SECTIONS 25120-25132 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 25120-25132

25120. The enacting clause of all ordinances of the board of
supervisors shall be as follows: "The Board of Supervisors of the
County of ____ ordains as follows."

25121. Every ordinance shall be signed by the chairman of the board
and attested by the clerk.

25122. On the passage of all ordinances the votes of the several
members of the board shall be entered on the minutes, and all
ordinances shall be entered at length in the ordinance book.

25123. All ordinances shall become effective 30 days from the date
of final passage, except the following ordinances, which shall take
effect immediately:
(a) Those calling or otherwise relating to an election.
(b) Those specifically required by this code or by any other law
to take immediate effect.
(c) Those fixing the amount of money to be raised by taxation, or
the rate of taxes to be levied.
(d) Those for the immediate preservation of the public peace,
health, or safety, which shall contain a declaration of the facts
constituting the urgency, and shall be passed by a four-fifths vote
of the board of supervisors.
(e) Those specifically relating to the adoption or implementation
of a memorandum of understanding with an employee organization.
(f) Those relating to salaries and other compensation of officers,
other than elected officers, and employees.

25123.5. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 25123, that
portion of any ordinance which changes supervisorial salaries shall
become effective 60 days after its adoption.

25124. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), before the
expiration of 15 days after the passage of an ordinance it shall be
published once, with the names of the members voting for and against
the ordinance, in a newspaper published in the county if there is
one, and if there is no newspaper published in the county, the
ordinance shall be posted in a prominent location at the board of
supervisors' chambers within the 15-day period and remain posted
thereafter for at least one week. The local agency, at its option,
may include in an ordinance reclassifying land either a brief
description accompanied by a map of the boundaries of the property,
as recited in the notice of hearing, or a complete metes and bounds
description accompanied by a map depicting the reclassified property
and adjacent properties. Except for maps, any exhibit attached to and
incorporated by reference in an ordinance need not be published in
its entirety if the publication lists all those exhibits by title or
description and includes a notation that a complete copy of each
exhibit is on file with the clerk of the board of supervisors and is
available for public inspection and copying in that office in
accordance with the California Public Records Act, Chapter 3.5
(commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1. A
certificate of the clerk of the board of supervisors or order entered
in the minutes of the board that the ordinance has been duly
published or posted is prima facie proof of the publication or
posting.
(b) The publication or posting of ordinances, as required by
subdivision (a), may be satisfied by either of the following actions:
(1) The county board of supervisors may publish a summary of a
proposed ordinance or proposed amendment to an existing ordinance.
The summary shall be prepared by an official designated by the board
of supervisors. A summary shall be published and a certified copy of
the full text of the proposed ordinance or proposed amendment shall
be posted in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors at
least five days prior to the board of supervisors meeting at which
the proposed ordinance or amendment or alteration thereto is to be
adopted. Within 15 days after adoption of the ordinance or amendment,
the board of supervisors shall publish a summary of the ordinance or
amendment with the names of those supervisors voting for and against
the ordinance or amendment and the clerk shall post in the office of
the clerk of the board of supervisors a certified copy of the full
text of the adopted ordinance or amendment along with the names of
those supervisors voting for and against the ordinance or amendment.
(2) If the county official designated by the board of supervisors
determines that it is not feasible to prepare a fair and adequate
summary of the proposed or adopted ordinance or amendment, and if the
board of supervisors so orders, a display advertisement of at least
one-quarter of a page in a newspaper of general circulation in the
county shall be published at least five days prior to the board of
supervisors meeting at which the proposed ordinance or amendment or
alteration thereto is to be adopted. Within 15 days after adoption of
the ordinance or amendment, a display advertisement of at least
one-quarter of a page shall be published. The advertisement shall
indicate the general nature of, and provide information about, the
proposed or adopted ordinance or amendment, including information
sufficient to enable the public to obtain copies of the complete text
of such ordinance or amendment, and the names of those supervisors
voting for and against the ordinance or amendment.
(c) If the clerk of the board of supervisors fails to publish an
ordinance within 15 days after the date of adoption, the ordinance
shall not take effect until 30 days after the date of publication.

25125. No county ordinance passed prior to September 13, 1941, is
void solely by reason of the fact that it was not published for a
full week within 15 days after its passage, if the first actual
publication of the ordinance was within the 15-day period, and
thereafter actual publication was made for a full week.

25126. Any or all ordinances of any county which have been enacted
and published in accordance with the provisions of its charter or
this article, and which have not been repealed, may be compiled,
consolidated, revised, indexed, including such restatement and
substantive change as is necessary in the interest of clarity, and
arranged as a comprehensive ordinance code.

25127. The ordinance code may be adopted by reference by the
passage of an ordinance for the purpose, which shall be adopted and
approved in the manner provided by charter or this article for the
passage of ordinances for the county.

25128. The ordinance code itself need not be published in the
manner required for other ordinances, but not less than three copies
of the code shall be filed for use and examination by the public in
the office of the clerk of the county prior to the adoption thereof.

25129. After the code has been adopted all ordinances thereafter
adopted pertaining to the subjects in the code shall be amendatory or
revisory of the code. No section or subsection of the code shall be
revised or amended by reference. The ordinance section or subsection
revised or amended shall be adopted and published in the manner
prescribed in Section 25124. Nothing in this section shall preclude
repealing or rendering inoperative by reference any section or
subsection if language in the ordinance fairly identifies the subject
matter of the sections or subsections which would be repealed or
rendered inoperative by the ordinance.

25130. An ordinance code adopted and fully published, or adopted by
reference as provided in this article, may be subsequently
recompiled, recodified and indexed, including such restatement and
substantive change as is necessary in the interest of clarity, in the
same manner as prescribed by this article for the original adoption
by reference of an ordinance code.

25131. Ordinances shall not be passed within five days of their
introduction, nor at other than a regular meeting or at an adjourned
regular meeting. However, an urgency ordinance may be passed
immediately upon introduction and either at a regular or special
meeting. Except when, after reading the title, further reading is
waived by regular motion adopted by majority vote, all ordinances
shall be read in full either at the time of introduction or passage.
When ordinances, other than urgency ordinances, are altered after
introduction, they shall be passed only at a regular or at an
adjourned regular meeting held at least five days after alteration.
Corrections of typographical or clerical errors are not alterations
within the meaning of this section. This section shall not apply to
ordinances which by statute can be passed only after notice and a
public hearing.

25132. (a) Violation of a county ordinance is a misdemeanor unless
by ordinance it is made an infraction. The violation of a county
ordinance may be prosecuted by county authorities in the name of the
people of the State of California, or redressed by civil action.
(b) Every violation determined to be an infraction is punishable
by (1) a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for a first
violation; (2) a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200) for a
second violation of the same ordinance within one year; (3) a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) for each additional
violation of the same ordinance within one year.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of
local building and safety codes determined to be an infraction is
punishable by (1) a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) for
a first violation; (2) a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
($500) for a second violation of the same ordinance within one year;
(3) a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each
additional violation of the same ordinance within one year of the
first violation.