§ 1-9. General penalty; abatement.

(a)

Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the city or in any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this Code, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, misdemeanor or public nuisance, or whenever in such Code, ordinance, rule or regulation the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty, is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any ordinance, rule or regulation shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment for a term not exceeding sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day any violation of any provision of this Code or of any ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

(b)

In addition to the penalty provided in subsection (a), any condition which has been declared a nuisance may be abated as provided in this Code.

(Code 1960, § 1-8)

State law reference

Fines and forfeitures in county court payable to municipality, F.S. § 34.191; punishment for misdemeanors, F.S. §§ 775.082, 775.083.