City of Seattle v. Oliver

Citations

• 78 Wash. 586
• 139 P. 626
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1066

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — Ordinances — Amendment. Upon the amendment of a section of an ordinance fixing the penalty for the violation of the ordinance, the amendment becomes a part of the ordinance, and is substituted for the section amended.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Punishment—Police Justice — Violation oe Ordinance — Penalty. By Rem. & Bal. Code, § 7521, providing that, for the violation of a criminal ordinance, no greater punishment shall be imposed than a fine of one hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, it was the intent to authorize police justices to both fine and imprison for the violation of city ordinances providing therefor; hence an ordinance may provide for both fine and imprisonment.</p>