HomeMy WebLinkAbout1597 - Ordinance Violation Constitutes InfractionORDINANCE NO. 1597
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
AMENDING SECTION 1.04.010 OF THE NEWPORT BEACH
MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING SECTION 1.04.050
PROVIDING THAT A VIOLATION OF CERTAIN ORDINANCES
CONSTITUTES AN INFRACTION
• The City Council of the City of Newport Beach DOES
ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1.04.010 of the Newport Beach
Municipal Code is amended in its entirety to read as follows:
"1.04.010 Violation A Misdemeanor - Infraction -
Penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate
any provision or to fail to comply with any requirement
of this Code. Any person violating any of the provisions
or failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements
of this Code shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided,
however, any person violating any of the provisions or
failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements
• of this Code shall be guilty of an infraction if said
act or omission is declared to be an infraction by an
ordinance of this City.
Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under the
provisions of this Code shall be punishable, except where
a different penalty is specifically prescribed, by a fine,
of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by
imprisonment in the City or County Jail for a period not
to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment. Any person convicted of an infraction under the
provisions of this Code shall be punishable by (1) a
fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for a first
violation; (2) a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars
($100.00) for a second violation of the same ordinance
within one (1) year; (3) a fine not exceeding Two Hundred
Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for each additional violation of
the same ordinance within one (1) year.
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Each such person shall be guilty of a separate
offense for each and every day during any portion of which
any violation of any provision of this Code is committed,
continued or permitted by such person, and shall be
punishable accordingly."
SECTION 2. Section 1.04.050 is added to the Newport
Beach Municipal Code to read as follows:
"1.04.050 Parking Violation - Infraction. Any person
violating any provision of Sections 12.12.010 or 12.12.040,
Chapter 12.40, Chapter 12.44, except Sections 12.44.130
and 12.44.140, or Chapter 12.48 of the Newport Beach Municipal
Code shall be guilty of an infraction."
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be published once in
the official newspaper of the City, and the same shall be
effective thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption.
• This ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of
the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the
13th day of January 1975, and was adopted on the
27th day of January 1975, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: DOstal, Roger--,
Ryckoff, Kuehn, Barrett, Store
NOES, COUNCILMEN:
ABSENT COUNCILMEN: McInnis
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ATTEST:
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CERTIFIED AS THE ORIGINAL AND
CERTIFIED AS TO PUBLICATION
DAT�...FEB 3 1975
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