Butte County Municipal Code Art. II Board of Supervisors

The County of Butte is hereby divided into five supervisorial districts, the boundaries of which shall be and remain as they now are until otherwise changed, as provided in this Charter.

The County of Butte shall have a board of supervisors, consisting of five members, each of whom must be an elector of the supervisorial district which he represents, must reside therein during his incumbency, must have been a resident of the county for five years immediately preceding his election, and shall be elected by the electors of the district which he is to represent. The term of office of supervisors shall be four years, and until their success-sors are elected and qualify, except as hereinafter provided.

Editor's note—"The five year residency requirement in this section was declared unconstitutional by the California Supreme Court in the case of Zeilengo v. Nelson (1971) 4 Cal. 3d 716; 94 Cal. Rptr. 602; 484 P. 2d 578. Now see Government Code Section 25041."

At the general election to be held in November, 1918, supervisors shall be elected from the second and fifth supervisorial districts, whose terms of office shall begin at noon on the first Monday after the first day of January, 1919, and shall end at noon on the first Monday after the first day of January, 1921.

The board of supervisors must by ordinance during the year 1919, and between the first day of January and the first day of July thereof, redistrict the County of Butte into five supervisorial districts as nearly equal in population as may be possible. The redistricting ordinance shall take effect on the first Monday after the first day of January, 1921, at noon; except that, for the purpose named in section 5 of this article, it shall take effect on the first day of August, 1919.

At the general election to be held in November 1920, supervisors shall be elected in each of the five supervisorial districts as established by the ordinance in section 4 hereof provided for. The five supervisors so elected shall take office at noon on the first Monday after the first day of January, 1921. Immediately upon their qualification they shall so classify themselves by lot that three of their number shall hold office for four years, and two of their number for two years, and the supervisors elected at the election held in 1922 and every two years thereafter shall hold office for four years.

After the year 1921, whenever it appears from the United States census that the population in any supervisorial district exceeds or lacks more than twenty-three percent as compared with the population in another district or districts, then the board of supervisors shall change the boundaries of such district or districts so that the population of each district shall be so nearly equal as possible. Any changes in the boundaries of any district must be made in accordance with general law.

(Ord. No. 1113, § 1(a)1, 9-1-70, ratified 11-3-70)

Whenever a vacancy occurs in the board of supervisors, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, and the appointee shall hold office until the election and qualification of his successor. Such election shall take place at the next general election at which county officers are elected. The person elected shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term.

The board of supervisors shall at its first meeting in January of each year, elect a chairman who shall preside at all meetings. In case of his absence or inability to act, the members present must by an order entered of record select one of their number to act as chairman pro tempore. Any member of the board of supervisors may administer oaths when necessary in the performance of his official duties. A majority shall constitute a quorum, and no act of the board shall be valid or binding unless three members concur thereon, except as otherwise required by law.

(Ord. No. 1113, § 1(a)2, 9-1-70, ratified 11-3-70)