§ 15.12.407. Penalties.

Any discharge by a regulated industrial user in excess of such user's MARF in addition to being punishable as a misdemeanor shall be a violation of this section. Any violator of this section shall be subject to civil penalties in the amount of five thousand dollars for the first violation, twenty-five thousand dollars for the second violation and fifty thousand dollars for each violation thereafter. Each day that a violation continues shall be considered as a separate violation for purposes of calculating civil damages pursuant to this section. The cessation of violations for a sixty-day period shall reduce the penalty to that of a "first violation" for any subsequent violation.

(Ords. 20466, 20524.)