Davis Municipal Code/1.01.110

Davis Municipal Code Chapter 1

GENERAL PROVISIONS

1.01.110 Penalties.*

Whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance of the city or in any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any other ordinance of the city or any such rule or regulation shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such violations may also be redressed by civil action.

Except as otherwise specified in this Code, every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance of the city or any such rule or regulation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Code shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be, by this city, summarily abated, and a new and separate offense shall be deemed to exist each day such condition continues.

Whenever in this Code any act or omission is made unlawful, it shall include causing, permitting, aiding, abetting, suffering or concealing the fact of such act or omission. (Code 1964, §§ 1-4.01, 1-4.02; Ord. No. 788, § 1.)

*For state law authorizing city to impose fine and imprisonment for involving violation of ordinance to be a misdemeanor, see Gov. C., § 36900. As to penalty for violation of bicycle regulations, see § 6.01.040 of this Code.