Yuba County Municipal Code Ch. 2.107 Discrimination in the Use of County Facilities

The purpose of this Chapter is to effectively prohibit the denial of the use of County-owned or leased facilities in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

(Prior Code, § 2.107.010; Ord. No. 645)

No person, firm, corporation or entity shall deny any person the right to use, benefit from or participate in programs located in or using public facilities owned, leased or operated by this County, or by its contractors, subcontractors, lessees, concessionaires or other authorized operators, because of ancestry, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, race, creed, color, sex or national origin.

(Prior Code, § 2.107.020; Ord. No. 645)

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Government Code § 54961.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not $1,000.00 or both. Each separate day during which any violation occurs is a separate offense.

(Prior Code, § 2.107.030; Ord. No. 645)

State Law reference— Penalties for ordinance violations, Government Code § 25132, Penal Code § 19.

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, provision or portion of this Chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions or provisions of this Chapter or their applicability to distinguishable situations or circumstances. In enacting this Chapter, it is the desire of the Board of Supervisors to validly regulate to the full measure of its legal authority in the public interest, and to that end, the Board of Supervisors declares that it would have adopted this Chapter and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, provision, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof might be declared invalid or unconstitutional in whole or in part, as applied to any particular situation or circumstances, and to this end the provisions of this Chapter are intended to be severable.

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Government Code § 23.