Richmond Municipal Code Ch. 9.04 General Provisions

The provisions of this article shall be known as the City of Richmond health and safety code.

Any action or proceeding commenced before this Code takes effect, and any right accrued, excepting any operation harmful to the health and safety of persons or property, is not affected by this Code, but all procedure thereafter taken shall conform to the provisions of this Code as far as possible.

Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this Code.

Whenever a power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon a public officer, the power may be exercised or the duty may be performed by a deputy of the officer or by a person authorized, pursuant to law, by the officer, unless this Code expressly provides otherwise.

The present tense includes the past and future tenses; and the future, the present. Each gender includes the other two genders. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

Unless expressly otherwise provided, any notice required to be given to any person by any provision of this Code may be given by mailing notice, postage prepaid, addressed to the person to be notified, at his last known residence or principal place of business in this State. If the owner or agent of the owner, or tenant of any premises cannot be found, such notice may be served by posting a copy of the notice upon the property for a period of ten days and by mailing a copy to the last known address of the owner as shown on the assessment roll of the City. The affidavit of the person who mails the notice, stating the facts of such mailing, is prima facie evidence that the notice was thus mailed and served.

SHALL is mandatory and MAY is permissive.

PERSON means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, or company.

DIRECTOR means "director of public health" as defined in Section 1.04.020 of this Code.

(Amended by Ordinance 348 N.S.)

If any provision of this Code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the remainder of the Code or the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.

(Source: Ordinance No. 1746).

The Director of Public Health of Contra Costa County shall be entitled to charge the City of Richmond for any inspections or abatement proceeding conducted by that office in conjunction with the enforcement of any portion of this article, provided however that the charges for such inspection or abatement proceedings shall be based on an hourly rate representing the actual costs incurred by the director of public health as determined by the Auditor's office of the County of Contra Costa; and in conjunction therewith, the Finance Director of the City of Richmond shall be entitled to take whatever action is necessary, including but not limited to placing a special levy on the property tax roll for the property in question, to recover the actual costs the City of Richmond must pay the director of public health for services rendered, plus the City's administrative costs which shall be based, as determined annually by the finance director, upon the actual expenses incurred by the City in the administration of the pertinent sections of this article. The procedures provided in this chapter are in addition to all other remedies and cost recovery options available to the City by law or in equity, including, but not limited to, those provided in Chapter 1.14 of this Code.

(Added by Ordinance No. 33-81 N.S.

(Ord. No. 26-20 N.S., § VI, 11-10-2020)