<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 1-6. - General penalty.</div>
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               (a)
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               Any person violating or failing, refusing or neglecting to comply with any provision
               or requirement of any section or subsection of this Code, or any ordinance of this
               county now in force or hereafter enacted, to which no specific penalty is affixed,
               shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor and be punished in accordance with G.S. 15A-1340.23
               and/or be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 for each offense.
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               (b)
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               Any ordinance in this Code may be enforced by an appropriate legal remedy issuing
               from a court of competent jurisdiction. It shall not be a defense to the application
               of the county for equitable relief that there is an adequate remedy at law.
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               (c)
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               Each day that any breach or violation of or any failure to comply with any provision
               or requirement of any section or subsection of this Code or any ordinance of this
               county now in force or hereafter enacted continues, or is allowed to continue, shall
               constitute a separate and distinct offense; but nothing contained in this section
               or this Code shall be construed to relieve, or shall have the effect of relieving,
               any offender of any fine, imprisonment or penalty for repeated violations on any one
               day of any ordinance now in force or hereafter enacted, or any section or subsection
               of this Code.
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               (Ord. of 8-26-96, Â§ 1)
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            <p class="refstatelaw0" block_type="hang"><b>State Law referenceâ€” </b>
               Violations of county ordinances deemed misdemeanors, G.S. 14-4; prescribing alternate
               methods for enforcement of ordinances and authorizing the making of each day's continuing
               violation a separate offense, G.S. 153A-123; injunction, G.S. 1-485 et seq.
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