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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances_1940_CCv0001.pdf ORDINANCE NO. 1940 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING GENERAL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF THE REDLANDS ORDINANCE CODE (RECODIFICATION PROJECT) THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS DOES ORDAIN as follows : SECTION 1 : Article 103 is hereby added to the Redlands Ordinance Code, to read as follows: "ARTICLE 103 PENALTIES 10301 . VIOLATIONS -- MISDEMEANOR. Unless a different penalty is prescribed for violation of a specific provision of this Code, every act prohib- ited or declared unlawful and every failure to perform an act made mandatory by this Code is punishable as a misde- meanor. Every person who causes, aids, abets or conceals a violation of this Code is guilty of violating this Code. Each person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day or portion thereof during which any violation of any provision of this Code is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation and shall be punishable therefore as provided in this Section and Section 10302 . § 10302. GENERAL PENALTIES. Except in cases where a different punishment is specifically prescribed elsewhere in this Code, every misdemeanor offense is pun- ishable by imprisonment in the City Jail or in the San Bernardino County Jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ( $1 , 000) , or by both; provided that where the City Attorney determines that such action would be in the interests of justice, the City Attorney may specify in the accusatory pleadings that the offense shall be an infraction. Except as otherwise prescribed elsewhere in this Code, every offense specifically declared to be an infraction is punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ( $100 ) for a first violation, ' a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ( $200) for a second violation of the same provision within one year , and a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ( $500 ) for each addi- tional violation of the same provision within one year . An infraction is not punishable by imprisonment . A person charged with an infraction shall not be entitled to a trial by jury and shall not be entitled to have the public defender or other counsel appointed at public expense to represent him unless he is arrested and not released on his written promise to appear, his own recognizance, or a deposit of bail . " SECTION 2: This Ordinance shall be in force and take effect as provided by law. SECTION 3: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordi- nance and cause it to be published once in the Redlands Daily Facts, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in this City. J N Mayor of the City of Redlands ATTEST: C erk -2- LAA0056 A- I, Lorrie Poyzer, City Clerk of the City of Redlands, hereby certify that Ordinance No. 1940 — was duly adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 200th — day of May 1986 , by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers DeMirjyn, Johnson, Wormser; Mayor Beswick NOES: None ABSENT: Councilmember Larsen cl-ty lerk, CiWof -Redlands