§ 1-16. Failure to pay penalty, fine, forfeiture or restitution.

Every person who has been ordered to pay any penalty, fine, forfeiture or restitution by the municipal court for the violation of any provision of this Code or of the city Charter who refuses or neglects to comply with the court's order for payment shall, upon further order of the court, be committed to jail for a period not to exceed three (3) months. Prior to the issuance of such an order for incarceration, the court shall inquire as to whether or not the person failing to pay the penalty, fine, forfeiture or restitution has made all reasonable efforts to make payment, whether the person is indigent, and whether adequate alternative methods of punishing the person are available. Where the person has made all reasonable efforts to pay and the court finds that he has been unable to do so through no fault of his own, the court will also make a finding as to whether or not adequate alternative methods of punishing the individual are available and the court will consider ordering the person to work for some department of the city, after approval of the personnel department of the city, until the penalty, fine, forfeiture or restitution is paid off at the then-current wage for employees of that department normally working in the job that the personnel department has assigned to the person who is subject to the court's order.

(Code 1961, § 1-7)