<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 1-11. - General penalty; continuing violations.</div>
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               Wherever in this Code or in any ordinance of the county any act is prohibited or is
               made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or wherever in such
               Code or ordinance the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is
               declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty
               is provided therefor the violation of any such provision of this Code or any such
               ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by imprisonment
               for not more than 30 days for each separate violation. Each day any violation of this
               Code or any ordinance shall continue shall constitute a separate offense, unless otherwise
               specified.
               
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                  Violations of county ordinances generally deemed misdemeanors punishable as prescribed
                  above, G.S. 14-4. See also G.S. 153A-123, prescribing alternate methods for enforcement
                  of ordinances and authorizing the making of each day's continuing violation a separate
                  offense; injunction, G.S. 1-485 et seq.; liability of defendant in criminal actions,
                  G.S. 6-47, 6-48.
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