Whenever, in the Xenia City Code or in any ordinance of the City, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful, an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever the doing of any act is required and the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, and where no specific penalty is otherwise provided, whoever violates any such provision shall be guilty of a unclassified misdemeanor and the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to ORC 2929.21 to 2929.28; except that the offender shall not be sentenced to a jail term, nor shall the offender be sentenced to a community residential sanction pursuant to ORC 2929.26. Notwithstanding ORC 2929.28(A)(2)(a), the offender may be fined up to one thousand dollars ($1,000), and notwithstanding ORC 2929.27(A)(3), the offender may be ordered pursuant to division (C) of that section to serve a term of community service of up to five hundred (500) hours. The failure of an offender to complete a term of community service imposed by the court may be punished as indirect criminal contempt under ORC 2705.02(A) that may be filed in the underlying case. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which the violation occurs or noncompliance continues, unless otherwise provided in the relevant title, chapter, section, or division.
(Ord. 2021-23. Adopted 12/29/21)