(a) If any person fails to appear at a duly scheduled hearing or trial in municipal court, who was issued a citation or summons to appear, or who has been arrested, and thereafter released upon his personal recognizance or otherwise admitted to bail, and who shall willfully and without just cause fail to appear as and when it may be required, may be apprehended and brought before the court by capias.
(b) Any person, who has been issued a citation or summons to appear, or arrested, and thereafter released upon his personal recognizance or otherwise admitted to bail, and who shall willfully and without just cause fail to appear at a duly scheduled hearing or trial in municipal court, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or confined in jail for not more than ten (10) days, or both such fine and confinement.