CHAPTER 3
UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICTS

ARTICLE 5. LEGAL ACTION

SECTION:

§3840    Penalty

§3841    Severability

§3840 PENALTY

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance or failing to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which any violation or any of the provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, and shall be punishable therefor as provided for in this ordinance. (Ord. 608, §1, adopted 1972)

§3841 SEVERABILITY

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council hereby declares that it would have adopted the ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid. (Ord. 608, §1, adopted 1972)