Whenever no other penalty is prescribed, any person convicted of violating any provision of any ordinance included in this code, or ordinances hereafter enacted, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding two hundred ninety nine dollars ($299.00), or by imprisonment in the city jail for a period not longer than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The court may, in imposing a fine, enter as part of the judgment that, in default of the payment of the fine, the defendant may be imprisoned in the city jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months. (Prior code § 15-1-1)