Yuba County Municipal Code Ch. 8.56 Prohibiting Jumping From, and Throwing or Discarding Objects From…

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Editor's note— Ord. No. 1594, § 2, adopted July 14, 2020, amended the title of Ch. 8.56 to read as herein set out. The former Ch. 8.56 title pertained to jumping from county-owned bridges.

The purpose of this Chapter is to protect the public safety in that it is found and determined that jumping from, and throwing or discarding objects from, County-owned bridges and any dam is a hazard and dangerous to the health and safety of the public.

(Prior Code, § 8.56.010; Ord. No. 1252; Ord. No. 1594)

The terms herein are defined as follows:

(1) Bridge means any structure constructed to allow the conducting of water underneath it by canal, creek, river, ditch, flume, or other uncovered appliance for conducting water.

(2) Jump means to dive, leap, spring, bound, parachute, boat, or take any other physical action which results in dropping from a bridge to the land or water body below the bridge or dam.

(3) Dam means a barrier constructed to divert water or hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir.

(4) Throwing means to propel any object with force through the air by a movement of the arm, hand, or any device.

(5) Discarding means any act of disposal or dumping of an object.

(Prior Code, § 8.56.020; Ord. No. 1252; Ord. No. 1594)

It shall be unlawful for any person to jump from, throw, or discard objects from any location on any County-owned bridge or any dam to the land or water below where a sign has been posted by the Community Development and Services Agency's Director of Public Works pursuant to this Chapter prohibiting jumping from, or throwing or discarding objects, from a bridge or dam.

(Prior Code, § 8.56.030; Ord. No. 1252; Ord. No. 1405; Ord. No. 1594)

The Community Development and Services Agency's Director of Public Works is authorized and directed to purchase, construct, and place signs described in Section 8.56.030 upon those bridges and dams within the unincorporated territory of Yuba County, where the Community Development and Services Agency's Director of Public Works finds that jumping from, throwing, or discarding objects from such a bridge or dam is or would be a hazard or otherwise dangerous to the public health or safety.

(Prior Code, § 8.56.040; Ord. No. 1252; Ord. No. 1405; Ord. No. 1594)

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00 or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Prior Code, § 8.56.050; Ord. No. 1252; Ord. No. 1594)

State Law reference— County parks, Public Resources Code § 5150 et seq.

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.

(Ord. No. 1594)

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