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Home My WebLink About1613 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1983/11/21ti r f ORDINANCE NO. 1613 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO MISDEMEANORS; AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 6-105(17), 8-105(4)(d), 9-111, 10-102, 10-106(1), 11-1009(1), 12-101, 12-104(1), 13-1164, 14-230; ADDING SECTION 2-203; DELETING SECTION 11-1009(2) Section 1. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 2-203 to read as follows: Section 2-203. Penalties. Any person who shall violate any provision of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Seven Hundred Dollars ($700) or imprisoned for a period of ninety (90) days or both. Section 2. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 6-105(17) is amended to read as follows: (17) Any person who shall violate any provision of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 3. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 8-105(4)(d) is amended to read as follows: (d) Penalty for Failure to Comply. Any person to whom an order is directed who shall fail to comply with such order within the specified time shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 4. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 9-111 is amended to read as follows: Section 9-111. Damaging Meters Prohibited. No person shall damage or knowingly or negligently permit damage to be done to a water meter on his premises or elsewhere. Any person damaging any such meter or knowingly or negligently permitting the same to be damaged shall pay all costs of making the required repairs to said meters upon demand therefor by the City. Any person damaging any such meter or knowingly permitting the same to be damaged shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 5. The St. Louis park Municipal Code, Section 10-102 amended to read as follows: Section 10-102. Penalty for Violation of Incorporated Statutes. It shall be unlawful and a violation of the requirements of Section 10-101 for any person to violate within the City of St. Louis Park any provision of such statutes adopted by reference herein, and any person upon conviction thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code, except as otherwise provided in the statutes adopted in Section 10-101, in which case the provision set forth in the statutes adopted by reference shall apply. A complaint alleging violation of this ordinance shall allege the appropriate section of the statute herein incorporated as contrary to Section 10-101 of this ordinance. Section 6. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 10-106(1) is amended to read as follows: Section 10-106. Attempts. (1) Whoever, with intent to commit an ordinance violation, does an act which is a substantial step toward, and more than preparation for, the commission of the ordinance violation, is guilty of an attempt to commit that ordinance violation, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 7. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code Section 11-1009(1) is amended to read as follows: Section 11-1009. Enforcement and penalties. (1) Failure or omission to comply with any section of this ordinance shall be deemed a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code and may be so prosecuted. Section 8. Section 11-1009(2) of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code is deleted. Section 9 The St. Louis Park Municipal Code Section 12-101 is amended to read as follows: Section 12-101. Penalty. Any person who shall violate any provision of any section or subdivision of this chapter, or -2- who shall fail to comply with any requirement thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 10. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 12-104(1) is amended to read as follows: (1) Whoever, with intent to commit an ordinance violation, does an act which is a substantial step toward, and more than preparation for, the commission of the ordinance violation, is guilty of an attempt to commit that ordinance violation, and is, therefore, guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 11. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 13-1164 is amended to read as follows: Section 13-1164. Penalties. Whoever does any act forbidden by this ordinance or omits or fails to do any act required by this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Each day that a violation exists constitutes a separate and distinct offense. Section 12. The St. Louis Park Municipal Code, Section 14-230 is amended to read as follows: Section 14-230. Violation and Penalty. Any person, firm, corporation, or voluntary association which violates or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor with penalties as defined in Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense. Section 13. The City Clerk is directed to amend any existing language within the St. Louis Park Municipal Code which states the extent of punishment for a misdemeanor and is authorized to replace such language with a reference to Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 14. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect 15 days after its publication. 1983. Adopted by the City Council this 21st day of November -3- REVIEWED FOR ADMINISTRATION: 3208j —4 — APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: /1 .ice07 City if tofney c.. • • • • • • 0 SUN NEWSPAPERS AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION ST. LOUIS PARK SUN (Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO. 1813 AN ORDINANCE RELATED TO MISDEMEANORS AMENDING THE ST LOUIS PARK MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS, 8-105(17), 8-105(4)(d), 9-111, 10-102, , 10-108(1),11-1009(1),12-101,- 12-104(1), 13-1184,14-230, ADDING SECTION 2-203, DELETING SECTION 11-1009(2). Summary,: This ordinance in- creases the maximum misdemeanor penalty fee from 6500 to 8700 , Effective Date• This ordinance shall take effect 15 days after Its publication Adopted by the City Council No- vember 21. 1983 (s) LYLE W HANKS Mayor (the full text of this ordinance is available with the city clerk for in- spection) (Nov 30, 1983) -SLP 924 Excelsior Avenue West Hopkins, Minnnesota State of Minnesota County of Hennepin D K MORTENSON, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has been the vice president and general manager of the newspaper know as The St Louis Park Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows (1) Said newspaper is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least once every week (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisement (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipalities which it purports to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second- class matter in its local post -office (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of St Louis Park, Golden Valley School District No 275 and Robbinsdale School District No 281 in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the City of Hopkins in said county, established and open during its regular business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and maintained by the managing officer of said newspaper or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regula business hours and at which said newspaper is printed (6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society (7) Said newspaper is made available at single or subscription prices to any person, corporation, partnership or other unincorporated association requesting the newspaper and making the applicable payment (8) Said newspaper has complied with all foregoing conditions for at least one year preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned below (9) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter and affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper He further states on oath that the printed Ordinance No. 1 61 3 hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed and published therein in the English language, once each week, for OnP successive weeks that it was first so published on Wed the 30 day of Nov 19 83 and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including the day of 19 and that the following is a printed copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to wit abcdefghiJklmnopgrstuvwxyz Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30 day of NOV 19 83 MERIDEL M. HEDBLOM 1OTARY PUBLIC - MINNESOT1 HENNEPIN COUNTY My commission expires July 2, 1986