§ 1-8. General penalty.

Whenever in this Code, or in any ordinance of the city, or in any Code or other provision adopted by reference by the city, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or whenever in such Code or ordinance 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, concealing of a violation, or the harboring, assisting or protecting of a person charged with or convicted of a violation of any such provision of this Code or any ordinance, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000.00, plus costs, by sentence of imprisonment not exceeding six months and to work on the streets or public works for a period not exceeding 12 months, or any or all such penalties in the discretion of the municipal court judge. Each day during which any such violation continues shall be a separate offense.

(Code 1986, § 1-6)

State law reference

Confinement of violators of ordinances, O.C.G.A. § 36-30-8.

Charter reference

Powers of municipal court, § 37.

Editor's note

Charter § 36 permits a maximum $1,000.00 fine, plus costs, six months' imprisonment or 12 months' work on the work gang, any one or more. However, the penalty as provided in the above section 1-8 would be applicable to Code violations, unless otherwise stated in other sections of the Code.