Yolo County Municipal Code Ch. 1 Adoption of Code

This Code shall be known as the “Yolo County Code”. It shall be sufficient to refer to this Code as the Yolo 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 Yolo 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 Yolo, codified pursuant to the authority contained in Article 2 of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 5 of the Government Code of the State of California.

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 hereby 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 this 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 reference 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 of the County in force upon the effective date of this Code are hereby repealed except those ordinances relating to matters of a special or temporary nature (listed in Table 2 of the Appendix of this 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 and divisions of the County as shall be prescribed by the County Executive. 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 quarterly the County Clerk shall cause the loose leaf pages of this Code in which changes have been made to be reproduced, including the notation as to the ordinance number and date pursuant to which 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.