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Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language would be added to the law as it existed <br /> prior to this session of the General Assembly. <br /> Act 341 of the Regular Session <br /> 1 State of Arkansas <br /> 2 87th General Assembly A Bill <br /> 3 Regular Session, 2009 HOUSE BILL 1341 <br /> 4 <br /> 5 By: Representative Moore <br /> 6 <br /> 7 <br /> 8 For An Act To Be Entitled <br /> 9 AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM FINES FOR <br /> 10 VIOLATION OF A MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE; AND FOR OTHER <br /> 11 PURPOSES. <br /> 12 <br /> 13 Subtitle <br /> 14 AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM FINES FOR <br /> 15 VIOLATION OF A MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE. <br /> 16 <br /> 17 <br /> C18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: <br /> 19 <br /> 20 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code § 14-55-504(a) , concerning fines, is amended <br /> 21 to read as follows: <br /> 22 (a) ( 1) Municipal corporations shall not have power to inflict any fine <br /> 23 or penalty, by ordinance or otherwise, to a greater sum than five hundred <br /> 24 dellafs ($5W one thousand dollars ($1,000) for any one (1) specified <br /> 25 offense or violation of a bylaw or ordinance, or double that sum for each <br /> 26 repetition of such offense or violation. <br /> 27 (2) If a thing prohibited or rendered unlawful is, in its <br /> 28 nature, continuous in respect to time, the fine or penalty for allowing the <br /> 29 continuance thereof, in violation of the bylaw or ordinance, shall not exceed <br /> 30 ;A hut;a_„a fifty dell r., ($250) five hundred dollars ($500) for each day <br /> 31 that it may is unlawfully continued. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 APPROVED: 3/10/2009 <br /> 34 <br /> 35 <br /> III II II I II III I II 01-30-200912:08 KLL045 <br />