ORDINANCE NO. 1455

AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE FIRST RECODIFICATION OF THE MENDOCINO COUNTY CODE

The Board of Supervisors of the County of Mendocino does hereby ordain as follows:

SECTION 1. TITLE. This ordinance shall be known as the "Mendocino County First Recodification Ordinance."

SECTION 2. INTENT. The intent of the Board of Supervisors in adopting this ordinance is to provide the citizens of the County of Mendocino with an up-to-date, logically organized, and completely indexed ordinance code.

SECTION 3. AUTHORITY. The authority for the Board of Supervisors to adopt this ordinance is set forth in Section 25130 of the California Government Code, which reads as follows:

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.

SECTION 4. HISTORY. The history of ordinance codification in Mendocino County is as follows:

(A) Ordinance Books. Prior to December 19, 1968, all Mendocino County ordinances were uncodified, had been duly published at length, and existed in published form in Ordinance Books filed with the Mendocino County Clerk.

(B) Codification. On December 19, 1968, there went into effect Ordinance 549, which had been adopted on November 19,1968. Ordinance 549 'adopted by reference and compiled, consolidated, and indexed' all of the Mendocino County Ordinances above referred to except for the Bond and Franchise ordinances and except for ordinances enacted by means of an initiative procedure. Ordinance 549 is therefore referred to herein as the 'Mendocino County Codification Ordinance.' The ordinance code thus adopted was referred to as the 'Mendocino County Code' and was published in one volume in a looseleaf binder having the color green. All ordinances adopted by the Board of Supervisors subsequent to Ordinance 549 have been published at length and included as amendments to the Mendocino County Code.

(C) First Recodification. By this ordinance, the Mendocino County Code is being 'subsequently recompiled, recodified, and reindexed.' This ordinance is thus appropriately referred to as the Mendocino County First Recodification Ordinance. This recodification of the Mendocino County Code shall also be referred to as the 'Mendocino County Code,' and shall be published in two volumes in looseleaf binders having, in their first publication, the color burgundy.

SECTION 5. ACT OF RECODIFICATION. There is hereby adopted as the official ordinance code of the County of Mendocino that certain recodification of the existing Mendocino County Code hereinabove referred to, said recodification being published in those two looseleaf volumes which have been accepted for filing by the Board of Supervisors on March 18, 1975, and which are attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference as if fully set forth herein verbatim, to wit: "Mendocino County Code, Volume I" and "Mendocino County Code, Volume II."

SECTION 6. REPEAL. There is hereby repealed all Mendocino County Ordinances previously adopted which are not included in the aforesaid recodification with the exception of all Bond and all Franchise ordinances and with the further exception of all ordinances adopted by initiative.

SECTION 7. BOND AND FRANCHISE ORDINANCES. All bond and Franchise ordinances adopted prior to this recodification of the 'Mendocino County Code' shall be, respectively, consolidated and set forth in a 'Bond Book' and a 'Franchise Book,' each of which shall be kept on file in the office of the Clerk of the County of Mendocino.

SECTION 8. PUBLIC EXAMINATION. At least one copy of the aforesaid two looseleaf volumes, constituting the recodification of the Mendocino County Code, shall be filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the Clerk of the County of Mendocino. The Board hereby finds that at least three (3) copies of said volumes have been so filed for use and examination for at least fifteen (15) days prior to the adoption of this ordinance.

SECTION 9. PLACEMENT IN ORDINANCE CODE. This ordinance shall be placed in the 'Mendocino County Code' immediately after the Foreword. The resolution of the Board of Supervisors adopting the procedure for the updating of the Mendocino County Code shall be placed in the Mendocino County Code immediately after this ordinance.

SECTION 10. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption and shall be published as required by law.

PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Mendocino, State of California, in this 8th day of April, 1975, by the following vote on roll call:

WHEREUPON, the Chairman declared this ordinance passed and adopted and SO ORDERED.

/S/ Burgess Williams Chairman,

Board of Supervisors

ATTEST:

VIOLA N. RICHARDSON Clerk of Said Board

By: /S/Dorothy V. Starks

Deputy Clerk