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ORDINANCE SETTING THE PROCEDURE FOR COLLECTION OF FINES
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Whenever in the Police Court any fine or penalty shall be imposed upon any person for the violation of any City Ordinance, and such fine or penalty, and costs shall not be paid or secured forthwith or an appeal taken, the Police Judge shall issue and execution for such fine or penalty and costs, and directed to the Chief of Police, who shall proceed thereunder by levy and sale, as provided for the collection of fines and penalties in the Circuit Court in this state.
Whenever any fine or penalty shall be imposed upon any person in the Police Court, the Police Judge shall forthwith order such person into the custody of the Chief of Police until the payment of such fin or penalty and costs, or until the same shall be secured or an appeal taken, and if thereafter the Chief of Police shall allow such person to go at large before the payment of such fine or penalty and costs, or giving of such security or taking such appeal, such Chief of Police or Deputy be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than Five or more than Twenty-five Dollars, and each day said convicted person shall be so unlawfully permitted to go at large shall constitute a separate offense against said Chief of Police, provided that the Police Judge may in his discretion suspend any sentence imposed by him without a jury, and in such case the Chief of Police shall not be liable, as provided in this ordinance, during the time that such sentence is suspended, provided, further that the taking of such security or release of such prisoner without payment of such fine or penalty and costs, or taking of such security or an appeal being taken, shall render the Chief of Police liable upon his official bond for such fine or penalty and costs.
Passed and adopted this July 2, 1895.