actions seeking the imposition of fines only shall be filed as quasi-criminal actions subject to the provisions of the Illinois Civil Procedure Act (ILCS Ch. 735, Act 5, §§ 1-101 et seq.).
(3) Repeated offenses in excess of three within any 180-day period may also be punishable as a misdemeanor by incarceration at the County Jail for a term not to exceed six months under the procedures set forth in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 1-2.1-1 and of the provisions of the Illinois Code of Criminal Procedure, (ILCS Ch. 725, Act 5, §§ 100-1 et seq.) in a separate proceeding. A separate and distinct offense shall be regarded as committed each day upon which the person shall continue any such violation, or permit any such violation to exist.
(Ord. 91-2, passed 1-28-1991)