CODE OF VIRGINIA

PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES (§ 15.2-1429)

Any locality may prescribe fines and other punishments for violations of
ordinances, which shall be enforced by proceedings as if such violations were
misdemeanors. However, no fine or term of confinement for the violation of
ordinances shall exceed the penalties provided by general law for the violation
of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and such penalties shall not exceed those penalties
prescribed by general law for like offenses.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 15-8, 15-77.64; 1954, c. 529; 1956, cc. 218, 664; 1956,
Ex. Sess., c. 40; 1958, cc. 279, 328; 1960, c. 606; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-505,
15.1-901; 1974, c. 598; 1976, c. 582; 1978, c. 150; 1991, cc. 25, 609, 710;
1997, c. 587.