Chapter 1 — ADOPTION OF CODE

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

Except as otherwise herein or hereafter provided, this Code consists of all the regulatory, penal and administrative laws of general application of the County of Siskiyou, codified pursuant to the authority contained in Section 50022.2 of the Government Code of the State of California.

Article XI of the California Constitution provides that counties are legal subdivisions of the State of California, and the County of Siskiyou is therefore required to recognize and does recognize all protections and rights guaranteed to the people by the California Constitution. Pursuant to Section 7 of Article XI, a county may make and enforce within its boundaries all local, police, sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with the general laws of the State of California, and all provisions of this Code have been enacted in accordance therewith.

The United States Supreme Court has determined that provisions of the United States Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, have been incorporated to apply to state and local governments by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The County of Siskiyou is required to recognize and does recognize all such incorporated rights and protections guaranteed to the people by the United States Constitution.

(Ord. No. 15-02, § I, 4-7-2015)

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

Neither the adoption of this Code nor the repeal thereby of any ordinance of the County shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date of the Code, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or penalty at said 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 thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance, and all vested rights and obligations thereunder appertaining 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 be construed to apply to the corresponding provisions contained within 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 hereby declares that it would have passed this Code and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

All ordinances or portions of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this Code are hereby repealed.

Not less than three (3) copies of this Code shall be filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the County Clerk. At least three (3) additional copies, 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 and divisions of the County as shall be prescribed by the County Administrator.

Upon the adoption of any amendment or addition to said Code, or upon the repeal of any of its provisions, the County Clerk shall certify thereto and shall make an appropriate notation in the official volumes of said Code of the taking of such action, noting thereon the number and date of the ordinance pursuant to which such action is taken.

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

At least annually the County Clerk shall cause the loose-leaf pages of said Code in which changes have been made to be reproduced, including the notation as to the ordinance number and date pursuant to which such change is effective, and distributed in order that the loose-leaf copies of such 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.