Except for civil traffic violations for which the maximum sanction shall be two hundred fifty dollars unless a specific other penalty is provided for, whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the City any act is prohibited or is made or is 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, any person violating any such provisions of this Code or any ordinance is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or probation not to exceed three years or any combination of such fine and imprisonment, and probation in the discretion of the City magistrate. Each day any violation of any provisions of this Code or of any ordinance 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 ordinance 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 1962, § 1-5; Ord. No. G-1864, § 1; Ord. No. G-2578, § 1; Ord. No. G-2753, § 1; Ord. No. G-3270, § 1)