§ 1-12. General penalty; continuing violations.

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate or fail to comply with any provision of this Code and where no specific penalty is provided therefore, the violation of any provision of this Code shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.00 or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both. Each day any violation of any provision of this Code shall continue constitutes a separate offense. Punishment by imprisonment a provided in this section may include mandatory performance of manual labor on the public streets or not, at the discretion of the court imposing such penalty. Where punishment by imprisonment, as provided in this section does not include mandatory labor on the public street, and the prisoner so sentenced shall be willing of his own free will to perform manual labor upon any of the public roads, streets or public buildings, works or improvements inside or outside of the jail or upon any cemetery or graveyard, the chief of police shall, with the consent of the sentencing court, set the prisoner to work upon labor to be determined from time to time by the mayor and board of aldermen in any regular or special meeting. This [The] prisoners shall always remain under the custody and control of the police. Any prisoner not sentenced to work on the public streets by voluntarily consenting to work under the provisions of this section shall have as many days taken off or remitted from his sentence as he shall have worked, provided always that he shall have demonstrated good behavior during the term of his imprisonment and custody.

(Code 1958, § 1-8; Ord. No. 999, 4-12-04)