HomeMy Public PortalAbout1978_09_27_O031 TOWN OF LEESBURG
IN
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA
PRESENTED September 27, 1978
ORDINANCE NO. 78-0-31
AN ORDINANCE:
ADOPTED September 27, 1978
AMENDING SECTIO5~i-13 AND 11-1 OF THE TOWN CODE
REGARDING MISDEMEANOR PENALTIES
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg,
Virginia, as follows:
SECTION I. Section 1-13 of the Town Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1-13. General penalty; continuing violations.
Wherever in this Code, or in any ordinance or
resolution of the municipality, or rule or regula-
tion or order promulgated by any officer or agency
of the municipality under authority duly vested in
him or it, any act is prohibited or is 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, and no specific penalty is provided
for the violation thereof, the violation of any
such provision of this Code or any such ordinance,
resolution, rule, regulation or order shall be
punished as if guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, as
defined in Section 18.2-11 of the Code of Virginia
(1950); provided, however, that such penalty shall
not exceed the penalty prescribed by the Code of
Virginia for a like offense. Each day any viola-
tion of this Code, or any such ordinance, resolution,
rule, regulation, or other, continues shall consti-
tute a separate offense.
SECTION II. Section 11-1 of the Town Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 11-1. Attempts to commit misdemeanor.
Every person who, within the jurisdiction of the
municipality, attempts to commit an offense which is
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a misdemeanor shall be punishable by the same punish-
ment prescribed for the offense, the commission of
which was the object of the attempt.
SECTION III. This ordinance shall be effective upon its
passage.
PASSED this 27th
day of September
, 1978.
ATTEST:
Kenneth B. Rollins, Mayor
Town of Leesburg
Clerk of/ouncil