§ 1-8. General penalty; continuing violations; violation as public nuisance.

Whenever in this Code, or in any ordinance or resolution of the city, or rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the city under authority duly vested in him or it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful, or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared unlawful and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for a period not exceeding sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day any violation or any provision of this Code or of any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or order, shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be, by the city, abated as provided by law, and each day that such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and separate offense.

(Code 1971, § 1-8; Ord. No. 2005-041, § 1, 11-22-05)

State law reference

Abatement of public nuisances, F.S. § 60.05.

Charter reference

Maximum penalty for violating ordinances, Pt. I, Art. 3, § 1(25).