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Code of Maryville
Title 19 Stormwater
Chapter 5 Vegetated Buffer Zone And Stormwater Quality Management
Title 19 Stormwater
Chapter 5 Vegetated Buffer Zone And Stormwater Quality Management
Maryville
Title 19 : Stormwater
Chapter 5 : Vegetated Buffer Zone And Stormwater Quality Management
19-538 : Violations and penalty.
- Any person violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided in the general provisions of the city code. Each day that a continuing violation of this chapter is maintained or permitted to remain shall constitute a separate offense.
- Any person violating the provisions of this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty by the city of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per day for each day of the violation. Each violation shall constitute a separate violation. The city may also recover all damages proximately caused to the city by such violation.
- In assessing the civil penalty, the city may consider:
- The harm done to the public health or the environment;
- Whether the civil penalty imposed will be of substantial economic detriment to the illegal activity;
- The economic benefit gained by the violator;
- The amount of effort put forth by the violator to remedy this violation;
- Any unusual or extraordinary enforcement costs incurred by the municipality;
- The amount of penalty established by ordinance or resolution for specific categories for violations; and
- All equities of the situation which outweigh the benefit of imposing any penalty or damage assessment.
- In addition to the civil penalty in subsection (3) above, the city may recover all damages proximately caused by the violator to the city which may include any reasonable expenses and attorneys fees incurred in investigating, enforcing and/or correcting the violations of this chapter.
- The city may bring legal action to enjoin the continuing violation of this chapter, and the existence of any other remedy in law or equity shall be no defense to any such action.
- The remedies set forth in this section shall be cumulative, not exclusive, and is not to be a defense to any action, civil or criminal, that one (1) or more of the remedies set forth herein has been sought or granted. (1999 Code, § 19-734)
Date Last Updated: 12/22/2025
Codification Date: 06/01/2024
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Andy White
Vice-Mayor - Fred Metz
Council Member - Sarah Herron
Council Member - Tommy Hunt
Council Member - Drew Miles
City Manager - Greg McClain
Assistant City Manager - Kevin Stoltenberg
City Recorder/Financial Services Director - Sherri Phillips
City Attorney - Melanie Davis