Sutter County Municipal Code Ch. 925 Deposit of Materials on County Roads and Loading and Unloading of Vehicles

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or partnership to deposit or cause to be deposited, or leave or allow to remain, any peach boxes, materials, equipment or debris upon a county road or the right-of-way of any county road when such action will create a potential traffic or other hazard or impede the routine maintenance of said road or right-of-way of said road, or in any way damage said county road or right-of-way of said county road.

(Ord. 708, Sec. 1; Mar. 7, 1978)

It shall be unlawful to disc, cultivate, irrigate or allow water to flow onto or cause to disc, cultivate, irrigate, or allow water to flow onto a county road or right-of-way of a county road.

It shall be unlawful to disc, irrigate, or cultivate near a county road or right-of-way of a county road so as to deposit, cause to be deposited, or allowed to be deposited, water, soil, rock, or any debris upon a county road or right-of-way of a county road.

Whenever disc furrows, irrigation levees, or irrigation water are found on a county road or right-of-way of a county road adjacent to private real property, the owners of that private real property or, in the event said property is leased for agricultural purposes, the agricultural lessees of such real property shall be presumed to have caused the discing, or the soil of the levee to be deposited, or the irrigation water to be deposited on said county road of right-of-way of a county road. This presumption shall affect the burden of proof.

(Ord. 688, Sec. 1; May 24, 1977)

Any violation of this Chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor. Upon the conviction of a violation of this Chapter, the person so convicted shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00), or more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), and if such fine be not paid, shall be imprisoned in the County Jail of Sutter County for a period of one day for each thirty dollars ($30.00) of such fine.

(Ord. 680, Sec. 2; Mar. 29, 1977)

If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter which is reasonably separable from the remaining portion of this Chapter is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this Chapter, it being herein expressly declared that this Chapter and each section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause and phrase thereof would have been adopted irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.

(Ord. 191, Sec. 6; Aug. 3, 1953)