99-21 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 70 - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE

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� ♦ : ORDINANCE NO. 99-21 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 70 - - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE - BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 70 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is hereby, amended and modified at Section 8 thereof, so that said Section 8, as amended, shall provide as follows: 8. PENALTY. (A) That no person, firm or corporation shall erect, construct, alter, extend, repair, remove, demolish, maintain, operate, use or occupy any structure or equipment regulated by the provisions of this Chapter or of the Code adopted hereby, or by the rules or directives promulgated or notices issued thereunder, or cause the same to be done, contrary to or in conflict with or in violation of any of said provisions, rules, directives or notices, and, except as provided in subsections (B) and (C) hereof, any person, firm or corporation violating or found to be in violation thereof shall upon conviction be fined not more than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense, and each day on which a violation occurs or continues shall be considered a separate offense. (B) When a defendant is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or of the Code adopted hereby or the rules or directives promulgated or notices issued hereunder, as provided in subsection (A) hereof, which violation occurred within 12 months of a prior conviction for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, or of the Code adopted hereby or the rules or directives promulgated or notices issued hereunder, and such charges are separately brought and tried and arise out of a different series of acts or omissions, such defendant shall upon conviction be fined not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense and each day a violation occurs or continues shall be considered a separate offense.