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ORDINANCE NO. 2002 - 49
ABANDONED VEHICLES
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical footnotes
from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code):
SECTION I. SUMMARY. This ordinance revises Section 430.2.004 of the County Ordinance
Cade, and repeals Section 430-4.008 of the County Ordinance Code, for purposes of consistency
with Chapter 10 of Division 11 of the California Vehicle Code and to clarify that the Sheriff is
authorized to abate abandoned,wrecked, dismantled,or inoperative vehicles from private or public
property, including streets,highways and private roads.
SECTION II. Section 430-2.004 of the County Ordinance Code is revised to read.
430-2.004 Authority, findings,nuisance, regulation.
(a) Authority. This division is enacted pursuant to California Vehicle Code Sections 22660,
22661, 22662, 22663 and 22671, and Government Code Section 25845.
(b) Findings. The board finds and declares that the accumulation and storage of abandoned,
wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof on private and public property,
including streets, highways and private roads,creates a condition tending to reduce the value of
private property, to promote blight and deterioration, to invite plundering,to create fire hazards,
to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to
create a harborage for rodents and insects, and to be injurious to the public health, safety and
general welfare.
(c) Nuisance. The presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled, or inoperative vehicle or
parts thereof, on private or public property, including streets,highways and private roads,
except as expressly hereinafter permitted,constitutes a public nuisance that may be abated as
such in accordance with the provisions of this division and code.
(d) This division is not the exclusive regulation of abandoned,wrecked, dismantled or inoperative
vehicles within the unincorporated area of the county. It supplements and is in addition to the
other regulatory codes, statutes and ordinances enacted by the county, the state,or any other
legal entity or agency having jurisdiction. (Ords. 2402-49 § 2, 86-58 § 2, 84-64 § 1, 77-112.)
SECTION III. Section 430-4.008 of the County Ordinance Code is repealed in its entirety.
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SECTION IV. EFFECTIVE BATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage, and
within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors voting for or against
it in the Contra Costa Times, a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED on by the following vote:
AYES: SUPERVISORS UILKEMA, GERBER,
DESAULNIER, GLOVER and GIOIA
NOES: None
ABSENT: None `>
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: JOHN SWEETEN,
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors TatU, Chair
and County Administrator
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