Any person violating a local law, ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to this
Charter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, except that an ordinance may provide that
a violation thereof shall be an offense or infraction, and the common council may
within any such local law or ordinance, or by general ordinance, provide that any
person guilty of such violation shall be liable to a fine which shall not exceed two
thousand dollars ($2,000.00) in amount, or imprisonment not exceeding one hundred
fifty (150) days, or both such fine and imprisonment, or such local law, ordinance
or regulation may provide for a civil penalty not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00)
to be recovered by the city in a civil action or other lawful method set forth in
the local law, ordinance or regulation. The city may maintain an action or special
proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction to compel compliance with or to restrain
by injunction the violation of, any ordinance of the city or any provision of the
building code, sanitary code, or of the zoning regulations or ordinances, notwithstanding
that the local law or ordinance may provide a penalty for such violation.
