Tehama Municipal Code Art. III County Officers Other Than

Sec. 1: The County Officers other than Supervisors shall be a Sheriff, a County Clerk, a Treasurer, a Recorder, a License Collector, a Tax Collector, a Public Administrator, a Coroner, a Surveyor, a Road Commissioner, a District Attorney, an Auditor an Assessor, a Superintendent of Schools, an Agricultural Commissioner, a Sealer of Weights and Measures, a County Physician, a Health Officer, a Probation Officer, a Public Guardian, and such others as are or shall be provided for by the Constitution, or by the General Law, or by this Charter. (Amendment passed by voters in general election held November 8, 2005)

Sec. 2: The following County offices are hereby consolidated:

(a) The Public Guardian shall be ex-officio Public Administrator. (Amendment passed by voters in general election held November 8, 2005)

(b) The Clerk shall be ex-officio Recorder.

(d) The County Physician shall be ex-officio County Health Officer.

(e) The Agricultural Commissioner shall be ex-officio Director of Weights and Measures.

(cr. - Sec. 24300 Government Code.) See new amendments.

(f) The county clerk shall be ex-officio clerk of the Board of Supervisors and the clerk shall be responsible for the duties of the clerk of the board as set out in the statutes of the State of California, accurately recording and indexing of the Supervisors' minutes, maintaining the security of mailed and hand-delivered documents sent to the Board of Supervisors for action and processing, assure compliance with the public records act, thus guaranteeing the public their right to view all action taken by the Board of Supervisors, and preserving the official records of the Board of Supervisors for historical knowledge and research. (Amendment passed by voters in general election held November 6, 1984)

Sec. 3:

(a) A Sheriff, a Clerk and ex-officio Recorder, a Treasurer, an Assessor and ex-officio Tax Collector and License Collector, a District Attorney, an Auditor, a Coroner, and a Superintendent of Schools shall be elected as provided by general law.

(b) Notwithstanding the general law or any other provision of this Charter, the Public Guardian and ex-officio Public Administrator shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors and shall serve at their will and pleasure. (Amendment passed by voters in general election held November 8, 2005)

Sec. 4: By ordinance the Board of Supervisors may consolidate the duties of the those offices where consolidation is authorized by the general law. Where offices are consolidated pursuant to the Charter or ordinance the Board by ordinance may elect to separate the duties so consolidated, and reconsolidate them in any other manner permitted by the general law or separate the duties without the reconsolidation, and provide that the duties of each office shall be performed by a separate person. When the duties are united and consolidated, the person elected to fill the united and consolidated offices shall take the oath and give the bond required for each and discharge all the duties pertaining to each. No consolidation or separation shall be effected except upon a 4/5th vote of the Board of Supervisors, after a public hearing held at least 90 days prior thereto, finding the change to be in the public interest. Provided, however, that if the duties of any of the offices specified in Article III, Sec. 3 are separated that each shall thereafter be an elective office; and provided further that no consolidation or separation of elective county offices may be made effective before expiration of the terms provided by law.

Sec. 5: The Sheriff of the County of Tehama shall perform the duties of the Constable in the Judicial District in which the County Seat is situated. (Note: Under General Law Constable is a separate Office.)

Sec. 6: The Road Commissioner shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors for a term of four years. He may be removed from office at any time by the Board of Supervisors for inefficiency, neglect of duty, misconduct in office, or other good cause shown. (Note: Sec. 2006 of the Streets and Highways Code provides that there is no term of office.)

Sec. 7: The Probation Officer shall be appointed, supervised and removed from office in accordance with the general law of the State of California.

(Ord. 664 <1, 1974, adopted by voters on November 5, 1974))