(a) Wherever in this Code or in any ordinance of the Town, or rule or regulation promulgated by an officer or agency thereof under the authority invested by law or ordinance, any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or the doing of any act is required, or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of this Code, ordinance, rule or regulation shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00). Every day any violation of this Code or any such ordinance, rule or regulation shall continue shall constitute a separate offense. The fine provided for in this subsection shall be the maximum fine which may be imposed in those cases where another provision provides for a minimum fine but does not provide for a maximum fine.

(b) Except as specifically provided otherwise, no town officer or employee shall be subject to such fine for the failure to do any official act required by the provisions of this Code.