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Sec. 118-153. Penalties.

(a) It is declared a misdemeanor for any person to injure, damage, destroy, or fail or refuse to connect with or tap the sewers of the city, within the time prescribed by an order of the board of health, any sewer, public or private, made under the provisions of this article.

(b) Any person so offending, on conviction, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, in any sum not more than $500.00, and for a period not longer than six months.

(c) An offender shall also be liable for all damages which shall be found by the jury. The sum so found, judgment shall be rendered in favor of the city, and execution shall issue on it as on other judgments at law.

(d) The city council shall have power, to compel all sewers built by private parties or under the direction of the board of health to be kept clean and in repair, by fine and punishment of the party in possession as owner or lessee of the property where the sewer may be situated. The fine shall not exceed $50.00 for any one neglect, nor shall the imprisonment be more than 90 days.

State law reference(s)--Similar provisions, A.C.A. § 14-235-301.

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