(a) Unless otherwise provided in this Code, when a civil violation or civil infraction is determined, the following penalties shall be imposed:
(1) A person found responsible for a civil violation or civil infraction for the first time shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per civil violation or civil infraction. A person found responsible for the same civil violation or civil infraction for a second time shall be fined not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per civil violation or civil infraction. A person found responsible for the same civil violation or civil infraction for a third or subsequent time shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per civil violation or civil infraction. The imposition of a fine for civil violations or civil infractions shall not be suspended.
(2) The magistrate, special magistrate or limited special magistrate shall, after a finding of responsibility, order abatement of the civil violation or civil infraction. An abatement order shall be effective for one (1) year unless stayed on appeal. If stayed on appeal the order shall be effective for one (1) year from the end of the appeal if the finding of responsible and sentence is upheld.
(3) The magistrate, special magistrate or limited special magistrate shall warn a violator that additional fines will be imposed for failure to abate a violation, and criminal charges may be brought by the city attorney for failure to obey an order to abate a violation.
(b) Failure of a defendant to comply with any order contained in a judgment for a civil violation or civil infraction shall result in an additional fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for each day the defendant fails to comply. A defendant's second failure to comply with any order contained in a judgment for a civil violation or civil infraction shall result in an additional fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for each day after the first determination of the defendant's failure to comply; a defendant's third and subsequent failures to comply with any order contained in a judgment for a civil violation or civil infraction shall result in an additional fine of not less than three hundred dollars ($300.00) nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) for each day after the second or subsequent determination of the defendant's failure to comply; provided, however, that the total fines imposed by this subsection and subsection (a) shall not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per civil violation or civil infraction.
(Ord. No. 7887, § 6, 8-2-92; Ord. No. 8154, § 2, 11-8-93; Ord. No. 8672, § 1, 4-8-96; Ord. No. 11393, § 3, 8-9-16; Ord. No. 12110, § 1, 8-7-24; Ord. No. 12115, § 3, 8-27-24)