§ 20-176.10. Penalties.

(1)

Any person who violates a cease and desist order of the board, while such order is in effect, shall forfeit and pay to the Broward County board of county commissioners a civil penalty determined by the consumer protection board which shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00). The civil penalty may be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of Broward County by the office of county attorney or the state attorney. Each separate violation of such an order shall be a separate offense; and, in the case of a violation through continuing failure or neglect to obey a final order of the board, each day of continuance of such failure or neglect shall be deemed a separate offense.

(2)

Any person who has an occupational license revoked shall pay, in addition to the fee established for such license, an administrative fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the board of county commissioners before such person's occupational license may be reissued.

(3)

Any person who has an occupational license revoked shall pay an administrative fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to the Broward County board of county commissioners before such person's occupational license may be reinstated.

(4)

Each violation and each separate day a violation of this division or the Broward County Consumer Protect Code continues shall be considered a separate and distinct offense.

(5)

Any party to an action pending before the board who shall fail to comply with a discovery order of the board shall forfeit and pay to the Broward County board of county commissioners a civil penalty determined by the consumer protection board which shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00). The penalty shall accrue and be collected in the same manner provided in subsection (1) of this section.

(6)

Violation of this division shall be prosecuted in the same manner as misdemeanors are prosecuted. Such violations shall be prosecuted in the name of the state in a court having jurisdiction of misdemeanors by the prosecuting attorney thereof, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed sixty (60) days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. No. 81-77, § 28, 8-11-81; Ord. No. 90-16, § 15, 7-10-90)