Whenever any organization has been found guilty of a general offense or infraction, the court shall make one or more of the following dispositions of the organization in any appropriate combination. 1.12.080 Commencement of prosecution Time limitation. 1.12.090 Commencement of prosecution Expiration of time period. 1.12.100 Determination of commencement of offense and prosecution. An offense is committed either when every element occurs, or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated.
Time starts to run on the day after the offense is committed.
B. A prosecution is commenced when an information is filed. 1.12.110 Inapplicability of period of limitation. 1.12.120 Retroactivity of provisions. Such an offense must be construed and punished according to the provisions of law existing at the time of the commission thereof in the same manner as if the ordinance codified in Sections 1.12.020 through 1.12.130 had not been enacted. Return to Top of Charter, Code, and Ordinances .