6-4-302 - Power to enforce ordinances. - Tennessee Statutes

6-4-302. Power to enforce ordinances.

(a)  The city judge may impose fines, costs and forfeitures, and punish by fine for violation of city ordinances.

(b)  The judge may preserve and enforce order in the court and enforce the collection of all fines, costs and forfeitures imposed.

(c)  In default of payment, or good and sufficient security given for the payment of any fines or forfeitures imposed, the judge shall commit the offender to the workhouse or other place provided for this purpose, and to any labor provided by ordinance until the fines or forfeitures are fully paid at the rate set in § 40-24-104. No such imprisonment shall exceed the period of time established in § 40-24-104, for any one (1) offense. Fines may be paid in installments in the manner provided by ordinance. The city judge may remit, with or without condition, fines and costs imposed for violation of any ordinance provision.

[Acts 1991, ch. 154, § 1; 1995, ch. 13, § 5.]