Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 2.200 Los Angeles County Child Support Compliance Program

The board of supervisors finds that compliance with court-ordered child, family, or spousal obligations is in the public interest and benefits all residents of the county of Los Angeles. Unpaid support obligations have required the county and its taxpayers to protect the public health and welfare by providing a large array of social, medical and other services for the benefit of children and families to whom these support obligations are owed and to bear the cost of maintaining one of the largest support enforcement systems in the United States.

Therefore, the board of supervisors establishes the goal of ensuring that individuals who benefit financially from the county through employment or contracts are in compliance with their court-ordered child, family, and spousal support obligations in order to mitigate the economic burden otherwise imposed upon the county and its taxpayers.

(Ord. 2004-0017 § 1, 2004: Ord. 97-0072 § 1 (part), 1997.)

All new and renewed contracts shall contain language which (a) requires the contractor to fully comply with all applicable state and federal reporting requirements relating to employment reporting for its employees; (b) requires the contractor to fully comply with all lawfully served wage and earnings assignment orders and notices of assignment; (c) provides that failure to comply with state and federal reporting requirements regarding employees, or failure to implement lawfully served wage and earnings assignment orders or notices of assignment, constitutes a default under the contract, and failure to cure the default within 90 days of notice by the county shall subject the contract to termination; and (d) informs the contractor that failure to comply with these requirements may be cause for debarment.

(Ord. 2004-0017 § 2, 2004: Ord. 97-0072 § 1 (part), 1997.)

Upon request by the child support services department, the treasurer and tax collector is directed to report business licensee information to the child support services department not less than quarterly.

(Ord. 2004-0017 § 3, 2004: Ord. 97-0072 § 1 (part), 1997.)

This chapter shall not apply to contracts with a total value of less than $5,000.

(Ord. 2004-0017 § 4, 2004: Ord. 97-0072 § 1 (part), 1997.)