§ 1.08.010. General penalty.

A.

Whenever in the ordinances of the town or this Code any action is prohibited, or is made or declared to be unlawful, or an offense, or the action is required, or the failure to do the action is declared to be unlawful; and where no specific penalty is specifically provided for violation of the statutes of said ordinances of the town or this Code, then the person or party committing such violation shall be guilty of an infraction with fines pursuant to Government Code § 36900.

B.

Any additional violation committed within one year of the first violation may be prosecuted by the town attorney as a misdemeanor with a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and/or six months in the county jail; and provided, however, the town attorney shall have the discretion to reduce the misdemeanor to an infraction.

C.

Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue constitutes a separate offense and is punishable as such.

D.

The aforementioned penalties shall not be deemed to exclude any other remedy for violation of any ordinances of the town or this Code.

(Ord. 76 § 1, 1982: Ord. 47 § 1 (A), 1981; Ord. No. 401, § 1, 8-26-2003)