§ 1-6. General penalty; continuing violations.

Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the city, or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city under authority duly vested in him or if any act is prohibited, or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or wherever in such Code or ordinance 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 such ordinance, rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00); unless the ordinance governs fire safety, zoning, public health, or sanitation, including dumping of refuse, in which case an offense arising under it shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); provided, that where the offense is one for which a penalty is fixed by state law, the penalty for such offense shall be the same as fixed by state law.

Each day any violation of any provision of this Code or other ordinance of the city shall continue shall constitute a separate offense, unless otherwise provided.

(Ord. No. 5853, § 1, 9-6-90)

State law reference

Penalty for ordinance violations, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code 54.001.

Charter reference

Authority for city council to prescribe fines for violation of city ordinances, Art. III, § 28(b).