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ORDINANCE NO. 1236
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
TITLE 1 OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE
BY THE AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 1.08 TO REVISE THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF
CITY ORDINANCES.
The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California does
Irdain as follows:
SECTION 1: That Title 1 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code is
imended by the amendment of Chapter 1.08
"Chapter 1.08
PENALTY
to read as follows:
Sections :
1.08.010 Penalties designated.
1.08.010 Penalties designated. (a Whenever in Chapters
3.16, 8.24 and 11.28 of this code any act is prohibited or is
nade or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or the doing of iny act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to
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le unlawful or a misdemeanor, the violation-of any such provision is a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
Eive hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six nonths, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
:ode or in any other ordinance of the City, any act is prohibited )r is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or the doing >f any act, is required or the failure to do any act is declared to le unlawful or a misdemeanor, the violation of any such provisions
if the city is, unless otherwise stated in this section, an
infraction and shall be punishable by:
(1) A fine not exceeding fifty dollars for the Eirst violation;
(2) A fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for a ;econd violation of the same ordinance within one year;
(3) A fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars Eor a third violation of the same ordinance within one year. rhe fourth and each additional violation of the same ordinance
Jithin one year is a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine
lot exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not
2xceeding six months,or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Each and every day during any portion of which any 7iolation of this code or any other ordinance of the city is :omitted, continued or permitted shall be a separate offense.
(b) Except as provided in Subsection (a), whenever in this
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Payment of a fine shall not excuse payment of any fee
Nothing contained in this section shall preclude
required by this code or any other city ordinance.
the city from enforcing the provisions of this code or any other ordinance through any other available methods including but not limited to abatement of public nuisances.
in this code or any other city ordinances." (f) This section shall supersede all other penalty sections
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective
thirty days after its adoption, and the City Clerk shall
certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be
published at least once in the Carlsbad Journal within
fifteen days after its adoption.
INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the
Carlsbad City Council held on the 16th day of December I
1980 and thereafter
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 6th day of January , 1981 by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES : Council Members Casler, Anear, Lewis and Kulchin
NOES : None
r" rt ABSENT : Counci 1 Member Packard
RONALD C/ PACKARD, Mayor
MARY H. CkSLER, Vice-Mayor ATTEST :
( SEAL
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