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Helena officials propose replacing many criminal ordinance penalties with municipal infractions
Summary
City staff presented a draft ordinance to remove default criminal penalties from most city-code violations and adopt municipal infractions (no jail; capped fines), while retaining criminal penalties for a limited set of serious offenses.
Helena city staff presented a draft ordinance to the commission to repeal the default criminal penalty for many city-code violations and replace it with a municipal-infraction enforcement regime, a move staff said would keep fines but remove jail as a penalty for most routine ordinance breaches.
Matt Peterson (presenting staff) told commissioners that under the current default penalty an ordinance without a specific penalty can carry a $500 fine…
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