Any person, copartnership or corporation violating any of the provisions of this article,¹ shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), in any court having competent jurisdiction in the county in which the act shall have been committed or omitted, or by being imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The amount of said penalty, when collected, shall be paid, one-half ( ½ ) into the public road fund, of the county in which said suit shall have been brought, and one-half ( ½ ) to the informer in said action.