Plumas County Municipal Code Ch. 1 Adoption of Code

This Code shall be known as the "Plumas County Code". It shall be sufficient to refer to this Code as the Plumas County Code in any prosecution for the violation of any provision of this Code. It shall also be sufficient to designate any ordinance adding to, amending, or repealing the provisions of this Code as an addition or amendment to, or a repeal of, the Plumas County Code, or a portion thereof.

Except as otherwise provided in this Code, this Code consists of all the regulatory, penal, and administrative laws of general application of the County of Plumas, codified pursuant to the authority set forth in Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code of the State of California.

The provisions of this Code shall take effect upon the effective date of the ordinance adopting this Code by reference.

All the provisions of this Code and all County ordinances shall be interpreted to refer to the appropriate or designated officer or office of the County, and whenever an ordinance, uniform code, statute, or other matter which is adopted by reference refers to any department, officer, employee, inspection, police, or other function, unless the context requires otherwise, all such references shall be to the appropriate or designated office, officer, department, agency, employee, or function of the County.

Neither the adoption of this Code nor the repeal of any ordinance of the County by this Code shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date of this Code, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or penalty on such effective date due and unpaid under such ordinances, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such ordinances relating to the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation of such ordinances, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit required to be posted, filed, or deposited pursuant to any ordinance, and all vested rights and obligations pertaining to such ordinances shall continue in full force and effect.

The provisions of this Code shall not in any manner affect deposits or other matters of record which refer to, or are otherwise connected with, ordinances which are therein specifically designated by number or otherwise and which are included within this Code, but such references shall apply to the corresponding provisions set forth in this Code.

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Code is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Code. The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have adopted this Code and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, and phrase of this Code irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

All ordinances of the County in force and effect upon the effective date of this Code are hereby repealed except as follows:

(a) Ordinances relating to matters of a special or temporary nature, which ordinances are listed in Table 3 of the Appendix to this Code; and

(b) Ordinances of a general nature which have not been codified but are to remain in effect pending their revision or repeal, which ordinances are listed in Table 4 of the Appendix to this Code.

(c) In addition to the foregoing, Ordinance Nos. 757 through 788 shall remain in full force and effect pending their codification and incorporation in the 1973 Code.

At least three (3) copies of this Code, duly certified by the County Clerk, shall be maintained on file in his office as the official copies of the Code. Additional copies of the Code shall be distributed to the departments of the County as shall be prescribed by the County Clerk.

Duly certified copies of each ordinance making a change in this Code shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk in books for such purpose, duly indexed for ready reference.

At least semiannually the County Clerk shall cause the loose leaf pages of this Code in which changes have been made to be reproduced, including a notation as to the ordinance number and the date pursuant to which such change is adopted, and distributed in order that the loose leaf copies of the Code, prepared for the use and convenience of the officers and employees of the County and the general public, may be brought up-to-date.