§ 1-12. General penalty; continuing violations.

(a)

Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the city or rule, regulation or order promulgated pursuant to this Code or other ordinance of the city, 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 misdemeanor, and no specific penalty is provided therefor, upon conviction of a violation of any such provision of this Code or any such ordinance, rule, regulation or order, the violator shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for a period not exceeding three (3) months or both such fine and imprisonment; provided that in any case wherein the penalty for an offense as fixed by any statute of the state, the statutory penalty and no other, shall be imposed for the punishment of the offense, except that imprisonments may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail.

(b)

Each day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance, rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute, except where otherwise provided, a separate offense.

Code 1967, § 7-1; Ord. No. 1924, § 1, 8-26-74; Ord. No. 2061, § 2(7-29), 12-26-78)

State law reference

Maximum penalty for violations of ordinances, RSMo 77.590.