Pursuant to the authority conferred upon home rule units under the Constitution of the State of Illinois of 1970, the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Mettawa have determined to impose a penalty for violation of the provisions of this subchapter, as follows:
A. In addition to the other provisions hereunder, any person found guilty in a court of competent jurisdiction of violating, disobeying, neglecting, or refusing to comply with or resisting or opposing the enforcement of any provision hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine as set forth in Chapter 2, Village Government, Article X, Tax, Fee, Fine and Penalty Schedules, Section 2.1003, Fine and Penalty Schedule.
B. In addition to the above and foregoing, any person who willfully falsifies the value of the transferred real estate on the declaration of value required by Section 19.202 or who willfully falsifies or willfully omits any other information required by this subchapter or who willfully and falsely claims a transaction to be exempt under Section 19.205 thereof, shall be punished by a fine as set forth in Chapter 2, Village Government, Article X, Tax, Fee, Fine and Penalty Schedules, Section 2.1003, Fine and Penalty Schedule.
(Ord. 328, passed 4-10-96; Am. Ord. 341, passed 5-8-96; Am. Ord. 852, passed 10-20-2020)