3-38-19: Penalties.

The governing body of the municipality or county shall, by ordinance, provide for penalties by creating a misdemeanor and imposing a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment for not more than ninety days or both for a violation by any person of the provisions of the occupancy tax ordinance for a failure to pay the tax, to remit the proceeds thereof to the municipality or county or to account properly for any lodging and the tax proceeds pertaining thereto.