§ 1-7. General penalty.

(a)

Wherever in this Code or in any ordinance or resolution of the county, or in any rule, regulation, notice or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the county under authority duly vested in him or it, any act is prohibited or is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, or the doing of any act is required, or the failure, neglect or refusal to do any act is declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, and no specific penalty is provided for the violation thereof, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any such ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, notice or order shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for a period of not more than thirty days in jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(b)

Any person failing to pay, pursuant to any provision of this Code or other ordinance of the county, any account on or before its due date, other than taxes which are provided for in Title 58.1 of the Code of Virginia, shall incur a penalty thereon of ten percent which shall be added to the amount of the account due from such person. No penalty shall be imposed for failure to pay any account if such failure was not in any way the fault of the debtor. Interest at the rate of ten percent annually from the first day following the day such account is due shall be collected upon the principal and penalty of all such accounts. (12-19-13.)

For state law as to authority of board of supervisors to prescribe fines and imprisonment in county jail for violation of ordinances, see Code of Va., § 15.2-1429. As to when summons is to be issued in place of warrant for misdemeanors, see Code of Va., § 19.2-74. As to penalties and interest on delinquent accounts due, see Code of Va., § 15.2-105.