Chapter 15.44
VIOLATION – PENALTIES

Sections:

15.44.010    Violation – Penalties.

15.44.010 Violation – Penalties.

A. No person shall violate any provision, or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this title or of the codes adopted by reference in this title. Unless a different penalty is prescribed for violation of a specific provision of this title, or of the codes adopted hereby, every act prohibited or declared unlawful and every failure to perform an act made mandatory by this title, or the codes hereby adopted, is punishable as a misdemeanor. Where the city attorney determines that such action would be in the interest of justice, the city attorney may specify in the accusatory pleading that the offense shall be an infraction. Each person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of this title, or of the codes adopted hereby, is committed, continued, or permitted by such person and shall be punishable accordingly.

B. In addition to the penalties provided in this section, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this title, or the codes hereby adopted, shall constitute a public nuisance and may be abated by the city as provided in Chapter 8.28 HMC by civil process, by means of a restraining order, preliminary or permanent injunction, or in any manner provided by law for the abatement of such nuisance.

C. All remedies herein are stated to be cumulative and nonexclusive.

D. In accordance with HMC 1.24.050, the city, if it is the prevailing party in any proceedings conducted pursuant to this chapter and associated with the abatement of a nuisance, shall be entitled to recovery of attorneys’ fees incurred in any such proceeding. (Ord. 438 § 11, 2019)