Sec. 1-8. - General penalty; continuing violations.

(a)

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Code or limited or specially prescribed by state statute, whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance or resolution of the town or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the town under authority duly vested in him or it [if] any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any other ordinance or resolution of the town or such rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days and/or restitution in cases involving property damage or personal injury in an amount up to twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) and/or voluntary community service for the town for not more than ten (10) days for any one (1) offense.

(b)

Except where otherwise provided, every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance or resolution of the town or such rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

(Code 1967, § 1-6)

State Law reference— Limitation on penalties for ordinance violations, G.L. 1956, § 45-6-2.