Subject: 9802/City Code/1-8/General Penalty Provisions
Date: Thu, 17 May 1990 11:50:00 -0500


                                ORDINANCE NO. 9802
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PART II, CHATTANOOGA
                   CITY CODE, BY PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES OF UP
                   TO FIVE HUNDRED AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($500.00)
                   FOR THE VIOLATION OF ANY CITY ORDINANCE AND
                   AMENDING SECTION 1-8 AND OTHER SECTIONS OF
                   SAID CODE IMPOSING A MAXIMUM FINE OR PENALTY
                   SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS SET FORTH
                   HEREIN.
                  
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
       	    	 SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
       CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Part II, Chattanooga City
       Code, Part II, Section 1-8, be and is hereby amended by repealing 

       the same and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
           Sec. 1-8.  General penalty; exceptions; continuing
                         violations.
          
            	 (a)  Wherever in this Code or in any ordinance or
            rule or regulation promulgated by any officer of the
            city under authority vested in him by law or ordinance,
            any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or a
            misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required, or the
            failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, the
            violation of any such provision of this Code or any such
            ordinance, rule or regulation shall be punished by a
            monetary penalty and forfeiture not exceeding five
            hundred dollars ($500.00).
           
            	 (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection
            (a), the penalties set forth in Chapter 4 and in
            Sections 24-304, 24-322 and 24-329 of this Code are not
            affected by this Section 1-8.
           
            	 (c)  Each day any violation of this Code or any
            such ordinance, rule or regulation continues shall
            constitute a separate offense.
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That all other
       Sections of Chattanooga City Code, Part II, which impose a 
maximum
       fine or penalty of less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) be 
and
       are hereby amended by deleting the maximum amount of monetary 
fine
       or penalty therein and inserting a new maximum fine or penalty of 

       five hundred dollars ($500.00), provided, that the penalties set
       forth in Chapter 4 and in Sections 24-304, 24-322 and 24-329 of
       this Code are not affected by this Ordinance.
       	    	 SECTION 3.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance
       shall take effect two (2) weeks from and after its passage as
       required by law.
      
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading October 20, 1992.     
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       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:_______ DISAPPROVED:_______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:_________________ ______, 1992.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	             MAYOR
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