Sec. 7-20.3. Civil sanction.
A. The remedies provided for in this section are cumulative with those provided for in sections 7-5, 7-20, and 7-20.2 of this Code.
B. Any licensee, employee or agent of the licensee, or any other person connected or associated with the licensee as a partner, director, officer, stockholder or manager, or any "person financially interested" as defined in Section 7-3, who violates any provision of this Chapter is subject to a civil sanction as follows:
1. For the first violation, five hundred dollars.
2. For a second violation within a period of one hundred eighty days from the date of any other violation, one thousand dollars.
3. For a third, or subsequent, violation within a period of one hundred eighty days from the dates of any two other violations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
C. For purposes of calculating the enhanced penalty of paragraph B of this section only, violations occurring on the same calendar day are considered as one violation.
D. A violation of this Chapter may be used for enhancement under this section without having been the subject of a separate complaint.
E. The Court shall not suspend any part or all of the imposition or execution of any sanction required by this section below five hundred dollars. (Ord. No. G-3922, § 8, 1996; Ord. No. G-5389, § 24, 2009)