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ORD2NANCE10 251;: .
IN THE BOARD` OF SUPERVISCRS OF CCNTRA COSTA -COUNTY, STATE .OF CALIFORNIA.
AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TO JOHN JEROME, HIS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS,
A LICENSE AND PERMIT FOR A PERIOD OF FIFTY (50) years to PROMOTE
CONDUCT, ,HOLD, MAINTAIN, MANAGE, EXHIBIT, RUN AND OPERATE RACING,
COURSING, AND OTHER TYPES OF SPORTS, EXHIBITS AND EVENTS IN THE
COUNTY"OF CONTRA COSTA, FIXING THE ANNUAL LICENSE FEE THEREFOR,
AND STATING THE OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND ATTENDANT REQUIREMENTS
IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND PURSUANT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
ORDINANCE,NUMBER 248, HERETOFORE ADOPTED AND PASSED BY THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, ON THE 17th DAY OF
MAY, 1937.
The Board of Supervisors of the bounty of Contra Costa,State of California,
do ordain as follows: '
SECTION 1:, John Jerome, his successors and.assigns, are hereby granted
the right, license and privilege for a period of fifty (50) years from the date
of the passage of this ordinance toTengage14n, promote, 66nduct, hold, maintain,
manage, exhibit, run and operate the hereinafter enumerated raoes, contests,
exhibits, games and sports events on the hereinafter described premises and to com—
pensate or remunerate the contestants, exhibitors and/ or the owners of any animals
so used therein.
SECTION II. ' That the said races, oontests, exhibitions, 'games oreports
events•herein licensed and permitted are as follows:
Archery Bicycle Racing
Aeroplane Racing- Basketball
Balloon Races Badminton
Bowling on the Green Curling ,
Chess contests Duck Races.
Hockey Foot Racing
Horseshoe Pitching florae Racing.
La Crosse Handball
Olympic Games. Ice Skating
Prize Fighting Pageant s
'-Shooting Contests Skating
-Ski Jumping Skeet'
Toboggan Contests Tennis
Marathon Racing Automobile Races.
Volley Ball Stook Show
Fairs. Horse Show
Food Show Business Show
Cat Show Boat Racing
Expositions Misc. Fireworks.
Checker Contest Baseball -
Athletic Contests Bowling
Chariot Races. Polo
Canine Racing Swimming
Donkey Baseball Soft Ball BaAeball
Football Steeplechase Racing
Harness Horse Races. Nrestling
HutdIe Races Flower Show
Jai 'Lai (HI—Li) Dog Show
Motorcycle Racing Rodeo. '
Dancing Golf Tournaments.
Soccer
SECTION III
That the hereinabove mentioned premises are particularly described as follows
to wit
A portion of Lot 131, all of Lot 132, a portion of first 133,all of
Lot 134, a portion of Lot 135, 182 and 220, as delineated upon that
certain map entitled "Yap of the San Pablo Rancho, acoompanying '
and forming. a part of the Final Report of the Referees in Partition"
filed March 1, 1894, in the office of the Recorder of the County of
Contra Costa, State of California, described as follows:
COMMENCING at the intersection of the northerly line of Road No. 20
w1th the line dividing lots 135 and .182 as mown on said Map of the
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San Pablo Rancho, thence from said point of commencement, along
A. the northerly line of said road No. 20, as gown on said map and
r3; along the northerly line of that certain 0.11 acre parcel of
land conveyed to the State of California, by Redwood Highlands
Company, Ltd: a corporation, by deed dated July 8, 1932, and
recorded Sept. 8th, 1232, in Vol. 327 of Official Records, page
2196, cords of said ounty North 88�26� West,, a distance of 1698.51
feet' to a point of curvature to the right in the natheely line of
said 0.11 &ore parcel; thence along said curve to the right,
tangent to the last mentioned oourse, and having a radius of 50.00
�' ; feet; through an angle of 930161 a distance of 81.39 feet to a
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,,point on the easterly line of that certain ,1.20 acre parcel '
.'of'land conveyed to the State of -California in the`deed
firstly herein refereed to, (327 Official Records, page 286);
thence along the easterly line of said 1.20 acre parcel
Northerly along the aro of a curve to the right having
a radius of 600.00 feet, and tangent to the last described
curve at the last described point, through an angle of. 11°411
a distance of 122.35 feet; thence continuing along the easterly
.line of said Highway, north 16031130" East, 1082.04 feet;
thence on a curve to the left, having a radius of 5050.00 feet,
' tangent to last described line at the last described point,
northerly a distance of 292.77 feet to-the most northerly
corner of said 1.20 acre parcel, and in the easterly line of
Road No. 3 of the San i'ablo Rancho, hereinbefore referred to;
thence along the easterly line of said Road No. 3 as described
in thepartition of said Rancho San Pablo, Northerly crossing
old State Highway to the most southerly corner of that certain
parcel of land conveyed to F.L.Farish by Redwood Highlands
Company, Ltd. by deed dated October 22, 1930, and recorded
' Nov. 13, 1930, in Vol. 248 o f Official Records, page 4550
Records of said County; thence along the easterly line of
said "Farish Parcel" and along the easterly line of that eettain
0.584 acre parcel of land conveyed to Contra Costa County,
a political Subdivision, by Fred J. Wood and Walter T.Wood,
by deed dated July 24, 1929, and recorded Sept. 21, 1929L in
Vol. 172 of Official Records, page 449, Records of said ounty,
North 33°o41 0" East, 723.48 feet to the most easterly corner
of said 0.584 acre parcel; thence along the northeasterly line
of said 0.584 acre parcel, north 56055 30" West, 17.00 feet.
to 'the most northerly corner of said 0.584 acre parcel; thence
along the northwesterly line of said 0.584 acre parcel, south-
westerly, along the arc of a curve to the left, the center
of which bears North 56055130 N West, 1450.00 feet from the last
mentioned point, a distance of 445.79 feet, more or less, to
the Easterly line of Road No. 3, as shown on said Map of the
San Pablo Rancho; thence along the easterly line of said Road No-3
of said Rancho, North 160271 East, 819.51 feet, more or less, tb an
angle point in said line; thence continuing along the easterly
line of said Road No. 3, North 50471 West, to the southwesterly
corner of that certain 2 02 acre parcel of land conveyed to the
State of California, in U01. 327 of Official Records, at page
286, hereinbefore referred to; thence along the line of saidpareel,
along a curve to the right, from a tangent bearing north 520211
East, with a radius of 25.00 feet, through an angle of 51025145"
for a distance of 22.44 feet to a point' nae south •76013115" East,
' 8.03 feet; thence along a curve to the r , tangpnt to last
mentioned course, with a radius W 367.00 feet, through an angle
of 42016130" for a distance of 271-QP feet to a point on the
westerly line of of the former location of the State Highway,
distant south 56005115" West, 33.00 feet from Station "L" 318
plus 8$.19 P.O.C. on the center line of said former State Highway.
thence along the said westerly line of said former State Highway
from a tangent that bears North 33054145" West, along a curve to
the left frith a radius of 1067 feet; thence through an angle of
2008115" for a distance of 39.81 feet to a point; thence nath
J60031 West, 202.89 feet; thence leaving said line of said former
tate Highway, from a tangent that bears North 67058146" West,
along a curve to the left, with a radius of 433.00 feet, through
an angle of 8014129" for a distance of 62.28 feet to a point;
thence north 760131 15" West, 8.03 feet to a point; thence along
a curve to the right, tangent to last mentioned course, with a
radius of 25.00 feet, through an angle of 90040139" for a distance
of 39.57 feet to a point on a curve concentric with and 70.00 feet
easterly measured radially from Station M 318 plus 84.15 P.O.C.
on the center line of the Relocation Survey of the State Highway
between San Pablo and Carquinez Bridge; thence from a tangent
that bears North 14°87124" East along said curve to the-right,
with a radius of 4930.00 feet, through an angle of 3°36136" for
a distance of 310.62 feet to a point distant south 71°561 east
' 70.00 feet from station M. 321 plus 99.18 P.O.C. of said relocation
survey; thence north 23°15150" East, 348.23 feet to a point on
the northerly line of Lot 220 of said San Pablo Rancho; thence
along the northerly line of said Lot 220, south 60048120" East,
708.53 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe set in an angle point
in the northerly line of said Lot; thence continuing alon
the northerly line of said Lot, south 89021140" East; 145.84
feet to an iron pipe in the northerly line of said lot and in
' the westerly line of that certain 5.17 acre parcel of.land
conveyed to Thomas W. Mulford, by Rene de Toequeville, et ux.
by deed dated October 18, 1897, and recorded October 19, 1897
In Vol. 76 of Deeds, page 435, records of said County, thence
along the westerly line of said parcel, north 10 East 357.72
feet to Station R. 24-44 on the south line of Road No. 24
of the said Rancho; thence along the southerly line of said Road
No. 24, along the northerly line of that certain 5.17 acre parcel
lastly herein referred to and along the natherly line of that
certain parcel of land containing 150.00 acres particularly
described in that certain deed dated September 29, 1934, executed
:by Andrew F.Sherman, et al. to M. Jacobs, and recorded April 17
1935, in Vol. 372 of Official Records, page 350, Records of said
County, south 86°151• East, 649.52 feet; south 82006130" East,
357.09 feet; 6buth 64°40155" East, 258.10 feet; thence south
61026140" East 230.43 feet; south 82014120" East, 3o l.41 feet;
north g7007150" East, 902.98 feet; north 78040120" East, 495.22
feet; thence south 86032120" East, 348.22 ff1eetito the northeasterly
corner of said 150.00 acre parcel; heneasferlyaliff o esnetherly
line of said Road No. 24, along
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150:00 acre parcel, lastly herein referred to-.and along the-easterly
line of the.1.322 acre parcel secondly described in the deed lastly ,
herein referred to, (372 of Official Reoords,.page 350) south-
1035120" (lest, 994.49 feet to the scutheasterly corner of said
1.322 acre parcel; thence along the southerly line of said 1.322
acre parcel, southwesterly to the southeasterly line of the 150.00
acre parcel hereinbefore referred to; thence along the southeasterly
line of said 150.00 acre parcel, south 540 West 969.45 feet; south
110301 East, 514.66 feet; south 470 Weet,-195.00 feet; south 190.00
feet; south 200'Weet, 730.00 feet to the southeasterly Aorner of
said 150,00 acre parcel; thence continuing on the last mentioned
course, south 200 West 13.44 feet to.the northerly line of Lot 132
as shown on the Map of said San Pablo Rancho; thence along the
northerly line of Lots 132nd 131 of said San Pablo Rancho,
south'99059141" East, 495.49 feet; thence south 0001019" West,
1375-73 lest, more or, less to the southerly line of said Lot 131
and in the center line of San Pablo Greek, as shown on said Map
of the San Pablo Rancho; thence along the southerly line of Lots
131, 132, 133 and 134, and the center line of said San Pablo
Creek, as shown on said Map of the can Pablo Rancho, westerly ,
to the southwesterly corner of said Lot 134, as shown on said
Map of the San Pablo Rancho; thence along the westerly line of said
Lot 134, north 105.90 feet, more or less, to the northerly line of
Road No. 20 as shown on said Map of the San Pablo Rancho; thence
along 'the northerly line of said Road No. 20 of said map, north
990231 West, 1919.5 feet, more or less, to the point of commencement.
Containing 597.00 aorep, more or less. .
RECTION IV.
That said John Jerome, his successors and assigns, shall pay
to the County of Contra Costa the sum of twenty six hundred dollars (4 2600.00)
per year, payable in twelve equal monthly installments in advance, on the first
day of ,each and every month, during the first five years of this license and permit
and the sum.of Thirty—eight humired dollars 03900.00) per year, payable in advance,
in twelve equal monthly installments, on the first day of each and every month,
during thelast forty—five years of said license and permit; and upon failure of
him, said John Jerome, or his successors or assigns, to pay any of said sums when
due, as of oresaid, the Board of Supervisors may revoke said license and permit by ,
resolution of- said Board of Supervisors so declaring said license and permit to be
so revoked as aforesaid.
SECTION V.
That said John Jerome, his successors and assigns, shall at all times
during add period of fifty (50) years comply with-all the sanitary, health, police,
and fire department rules and regulations of the County of Contra Costa.
SECTION VI
That this license and permit. is granted to said John Jerome, his success
ore and assigns, upon the express condition that said John Jerome, his successors
and assigns., or either of them, shall at no time violate any law, federal, state,
county or municipal, on said described premises, or in the conduct of the. said races
contests, exhibits,1 games, or sports events, or permit the violation of any of said
laws on said premises, or in. tha .conduct of the said races, oontests,. exhibits, '
games or sports events, and that in event any such violation of law occurs, or is
permitted, as hereighbove stated, the Board of Supervisors of the said County of
Contra Costa,Otate of California, may at its option, revoke said license and per*it,
or any part or portion thereof by resolution of. said Board of Supervisors, so dealer
Ing said license and permit, or said part or portion thereof, to be so revoked as ,
aforesaid.
SECTION VII
THF-Ordinance shall be published for one (1) week in the "San
Pablo Bee" a newspaper of general .droulation, publ�shed in the County of Uontra
Costa, State of California, within fifteen (13) days after the date of its passage,
and shall take effect thirty �30) days after its passage.
The fpregoiOg ordinance was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting
of the .Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, held on the 22nd day of
19.?
June,-]93T"'by''thb following vote, to:wit r;
ipyeec Supervisors Long, 0ummings, Stow,: Buchanan anfl trembnth.
Noest None.
Absent r #6ne.
W.J. Buchanan
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of ontra,•Costa,,State
(SEAL OF BOARD) of California.
ATTEST
' S.C.- WELLS.
'County Clerk and ex-off io]o Clerk . .
of Board of Supervisors of the
' County of Coma Costa, State of Csl1fornk6 -
ORDINANCE NO. 252.
AN�ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS
aN THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE
NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS, TERMS, AND COMPENSATIONS OF
DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES, THEREOF: -AND REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES, OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES, IN CONDLICT 'THEREWITH. '
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows:
-.In the County of. Contra Costa, the County and Township officers,
deputies, and employees shall receive as full compensation for all services required
of them .by law, or by virtue of their office the following; salaries:
1. CLERK: The County Clerk, Four thousand three hundred and seventy-fi e
( $4,375.00) dollars per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is hereby
allowed ,to the County Clerk the following clerks, deputies and employees who shall b
appointed by-the County Clerk and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid sal
arLes as follows. one chief deputy at a salary of two hundred and twenty five
(0225.00) dollars per month; two courtroom deputies at a salary of Two hundred (4200.00)
dollars.each per month; one office deputy at. a salary of Two hundred (4200.00) dollars
per month; one office deputy at a salary of_ one hundred and fifty (415p.00) dollars
per month; one office deputy at a salary of One hundred and forty five ($145.00)
dollars per month; one office dquty at a salary of One hundred and forty- ($140.00)
Dol]ars.per month; and one office deputy at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five
14125.00) per month; provided, further, that in any year when a General or Primary
Electionor a• Speeial State or, County Election is to held, or the compilation of
a registration of voters is required by law,or supplements to be made thereto, the
County Clerk shall receive for the hire of extra help for compiling of such registration
of voters and making supplements.thereto, and work incidental to said election,
his actual expenses to be paid upon filing and presentation of duly verified claims
therefor by 'the County Clerk or claims approved by the County Clerk with the Board of
Supervisors of said,Countx, after proper allowance of said claim by said Board of
SupervIppre;_and..provided, Yurther, the said County Clerk may appoint such number of
' registration deputies as may be necessary for the registration of voters in their
respective precincts, each of said deputies to receive the sum of ten. (lOgQ cent per
name. for each elector registered by h1m, .said registration deputies to be paid
for .their services on the presentation and filing with the Board_ of Supervisors of
said.C,ounty aduly- verified claim therefor, ,on the general fund of said County,
after, proper-allowance of said.claim by,said Board of Supervisors.
2..AUDITORi. There shall be and there is hereby.allowed to the.Auditor
the following deputies, Clerks and employees who shall be. appointed by the Auditor an
ti hold office at his pleasure, and shall be ;aid salaries as,follows: j
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hne deputy auditor at a salary of Two hundred And..twenty-five ($225.00) dollares;;ler
month; one deputy 4uditor*at a'salary of'One•hundred.and forty { 140.00) dollars.
per month; three deputy auditors at a salary of. One hundred and .thirty' 3130.00)
dollars per month eaoh;"one deputy auditor at a salary of One hundred and twenty fiv
(4125.00) dollars per month; one deputy auditor at a salary of One hundred end five
(4105.00) dollars per month; one deputy auditor at a salary of One hundred and ninet -
five (4195.00) dollars per month, one-half of which latter shall be taken from the '
salary fund and one-half of which shall be taken from the road fund of said�County;
provided, further, that said auditor is hereby allowed such clerks and employees
as he may deem necessary to appoint at a salary of Five (45.00) dollars, four 34.00
dollars, or three (43.00) dollars per day each; provided, however, that the amount ,
of such salaries and compensations paid to such olerks and employees on a per diem
basis shall not exceed the total sum of Eighteen-hundred (41900.00) dollars per annu .
3. TREASURER: The Treasurer,' Three thousand and Five•hundred (43,500.00)
dollars per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the
Treasurer the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the
Treasurer and shall hold offico at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as-
follows: One deputy Treasurer at a salary of Two hundred and twenty-five (5225.00)
dollars per month; one clerk at a salary of one hundred (5100.00) dollars per month.
4. ASSESSOR: The Assessor, FIVE THOUSAND (45,000.00) dollars, per annum;
provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the assessor the follows g
deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the assessor and -shall hold
office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries: one chief deputy
assessor at a salary of two hundred and fifty (425p` 00) dollars.per month; one land '
appraisal deputy at a salary of Two hundred' and fifty (5250.00) dollars per month;
one improvement valuation deputy assessor at a salary of two hundred and twenty-five
0 225:00) dollars per month; one improvement valuation deputy assessor at a salary
of Two hundred (5200.00) dollars per month; two deputy assessors at a salary`of
o ne hundred and eighty (4180.00) dollars per Month each; one transfer deputy assessor
at 'a salary of One hundred and fifty (4150.00) dollars per month; one exemption
deputy assessor at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five (4125.00) dollars per
month; four field deputy assessors, to hold office not to exceed five (5) months
each in any one fiscal year, at a salary of One hundred and fifty (4150.00) dollars
per month each; and such additional deputy assessors, clerks and employees as the
Assessor may appoint at salaries of Ten (510.00) dollars per day, Six 06.00) dollm s
per day;`Four and 50/100 (04.50) dollars, per' day, Four (54.00) dollars per day; '
and Three and 50/100 (03.50) dollars per day each; provided, however, that the
total compensation of such additional deputy assessors, clerks and employees' shall
not exoeed the sum of Six thousand fiV e'hundred and thirty ($6,530.00) dollars 'per
annum;`'and provided, further, that the assessor is hereby authorized to contract
with an 'abstract and title company for copies of transcripts of recorded instrument '
affeoting titles at a compensation of forty (440.00) dollars per month.
5. TAX COLLECTOR: The Tax Collector, Three thousand five hundred*
dollars per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is hereby"allowed to-the
tax Collector the following clerks, deputies and employees who thall be appointed
by the Tax Collebtor and shall be paid salaries as follows: One deputy tax collector
at a 'salary of Two hundred and twenty-five (0225.00) dollars per math; one deputy
Tax collector at a salary of One hundred and seventy-five 0175.00) dollars per month
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one deputy,;tax,'collector :at a salary'of One hundred. and-fifty ($150.00) dollars per,,.
-month-, one"clerk- at, a salary of One hundred and thirty-five dollars (0135-.00) per
month;,:one stenographer-olerk at a salary of. One hundred and twenty five ($125.00)
dollar.s4er month; -and such copyists and clerks as the tax collector may. appoint at
a salary!,of -three and 50/100 (03.50) dollars per day or four and 50/100 ($4,50)
' Aollars' per day each; provided, however, that the total amount of salary and compenp t-
ion .paid•:to such copyists and clerks shall;not•exceed the sum of Five thousand
and five hundred ($5,500.00) dollars per annum.
M 8TFITCVATTORM: There shall be and there is hereby allowed to, the
District' Attorney the following deputies, clerks and employees viho shall be,.Appointe
' by the District Attorney and hold office at his pleasure, and vho shall be,paid
salaries as follows: one chief deputy district attorney at a salary of three hundred
,($300.00) dollars per month; three (3) deputy district attorneys at a salary of
two hundred and twenty-five ($225-00) dollars per month each; one detective who• shal
assist the district attorney in the detection of crime and prosecution of criminal
cases and in civil actions and proceedings and all other matters in which the County
is interested, whose dalary is hereby fixed at the sum of Two hundred and twenty-fmv
($225.00) dollars per month; one stenographer to the district attorney at a salary
of One hundred and forty-two ($142.00) dollars per month; two (2) stenographers
at a salary, of one hundred and twentyfive ($125.00) dollars per month each.
7. CORONER: The Coroner, such fees as are now and may hereafter be allow-
ad by law, provided, however, that the coroner shall be allowed for general dervioes
' in holding an inquest the sum of Ten ($10.00) dollars, and provided, further, that
there is hereby allowed to the coroner one stenographer whose duty it shall
be to act as Reporter and take down in shorthand and transcribe into longhand the
testimony of the, witnesses at all inquests, which stenographer shall be appointed
by the Coroner and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid a salary of one
hundred and tuenty-five (°$125.00) dollars per month.
6. SURVEYOR: The Surveyor, Five thousand 05,000.00) dollars per annum,
provided, however, that the surveyor shall not engage in private practice of enginee -
ing or surveying, and provided, further, that there shall be and there is.hereby
allowed to the surveyor the following deputies and employees who shall be appointed
. lV the surveyor and shall hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salarie
as follows: one chief deputy surveyor at a salary of three hundred ($300.00) dol]a r
per month; one deputy purveyor at a salary of two hundred and sixty ($260.00) dollar
' per month; two- (2) engineers at a salary of two hundred and twenty five (5225.00)
dollars •per month each;- one draftsman at a salary of rwo hundred and twenty five
(4225.00)• dollars per month; one draftsman at a salary of Two hundred (0200.00)
dollars per month; one instrument man at a salary of two hundred (1200.00) 11ollars
per, month;,,two (2) 'chain-men at a sUary of One hundred and twenty-five ($125.00)
dollars per month'each; two (2) rod-men at.a salary of One hundred and thirty-five
0135.00) dollars'per month each; one stenographer at a salary of one hundred and
twenty-=five ($125.00) dollars per month; provided, further, that the surveyor may
employ.:additional chainmen at a wage of five and 50/100 ($5.50) dollars per. day,
instrument men 'at seven ($7.00)• dollars per day, draftsmen at Eight (48.00), dollars
per day7and engineers at Ten ($10.00) dollars per day, when in the opinion of the
surveyor such additional employees are necessary; provided, however, that the total
amount of compensation paid for such additional employees on a per diem basis shall
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not: in fany�.fis661,'year .exceed the sumofThree;,:thousand -33,000.00) dollars.
C9}., BLASSIFICAT°ION OFTOWNSHIPS:• The :population of the-several Judi oial_town—
ships for the purpose' of,fixing the compensation, of township- officers: shall..be:as-
certained! and declared by the Hoard of Supervisors in the- month of July, 1938,r:and
In the month of`July every four years thereafter as follows: said board shall, by
order -at:!a regular meeting determine the population of each township to be three- ,(3)
times the".repistration of legal voters an file July first of said year in- each town—
ship and every four years thereafter succeeding, and it shall declare this sum to be
the population of each township. Said Township 'shall further be classified as follows:
SS 1: Townships having a population of more than twenty thousand (20,000. ).
CLASS 2: Townships having a population of from ten thousand and one (10,001) ,
to tenty—thousand (?0,000).
CLASS 3: 'Townships having apopulation .of from seven thousand and one (7,001)
to ten thousand (10,000);
CLASS 4: Townships having a population of from four thousand and one (4,001)
to seven'.thousand (7,000);
CLASS 5: Townships havinga population cf from two thousand and one (2,001)
to four thousand- (4,000.
CLASS 6: Townships having a population of from one thousand and one (1,001)
to two thousand (2,000);
CLASS 7: Townships having a population of less than one thousand (1,000)
;:JUSTICES OF THE PEACE: Justices of the Peace shall receive the following
monthly,salaries: '
(1) In Townships of the first class THREE HUNDRED And Seven ($307.00) dollars
per month:;
(2) In Townships of the second class, One hundred and seventy—five ($175.00)
dollars per month.
(3) In Townships of the third class, One hundred. and fifty—four (0154.00)
dollars per month.
(4) In Townships of the fourth class, One hundred and thirty-two (0132.00)
Dollars per month.
(5)i In Townships of the fifth class, One hundred and ten (4110.00) dollars
per month.
. (6) In Townships of the sixth class, Forty ($40.00) dollars per month.
(7) In Townships of the seventh class, Fifteen 315.00) dollars per month.
.IT IS FURTHER PROVIDED that 'there-shall be and there is hereby allowed to
each justice of the peace, a sum not to exceed twenty (20%) per cent of his monthly
salary,`for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office. Each. fustic '
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of the peace shall file an itemized statement supported by receipt s or vouchers
on the. first day of each and every month designating the actual expenditure on his
part of,expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his said office, for the..
preceding month, and no allowance shall be made'ao any justice of the peace'forF.:ex '
pensee necessarily incurred in the conduct of his said office, unless same shall.be
itemized and designated in said claim filed by him as herein provided.
(S) For purposes of this. mpction,the various dockets and legal forms .F
required by the Justices of the peace for the conduct of their offieesshall not?be
deemed tobeexpenses of their offices, but such dockets and legal forms, sub�ebt
to the',approval of the District Attorney, shalli be furnished by ,the County upon
requisitions to,the Purchasing Agent and the expense thereof shall be defrayed-,from
a general fund appropriation for the purpose.
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�Ft`9)yi`It16 further provided that justtioes of tYe peace of all townships;ahall
issue receipts for all money collected by,them in the performance of th-eir duties:
T1`1l; '' SHERIFF:'"' The Sheriff,' Five thousand. ($5,000,00) dollars per annum;-that
there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff the following deputies,
clerksand` employees'who shall be appointed by the Sheriff and shall hold office at
his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries: One undersheriff at a-
' salary of� two hundred and fifty ($250-00) dollars per month, one deputy sheriff at
a salary' of Two hundred and twenty-five ($225.00) dollars per month; three (3) deputy
'Sheriff's"at -a salary of Two hundred (4 200.00) 'dollars per month each; one deputy
sher'ift"to act as"day jailer at a salary of one hundred and seventy-five ($175.00)
' dollar s`per month; one deputy sheriff to act as night jailer at a salary'of one
hundred and seventy-five ($175.00) dollars per month; two (2) deputy sheriffs t6 act
as bailiffs at 'a salary of One hundred and eighty-fico ($165.00) dollars per month
each; three (3) 'deputy sheriffs at a salary of one hundred and seventy-two ($172.00)
dollars per month each; one deputy sheriff to act as phbtographer at a salary of one
'hundre'd and sixty' ($160.00)ddllars per month; one deputy sheriff to act as radio
teohniolan at 'a salary of one hundred and sixty ($160.00) dollars per month; 'one
deputy 'sheriff at a salary of one hundred and sixty ($160.00) dollars per month;
one secretary'at a salary of one hundred and thirty ($130.00) dollars per month;
two (2)� deputy sheriffs at a. salary of one hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars per mc nth
each; one fail matron at a salary of One hundred and ten ($110.00) dollars per
month; provided, further, that.,the Sheriff may employ from one (1) to five (5) persons
go act as deputy'sheriffs at a 'salary of-four and 50/100 ($4.50) dollars per day,
when, in the ,judgment of the sheriff, such deputies are necessary; provided, However,
that` the total amount of the compensation Lr such additional deputies-to be paid per
diem shall not in any fiscal year exceed the total sum of Night hundred ($600.00)
dollars;',provided, further, that the compensation of such last mentioned deputies
shall be 'paid upon presentation of duly verified claims filed with the Board of
Supervisors of said County in-the same manner that other claims are filed and paid.
There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff to be �y him
retained for his- own use all mileage for service of papers in civil aotions arising
either'in or outside of the County, excepting actions in which the County is Interested
and also all mileage in criminal cases for each mile actually and necessarily
traveled by automobiles at the rate of six and one-half (6 1/2) cents per mile;
A1T fees collected by the Sheriff for the service of papers and proces8es in•eivil
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matters''shall be collected by the sheriff for the use and benefit of the County,
and shall by him be paid into the County Treasurer at sch times and manner as re-
quired'by law.
12. CONSTABLES: Constables in the' several townships shall receive the
' following salaries:
(1) In Townships of the first class, the sum of One hundred and fifty-sigh
($156.00) dollars per month;
(2) In,Townships of the second classi the sum of One hundred and fifty-
eight�'($156.00) -dollars per month;
(3) In," Township of the third class, the, sum of One hundred and.,fifty' eight
($156:'00) dollars per month; -
' (4) in Townships of the fourth' cla;ss, the sum of One hundred and fifty-eig t
(4159.00) dollars per month;
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15). In;Townahipe of the fifth:class,,the-,..sum.of.One..hundred ands?jirty
ei94t.,;(0155.00) .dollars,per month;
(6) In.Townships of. the sixth olass, •the..sum of Ninety ($90.00), Ldollar9
per month. _
(7) In Townships of the seventh class, the sum of Twenty five ($25.00)
dollars per month. .,
It Is.further provided that constables in townships of the first, second,
third, fourth classes shall receive an amount not to exceed twenty-five (25;x) per
cent of.;the it monthly salary as and for expenses necessarily incurred in the. eonduc
of his off ice. .._.Each constable shall file an itemized statement supported by receipts
or veuehers, on the first day of each and every month, designating the actual ex- ,
penditure on his part of expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct .of his office,
for the:preeeding month and no allowance shall be made to any constable for expense
unlessthe same shall be itemized and designated in said claim filed by him as here n
provided.
In addition to the salary and expenses above provided,eonatables shall in
all classes of township's, receive the following fees: for serving subpoenae
the same fees and mileage as are now or may be hereafter allowed by law for the ser-
vice of,a subpoena issued out .of justice court; for summong a coroner's fury, the
same fees as are now or may he hereafter allowed for summoning a fury in a civil
action in the ,justice court; for transporting prisoners to the County Jail, or
patients to the Cbunty Hospital the sam of six and one-half (6*) cents per mile.
In Addition to the,salaries, compensations and. fees above allowed, each constable ,
may receive for his own use in civil .cases the .fees allowed by law.
13. RECORDER: The Recorder, THREE TH OU SAND AND FIVE HUNDRED ($3,500.00)
doll§rs_,per annum; provided, that there shall,be and there is hoby allowed to the
Recorder ,the following deput ie s, clerks ,and employees who shall be appointed by the
County Recorder and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as foll ws:
One deputy Recorder at a salary of Two hundred ($200,00).•dollars per month; one
deputy recorder at a salary of one hundred and seventy-five 0175.00) dollars per
month; one deputy recorder at a salary of One hundred and thirty ($130..00) .dollars
per month; two (2) index clerks at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five ($125.00
dollars per month each; three (3) copyists at a salary of one hundred and twenty-
five. ($125.00) dollars per month each; one comparing clerk at a salary of onehundr d
($100.00) dollars per month; and such copyists as the 6unty Recorder shall appoint
at,a salary of three and 50/100 ($3.50) dollars per day each; provided, however,
that the total salaries on a per diem basis (or by folio at the discretion of the
Recorder as hereinafter mentioned) paid to said last named copyists shall not excee
the sum.:of One thousand and eight Hurdred ($1500.00) dollars per annum; provided,
furtte r, that the County Recorder at his.discretion may pay copyists the sum of fou ,
MO )per folio •(100 words) actually copied tastead of upon a monthly or per diem bas s.
14. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR: The Public Administrator, such fees as are now
or may hereafter be allowed by law.
16.. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: The. Sealer of Weights and Measures, _
Two thousand and four hundred ($2,400.00) dollars per annum; provided, that there s all
be and there is hereby allowed to the Sealer of Weights and Measures two deputy!
sealers of weights and measures at a salary of one hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars
per month each.
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'446 AGRICULTURAL'COMMISSIONER: 'The Agricultural iCommiseloner,_two-.thou sand
and=6eiieri'hundred'-'($2,700:00) 'dollars per annum; provided , that there'shall• be and
there`=i'6'ihe'reby`allowed'•to the Agriculture �Commiasioner the 'followirginspectors
and clerks to be appointed by said Commissioner and- to hold office at his pleasure,
and t1i4(26 l.aries -Hereby fixed as follows,-to-wit: .One standardization.'inspeotor
at' 6' siiary of''one hundred and forty ($1110.00) dollars per month; one clerk at a
' "salary''of one •hundred $100.00) dolhms per month and five rodent inspectors
( P (5) p
at a llsalary of five`($500) dollars per diem each, during the. time actually employe ,
but the aggregate amount which may be expended in any year for such rodent Inspeeto a
"'shall riot exceed the sum of Seven thousand ($7,000.00) 'dollars per annum.
' 3-17. PROBATION OFFICER. The Probation Officer, Two thousand and seven1hund r d
($2,700.00) dollars per annum; provided that there shall be and there Is hereby
allowed"'to the Probation Officer one assistant to the Probation Officer at a salary
of One hundred and sixty—five ($165.00) dollars per month; one stenographer at a
salary of One hundred and ten ($110.00) dollars per month.
16. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS: The superintendent of Schools Five
Thousand ($5,000.00) dollars per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is
hereby allowed to the Superintendent of Schools the following deputies, clerks
and employees who shall be appointed by the Superintendent of Schools and hold
"office`'at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries as follows: one field
deputy superintendent of schools to assist the superintendent in the dischxge of
his duty in vieiting and examining schools as provided by law, and it shall be the
' duty'of�said` field dep#y superintend alit,to make written reports of his examination
to b6- tir nemitt'ea by the superintendent 'of schools to each trustee of all school
districts so examined, which said field deputy superintendent shall receive a
salary- 6f'three hundred ($300.00) dollars per month; 'one deputy superintendent
of' schbols�at a salary of Two hundred ($200.00) dollars per month; one deputy
superi4'endent of schools at a salary of one hundred and sixty ($160.00) dollars
per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary of one hundred and ten
($110:0o) dollars per mcrth;
19. COUNTY LIBRARIAN; The County Librarian, Three thousand ($3,000.00)
dollar s' per annum.
20. SUPERVISORS: Each Superftsor shall receive as expenses as Supervisor
and 'Road Commissioner six and one—half ( 6 1/20 ) cents per mile each way traveling
' to and from his residence while engaged in the performance of the duties.of super—
vision of public roads!V' or other business of the County, said mileage not to excee
Three hundred ($300.00) dollars per annum while traveling within the County of
Contra'-Costa and in addition thereto shall be allowed at the rate of six and one;—half
(6 1/2' A oents per mile for actual miles traveled without the County of Contra
' Oosta as mileage for the performance of County business out.side the County.
It 'is further provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to
each supervisor, a sum not to exceed twenty—five (25%) per cent of his monthly .
salary, for expenses, necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office. Each
Supervisor shall file an itemized statement supported by receipts or vouchers
on the fir at day of each and every month designating the,actual expenditure on his
part of-expenses, neoessarily incurred inthe donduct of his said office, for the
preoeding'month, and no allowance shall be made to-any Supervisor for expenses
necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office unless the same shall be itemize
and designated in said claim filed by him as herein provided.
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::2.1., ;BONDS:. The cost ofbonds of County. Officers, their assistants.,-)deputies
and employee,s,,.suh, as required by law bo be., furnished` when executed with a,reliable
bond..and„surety: eompany, and duly approved shall;be a charge against the bounty,,; ;
payable;,,out of the, General Fund.
.22. .%ALLOWANCE FOR ACTUAL AND NECESSARY MENSES. Actual, reasonable,,. and
necessary expenses shall be allowed all the offichrb of the County and their deputie '
in the discharge of their official duties, subject to such limitations as are else-
where herein provided.. Detailed expense accounts must be rendered on the_first .day cf
each month for the expenses incurred in the previous month. For traveling neoessaru
done by automobile, an officer shall be allowed mileage at the rate of six and one�4h f
(6 *0 ) ,cents per mile, without any constructive mileage and he shall be allowed his '
actual traveling expenses when he travels by rail.
The salaries and expenses of the officers and their deputies herein. sot
forth shall be in full compensation for the services required of them as such officers
and deputies in and by virtue of their offices and by law in such case made and 'pro-
vided, and all other fees, mileage, 6r other;remuneration or compensation of any
kind or character. reeeived by officers or their deputies, for or by reason of any duty
Imposed by law on them as such officers and deputies or accruing to them by virtue
of their offices and unless specifically allowed to them herein Ehall be paid into the
CountyiTreasury at such times and in such manner as required by law, provided, how-
ever, that until such time as the Oounty provides for such officers and makes. avail
able. to their use such numbers of automobiles. as are reasonably necessary to carry
out the'-duties of their respective offioe, •such officers shAll be allowed to retain '
for their own use and benefits such mileage as may be allowed by law or hereinbefore
set forth and allowed.
23. SALARIES -_ HOW PAID. Salaries of all officials, deputies, clerks
and employees herein provided for shall be paid by the County in monthly installments
at the same time and in the same manner and out of the same fund as the salaries of
County officers are paid,, exeept as herein otherwise ordained; provided,. however,
that the salary and compensation of all clerks, engineers, copyists, and employees
of every kidd, working on a per diem basis, ..shallbe paid only upon their filing
with, and allowance by the Board of Supervisors of said County of their duly, verified
claims for the sum .due them; .and provided, furthw,
All ordinances, or parts of ordinanoes, ,in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed; and provided, furthr,
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 1st day ,
of.September, 1937, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date of
its passage the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for and
against::the same in the Crockett Signal, a newspaper printed and published in ,the.
County .of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of County of Contra Costa, on the 2nd
day of,-August, 1937, by.the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings,.Buchanan and Trembath.
Noe s: None.
-Absent:. Supervisor Stow.
W.J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of
the. County of Contra Costa, _St ate, of
ZTEST:' California.
E S.C. WELS,,
County Clerk and ex-offioio Qlerk of the
Board of Supervisors ,of the ocount of
Contra Costa, State of California ”
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0h4,99 CE NO': x253.
AN''ORDINANCE"AMENDING'',ORDINANCE NO:' 245 of THE COUNTY"OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE
OF CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED: 'IAN ,ORDINANCE OF THE'COUNTY`OF CONTRA COSTA,-' STATE OF
CALIFORNIA;" INSTRUCTING'THE"COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION OF SAID COUNTY TO PREPARE,
A ZONING OR DISTRIBUTING-PLAN AS'A PART OF THE MASTER PLAN OF'SAID COUNTY; APPLYING
CERTAIN REGULATIONS TO THE USE OF LAND, BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES, AND TO THE"ERECT_
ION, CONSTRUCTION AND ALTERATIONS OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND IMPROVEMENTS PENDING
THE'ADOPT ION BYTHE BOARD OF. SUPERVISORS OF A ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN; AND THE :
PRESCRIBING PENALT IES FOR THE VIOLATION OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF11 AS AMENDED
' BY ORDINANCE'NO. "247 AND ORDINANCE NO.^249-.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of .Contra Oosta do ordain as•follows,
to wit:
ORDINANCE NO. 245 entitled "An Ordinance of-the County of Contra Costa,
' State of California, instructing the County Planning Commission of said County to
prepare a zoning or distributing plan as a part of the Master Plan of said County;
applying certain regulations to the use of land, buildings and structures, and to
the erection, construction and alteration of buildings, structures and improvements,
pending the adoption by the Board of Supervisors of a Zoning or Districting Plan;
and prescribing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions hereof', passed
and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the 14th
day of December, 1936, as amended by Ordinance No. 247, passed and adopted by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, .on.the 19th day of March, 1937
and as amended by Ordinance No. 249, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisor
of the Oounty`' of Contra Costa on the 7th day of June, 1937, is hereby amended by
Adding a new section to be designated Section 5d; which said Section 5d shall follov
' immediately after Section 50 of said Ordinance and amendments, and which shall read
as follows:
SECTIONI
Seoti6n' 5d. Interim Land Use District No. Six is hereby established,
oonsithg of the`following described territory:
Being a strip of land 2000 feet wide, the center line of %hioh
is:described as follows:
-.Beginning at.tYe ,East Portal of the Inter-County Tunnel and.
running easterly along the center line of the Mt.Diablo
Boulevard, otherwise .known as State Highway route No. 775 A
to the westerly boundary line of the Lafrqette County Vater
:District.
SECTION II.
Section 5e. Interim Land Use District No. Seven is hereby established,
consisting. of the following described territory:
' Being a .strip of land 2000 feet wide, the center line of whish is
described as follows:
BEGINNING at apoint on the easterlyundary line of the Lafayette
County Yater District, which point is 4he center line of State
" Highway Route 'No. 75A, and following said oenter line of said
Highway easterly to the westerly boundary line of the Town of
Walnut Creek.
' SECTION III.
This Ordinance is hereby declared to be anurgency iheasgre ;and shall „
take effect and shall b6' in full force immediately upon its adoption, and within
fifteen (15) days after 'said"adoption shall be published with the names of the
members voting for and 'again'st the same for one'"(1)' week in the Courier-Journal
a newspaper of`general"ciroulation, printed and published in said County. The
oonditionst oon'stituting, suoh'urgency are as follows, to wit : : Certain .uses of
land, 'buildings' and structures would, if established and conducted within any Inter m
' Land Use District est"ii6hed`by this Ordinance, be 'a menace.to .the public health,
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safety and general welfare. - Said Board'of supervi�ora.hereby"finds that various
persons intend to ereot,buildings or structures and,;to• use; the same and to use land
for such,purposes, andiwill .do:;so unless restrained therefrom. The immediate '
'_operation of this Ordinance is therefore necessary'in'order to protect the public
health, safety and general welfare. ;` 7
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The foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the . County of Contra Costa, ata regular session of said Board, held on the 1st
day of November, 1937, by the following vote, to wit: .
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings$ Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes:, Supervisors-.. .None.
Absent: Supervisors- None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
ahairman,,of, the Board o•f Supervimrs.
ATTEST:
County Clerk and ex-officio
Clerk•.,,of the Board.,of, Supervisors.
of the County of Contra Costa,
State .of:.Calif ornia•_::, •;
ORDINANCE NO. 254.
AN:ORDINAN CE ,OF,,THE, COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, .STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
DEFINING THE TERMS USED-IN ANY ORDINANCE ADOPTING A ZONING PLAN
OR ANY.PART THEREOF FOR ANY PORTION OF THE UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY
OF SAID COUNTY.
The:Board of Supervisors of the County of Cont"ra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows: '
SECTION 1: The definitions set forth in this Ordinance shall apply to the terms
used in any ordinance•.adopting a zoning plan or any part thereof for any portion
of the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
and in any ordinance relating,thereto;
SECTICN II: All words used in the present tense shall include the future; all
words in the plural number shall include the singular number and all words in the
singular number•,shall include the plural number; unless the natural construction
of the wording indicates otherwise. The word "lot" includes the word "Plot";
the word "building" includes the word "structure',' and the word "shall" is mandatory
and not directory. The word "County" shall mean the County of Contra Costa, State
of California; the words "Board of Supervisors" shall mean the Ooard of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,'.the words "rlanning Commission" '
shall mean the ,County Planning.,Commission of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California,"-,and-,the wordsounty Boundary" shall`mean' the boundary of the County
of Contra Costa, State of Caiifornia, and/ or the boundary of any incorporated
municipality within said County.
SECTION 3:, Agriculture:_ • The.tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture ,
small livestock farming,,; dairying and/ or animal husbandry, including ali-uses
customarily�,inoidental;theretoi but not including slaughter houses, fertilizer yards,
bone yards_or;plants..for the,reduction of animal;matter or any otter industrial use
which:is. similarly objectionable because of odor, smoke, dust or fumes.
SECTION=•:4: Alle : ; A way,which affords only a•.secondary means of access to
abutting,property.
SECTION 5: , Apartment., . A room or suite of two or more rooms which is designed ford
intended for and/ or occupied by one family doing its cooking therein.
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SECTION 6 Apartment'Court: See Dwelling Group.
`SECTION 7" Ana$tment Hou so: See DwellingiWiltiple. �
gECTION Se AutomobileCamp: Land or premises tihichis used or intended to be
-used, let or rented for occupancy by campers traveling by automobile or otherwise,
or for occupancy by or of trailers or movable dwellings, rooms or ale eping quarters
of any kind.
' SECTION Q:'AUTOMOBILE COURT. A group of two or more detached or semi-detached
buildings containing guest rooms and/ or apartments with automobile storage space
serving 'suoh guest rooms and/ or apartments provided in connection therewith, which
group is designed, intended and/ or used primarily for the accomodation of automobile
' travelers; including groups designated as auto cabins, motor lodges, and by similar
designations.
SECTION '1O . Automobile Wrecking: . See Junk Yard.
SECTION 11: Basement: A story partly underground and having at Beast one-half
(1/2) of. its height above grade. A basement shall be counted as a story if the
vertidal distance from grade to the ceiling is oder five feet or if used for business
purposes or if used for dwelling purposes by other than•a janitori or domestic
servants employed in the same building, including the family of the same.
SECTION 12: Block: 'Tlat property abutting on one side of a street and lying betsee
the two nearest 'intersecting or intercepting streets, or nearest intersecting or
intercepting streets and railroad right of way, or unsubditided acreage.
SECTION 13: Building: Any structure having a roof supported by columns and/ or
by walls and intended for the shelter, housing and/ or enclosure of any person,
' animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every othe
portion thereof by a masonry division or fire wall without any window, door or other
opening therein, which wall extends from the ground to the upper surface of the roof
at every point, then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate building.
SECTIION 14: Building, Accessory. A subordinate building, the use of which is
ineidental' to that of a main building on the same lot. On any lot upon which is
located a dwelling any building which is incidental to the conducting of any agri-
cultural use shall be deemed to be an accessory building.
SECTION 15: Building, Main. A building in which is conducted the principal use
of the lot upon which it is situated.
SECTIM 16, BUN ULOW COURT: See House Court, also Dwelling Group.
SECTION 17: Business or Commerce: The purchase, sale or other transaction involvin
' the handling or disposition•(other than is included in the term "Industry" as
defined herein) of any article, substance or eommodity�for• profit or livelihood-
including, in addition, office buildings, offices, garages, outdoor advertising sign
and outdoor advertising structures, automobile camps, automobile courts, and re
oreational and.amusement enterprises, conducted for profit, but not including dunk
yards.
SECTION 18 Center line: The center line of a street, as referred to in any zonin
ordinance, shall mean the center line thaeof as established by'the County Surveyor
`of the County or by the City Engineer of any city within the County or by the Divis-
ion of Highways of the Department 'of Public Works of the State of California. If
no''sueh'eenter line has been established, the center line of astreet shall be a line
ying midway between the side lines of the .right of ,way thereof. In any case in
which the foregoing definition is not applicable, the Planning Commission shall
designate the center line.
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SECTION 19:''Court: An open,'unoccupied space,:other than a yard,' on the ?same lot`
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with a building or buildings and „which is bounded 'on two 2) or moresidesuch
building or buildings, including the'open space in a house court or court apartmen
providing access to the units thereof.
SECTION 20: District:
1. A portion of the unincorporated territory of the County within which '
under the terms of any zoning ordinance, certain uses of land, premises and .buildin s
are permitted and certain other uses of land, premises and buildings are not per-
mitted and within which certain yards and other opon spaces are required and certai
building site areas are established and certain height limits are established
for buildings. '
R. A portion of the unine6rpbrated territory,of the (bunty within which ,are '
applied certain regulations designated as combining regulations as set forth in,
any. zoning ordinance.
SECTION 21: Welling, One-Fantly. A detached building designed for and/ or.occupie
exclusively by one family.
SECTION 22: Dwelling, two-Family. A detached building designed for and/ or occupied
exclusively by two families living independently of each other.
SECTION 23: Dwelling, Multiple: A building or portion thereof used and/ or desi -
ed as a residence-for three or more families living independently of each other,
and doing their own cooking in saJJ building, including apartment houses, apartment
hotels and flats, but not including automobile courts.
SECTION 24: Dwelling Group; A group of two or more detached or semi-detached '
one-family,two-family or multiple dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one -own-
ership and having any,yard or court in common, including house courts and apartment
courts,.but not including automobile Courts.
SECTION 25: Family: One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a
single, non-profit housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying .a
hotel, club, fraternity or sorority house . A family shall be deemed to include
necessary servants.
SECTION 26: Front Wall: The wall of the building or other structure nearest.
the street upon which the building faces, but excluding.sueh architectural features
as may be specified in any zoning ordinance as being so excluded.
SECTION 27: Garage, Private: An accessory building for only the storage of selfr
propelled vehicles.
SECTION 29: Garage, Public: Any premises, except those herein defined as a '
private or storage garage, used for the storage and/ or oare of self-propelled
vehicles or.where any such vehicles are equipped for operation- or repair, or kept
for remuneration, hire or sale.
SECTION 29: Garage, Storage: Any premises, except those herein defined as a ,.
private garage, used exclusively for the storage of self-propelled vehicles
SECTION 30: Grade:
1. For buildings adjoining one street only, the elevation of the sidewalk.
at .the center of, that wall adjoining the street.
2. For buildings adjoining more than one street, the average of the elevat ions
of the sidewalks at the .centers of all walls adjoining streets.
3. For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average level of the
finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the building.
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I+. ;All•walla approximately 'para,lle1 to,ard =not more than.five, (5) feet from.
the street;-line.;shall be, considered as adjoining the street.
SECTION 31•:.. .Guest Room. A room which is intended, arranged or :designed to be
occupied or.r,which is occupied by one or more guests, but in which no provisions
is made for cooking and not including. dormitories for sleeping purposes.
' SECTION 32:. Height of Building: The vertical distance from the average level of
the highest and-lowest, point of•that portion of the Lot covered by the building,
to the :ceiling of the topmost, story.
SECTION 33 Home occupation : Any use customarily conducted entirely within a
dwelling and,carr,ledoby the .inhabitants thereof, ,which use is clearly incidental
' and .secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change
-'the character thereof. Clinics, hospitals, barber shops, beauty parlors and animal
'hospitals shall not be deemed to be home occupations.
SECTION 34: House Court, See Dwelling Group.
SECTION 35: Hotel: Any building or portion thereof, containing six (6) or more
guest rooms used, designed.or intended to be used, let or hired out to be occupied,
or which are occupied by six (6) or more individuals, for compensation, whether
the compensation be paid directly or indirectly.
SECTION 36: Industry: The manufacture, fabrication, reduction or destruction of
any article, substance or commodity or any other treatment thereof in such a manner
asto change the form or.character thereof, including, in addition, the following:
animal hospitals; bottling works; building materials or contractors yards; cleaning
' and dyeing establishments; creameries; dog pounds; junk yards; laundries; lumber
yards, milk bottling or distributing stations; stockyards; storage elevators; truck
storages, service or repair; warehouses; and wholesale storage.
SECTION 37: JUNK YARD. The use of more than two hundred (200) spare feet of
bhe area of any lot or of any portion of that half of any lot, but not exceeding
a depth or width, as the case may be, of one hundred (160) feet, which half adjoins
ahy street, for the storage of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap material,
and/ or for the dismantling or "wrecking" of automobiles or other vehicles or mach-
inery; provided, however, that this definition shall not be deemed tjinclude any
ease .of any of the foregoing uses which is accessory and incidental to any agri-
cultural use.
SECTION 39: Lot: Land occupied or to be occupied by a building and its accessory
buildings, or by a dwelling group and its accessory building s, together with such
' open spaces as may be required under the provisions of any zoning ordinance, havin
not less than the minimum area required by such ordinance for a building site in
the district in which such lot is situated, and having its principal frontage on
a street;:
SECTION 39: Lot, Corner: A Lot situated at the intersection of two or more
streets or bounded on two or more adjacent sides by street - lines.
SECTION 40: Lot, Interior: A lot other than a corner lot.
SECTION 41: Lot, Key. Mhe first lot to the rear of a corner lot, the front line '
of which is a continuation of the side line of the.. corner lot, exclusive of the
width of any alley, and fronting on the street which intersects or intercepts
the street upon which the corner lot frats•,
.SECTICN 42: Lot' Area: The total horizontal area included within lot lines,
including one-half (1/2) the width, but not to exceed ten (10) feet, of any alley
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or portion of, abutting any such. lot line:
SECTION 43: Lot Depths `' 'The average distance` from the 'street`line of the:lot to;;'
its rear'line,measured 'in the,general,direction of "the side lines :of,the Lot. 7 `,
SECTION 41c` Lo't Frontage. ;'That dimension of a lot`or portion of a lot abutting
on a street, except the side of- a.corner lot.
SECTION 45: Lot Line The lines bounding a lot .As..defined herein. '
SECTION 46; Lot Line,'Rear. Ordinarily, that'line of a lot which is generally
opposite the lot line' along the frontage of said Lot. ''In any case in which this
definition is not applies.4e,.'the Planning Commission shall designate.the.rear lot 1 ne. .
SECTION 47: Natural Production Use: Any of the following uses: agriculture,
mining; prpduction; storage ordistributionof water supplies; cutting and splitting '
of wood; extraction of minerals, building and construction materials or other naturaL
materials.
SECTION 49: Non—Confmrming Use: A building or land occupied by a use that does
not conform to 'the regulations for the district in which it is:situated,
SECTION 49: One Ownership: Ownership of property (pr possession thereof under a
contract to purchase or under a lease the term of which is not less than ten years)
by a person or persons, firm, corporation, or partnership, individually, jointly
in commoOln any other manner whereby such property is under single or.unified
control. The term "owner" shall be deemed to mean the person, .firm, corporation,
or partnership exercising one ownership as herein defined.
SECTION'50: 'Outdoor Advertising Sign: Any card; cloth, paper, metal, painted,
glass, wooden, plaster, stone, or other sign of any kind or character whatsoever '
placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush,
rock, post, fence, building, structure or thing whatsoever. The term 11placed4
as used in the definitions of 11outdooradvertising sign" and "outdoor advertising
structure" shall include erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking,
nailing, glueing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible
in any manner whatsoever.
SECTION 51: Outdoor Advertising Structure: Any structure of any kind or character
erected or maintained. for outdoor advertising purposes, upon vhichany outdoor
advertising sign may be placed, including also outdoor advertising statuary.
SECTION 52: Small Livestock Farming. The raising and/ or. keeping .of more than
twenty—four fowl of any kind{ and/or twenty—four rabbits or twenty—four similar
animals or any goats, sheep or similar livestock; or the raising and/ or keeping for
commercial purposes of any cats or dogs; provided that the term "small livestock '
farming" is used in this ordinance shall not include hog Farming, dairying or the
raising and/. or keeping of horses, mules, or similar .livestock.
SECTION 53: Stable, Private: Any accessory building where not more than three. (3)
horses are kept. ,
SECTION•54: si,able , 'Public: A stable other than 'a private stable or with capaci y
for more than three 13) Horses.
SECTION 55: Story: That portion of a building included between,the: surface of an
floor and the surface of the Next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it,
then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
SECTION 56: Story, Half:. A story with at least two (2) opposite exterior sides
meeting a sloping roof not more than two (2) feet above the floor of :such story.
SECTION 57; Street: A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principa
means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane,
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i.b highway, road and:;any .other-thoroughfrerexcepan alley as defined herein:
SECTION 5�.. Street Line:' The boundary 'between•a street,and abutting property.
SECTION59: 8tizuctu're: Anything constructed 'r`erected, the use of which requires
location on the ground or attachment to something-having location on the ground.
SECTION 60; Structural Alterations. Any change' in the supporting members of a
' building, such,as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
'SECTION. 61. 'Use : The purpose for which land or premises or.a building thereon is
designed, :arranged or intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.
SECTION 62: Use, Accessory': A use incidental and accessory to the principal use
of a lot and located there om,or_to the.principal use-of.a building located-on the earn
' lot as the accessory use:
SECTION 63: Yard: An open space other than a court on the same lot with a building
which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upwards, except as
otherwise provided in any zohing ordinance. In measuring a yard, as hereinafter
provided,the line of a building shall be deemed to mean a line parallel to the neares
lmt line drawn"through the point of a building or the point of a dwelling group
nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective architectural features
enumerated in any zoning ordinance as not tobe considered in measuring yard dimension
or as being; permitted to extend into any front or rear -yard.
SECTION 64: Yard, Front : A yard extending across the front of the lot between the
inner side yard lines and measured from the front line of the Lot to the nearest
line of the building; provided, however, that if Rpy Official Plan Line is establishe
' for the street upon which the lot faces or if any- future width line is specified
therefor by.:the provisions of any zoning ordinance, then such measurement shall be
taken from such Official Plan Line or such future width line to the nearest line of
the building.
SECTION 65: YARD, Rear: A yard extending across the full width of the lot and .
measured between the rear line of the Lot and the nearest line of the building.
RECTION 66: Yard, Side: A yard between the side line of the Lot and the nearest
.line of the building and extending from the front line of the lot to the rear yard.
SECTION 67: Zoning Ordinance: _ Any ordinance of the County adopting a zoning plan
or part thereof for any portion of the unincorporated territory of the County or any
ordinance of the County relating to any such plan or part thereof.
SECTION 65:. ' This -Ordinance shall be known and cited as the Zoning Definitions
Ordinance of the County of Contra Costar
SECTION 69 This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 2
day of December, 1937, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date
of its adoption, the same shall be published with the names of the members voting
for and against the same in Contra Costa Standard, a newspaper of general circulation
printed and published in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by 'the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on 'the first
day of November, 1937, by the' following vote
Ayes: Supervisors'Long,' Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
Does: None.
Absent:: None.
V. J. BUCHANAN
- Chairman of the Board of Supervisors `
of the County of Contra Costa, State
ATTEST: S. WELLS 'of California.
County Clerk and 0-woffic16 Clerk
of the-Board- of Supervisors of the County
of Contra Costa,' State of Calif orni a. ''
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�,, ., �,• ORDINANCE NOLi 255.
AN,ORDINANCE'OF,THE ,COUNTY OF .00 NTRA•COSTA,' STATE-OF;CALIFORNIA, PRESCRIBIN
THE 'PROCEDURE'WHICH SHALL GOVERN IN CONNECTION'WITH'ANY zONING PWµ OR PART'THEREOF
WHICH MAY BE:LDOPTED FOR ANY:PORTION-OF THE UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY OF;SAID COUNTY
AND IN CONNECTION WITH ANY ORDINANCE RELATING THERETO.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: The procedure prescribed in this ordinance shall govern in '.
connection with any zoning plan or part thereof which may be adopted for, any
portion of'the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra. Costa, ptate-of
California, .and. in connection with any ordinance relating thereto. The term "zoning
'ordinance" as used in this ordinance shall mean any ordinance adopting any such
zoning plan,or part thereof.or any ordinnnco relating thereto.
SECTION 2. . EFFECT OF ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS: In any district establia -
ed by any zoning ordinance Me--f-0-170—wing provisions shall apply insofar as any of '
the regulations referred to in said provisions are specified in such zoning ordinan e
as applying ttn such district.
(a) No Building shall be weeted, reconstructed, structurally altered, added't ,
enlarged or moved, nor shall any b.nd, .building, or premises be used, designed,
or intended to be, used for any purpose or in any manner other than is included
among the uses listed in such zoning ordinance as permitted in such district.
(b) No building shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to
exceed in heightthe limit designated in such zoning ordinance for such district.
(c) No Building shalMreeted, nor shall any existing building be altered,
added to, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any open spaces surrounding any building
be encroached upon or reduced in any manner, except in conformity to the yard,
building site area and building location regulations designated in such zoning
ordinance for such district .
(d) No yard or other open apace provided about any building for the purposes
of complying with the provisions of any zoning ordinance shall be considered as
providing a yard or open space for any other building, and no yard or other open
space in one lot shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for a build-
ing on any other lot.
SECTI(N 3: DISTRICT BOUNDARIES: ,
Where,uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of any district established by
any zoning ordinance, the following rules shall apply:
(a) Where such boundaries are indicated as approximately following street
and alley lines, such street and alley lines shall be construed to be such boundaries.
(b) Wherd such boundaries are indicated as approximately following lot lines,
such lot lines shall be construed to be such boundaries.
(c) In subdivided property or where a district boundary divides a lot, the
location of any. such boundary, unless the same is indicated, by dimensions shown on
a Map designating such boundary, shall be determined by the use of the scale appear-
ing on such. Map.
(d). In case further uncertainty exists, the Planning Commission,; upon
written application or upon its own motion, shall determine the location of such
boundaries.
SECTION 4: NON-CONFORMING USES:
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the lawful use of lgnd existing
at the time of the adoption of any zoning prdinanee, although such use does not . . .
conform to the regulations specified by such ordinance for the district in which.suc
land is located, maybe continued; provided, however, that no such non-conforming '
use be extended to occupy a greater area of land than that occupied by such use at
the time of the adoption of such ordinance; provided, further, that if any such
non=conformi.ng use ceases, any subsequent use of such land shall be in conformity
to the regulations specified by such ordinance for the district in which such land
is located.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the lawful use of a build.bg
existing at the time of the adoption of any zoning ordinance may be continued, al-
though such use does not conform to the regulations specified by such ordinance for ,
the district in which such building is located, . Any such use may be extended
throughout the building provided no structural alterations except those required by
law or ordinance are made therein. If no structural alterations are made, the non-
conforming use of a building may be changed to another non-conforming use, which,
in the opinion of the Planning Commission, is of the same or of a more restricted
nature. If a non-conforming use of a building ceases for a continuous period of not
less than six (6) months, any future use of said building shall be in conformity
to the regulations specified by such zoning ordinance for the district in which such
y building is located. If any non-conforming building is hereafter removed, the sub-
sequent use of the land on .w}ich such building was located shall be in conformity
to the regulations specified by such zoning ordinance for the district in which located.
No existing building designed, arranged or intended for or devoted to a use
not permitted under the regulations specified by any _zoning ordinance for the dis-
trict in which such building or premises is located shall be enlarged, extended, re-
constructed or structurally altered unless such use is changed to a se AAermitt d
under the regulations specified •by. such ordinance for such district n wFiicn sad
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building is located; provided, however, that work done in any period of twelve (12)
months on,ordinary structural alterations or replacements of walls., fixtures or.r,
plumbing,not' exceeding `twenty=five (25) per cent' of the building's assessed. value
aocording--to: the Raseesment thereof by the Assessor of the County for the fiscal- year
in which such°work is done shall be permitted, provided, that the cubical contents
of the building as it existed. at the time of the passage of such zoning ordinance
be not increased.
If at any time any building in existence or.maintained at the time of the
adoption of any zoning ordinance, which does not conform to the regulations for the
district in which it is located, shall be destroyed by fire, explosion, Act of God,
or act of the public enemy to the extend of more than seventy-five (75) per cent
' of thP' asse'ssed value thereof according to the assessment thereof by the said
Assessor for the fiscal year pturing which such dedruction occurs, then without
`further action by the Board of Supervisors the said building and the land on which
said building was located or maintained shall from and after the date of such des-
truction be subject to all the regulations specified by such zoning ord3.nance for
the distridt in which such land and b'iilding are located.
The foregoing provisions shall also apply to non-conforming uses in
districts hereafter changed.
' Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be deemed to require any change
in the plans, construction, or designated use of any building upon which actual
construction was lawfully begun prior to the adoption of any zoning ordinance
and upon rhich building actual construction has been diligently carried on. Actual
.construction is hereby defined to be the actual placing of construction materials
in their permanent position fastened in a permanent manner; except that there x
basement is being excavated, such excavating shall be deemed to be actual construct
or where demolition or removal of an existing structure has been begun prepara -
ory to rebuilding, such demolition or removal shall be deemed to be actual construe -
ion; provided that in all cases actual construction workEhall be diligently carried
on until the completion of the building or structure involved.
Regardless of any other provision of this Ordinance, no dunk yard, building
materials, storage yard or contractor's ,yard which, after the adoption of any zoning
ordinance, exists as a non-conforming use in any district established by such
ordinance shall continue as herein provided unless such dunk yard, building materials
, storage.�ird or contractor' s yard shall, within one (1) year from and after the date
that such use becomes a non-conforming use, be completely enclosed within a buildin
or within a solid fence, for which plans and sketches shall be submitted as provid-
ed in Section 6 of this Ordinance. All other provisions of this section shall
apply to any such non-conforming use.
Regardless of any other provision of this Ordinance, any use for which a
' use permit is required or for ithich a use permit mny be granted, as provided in
this Ordinance, which use is existing at the time of the adoption of any zoning
ordinance in any district in which such use is specifically permitted subjeetto
the securing of a use permit , shall without further action be deemed to be a
conforming use in such district.
SECTION 5: BUILDING PERMITS AND PLATS:
Building permits shall be obtained from the Planning Commission or from
the officer or employee thereof designated by the Commission for such purpose for
such work and such classes of buildings and structures as may be designated in any
zoning ordinance as requiring such permits in the district in which such work
and such buildings and structuree are located or are to be located.
Every application for any permit required by the provisions of this section
shall be accompanied by a drawing or plat, in duplicate, drawn to scale,. showing
„r.--the lot and building site, the proposed location of the building on the lot, occur
ate dimensions of the building, of the yards and of the lot, and such other
information as may be necessary to the enforcement of this ordinance. A careful
record of the original copy of such application and plat shall be kept in the
office of the Planning Commission and the duplicate copy 'shall be kept at the
building at. all times during construction.
SECTION 6: ARCHITECTURAL SUPERVISION:
' In case an application is made for a permit, as required in Section 5 of
this Ordinance, for .any building, strudaure or other improvement in any district
established by any zoning ordinance and specified therein as coming under the
provisions of this section, said application shall be accompanied by drawings or
sketches showing the front, sides and rear elevations of the proposed building,
structure or other improvement, or of the building, structure;. or other improve=
ment as the same will appear after the work for which the permit is sought shall
have been completed. Such drawings or sketches shall be considered by the Plannin
Commission in an endeavor to provide that such buildings, structures and other
' improvements shall be so designed, and constructed that they will not be of un-
sightly, undesirably or obnoxious appearance to the extent that they will hinder
the orderly and harmonious development of the County, impair the desirability of
residence, investment or occupation in the Oounty as appearing to travelers passin
through or traveling in the County, limit the opportunity to attain the optimum use
and value of .land and improvements, impair the desirability of living conditions
in the same, or adjacent agricultural or residential areas, and/. or otherwise adver
sely affect the general prosperity and welfare. To this end, the Planning Corpmis on
'shall suggest any changes in the plans of such proposed buildings, structures .
and other improvements which' it may deem to be necessa.ry to accompalish the pur-
pose of-this section, and shall not approve any such plans until it is satisfied
that such purposes will be accomplished thereby. In case the applicant is not
satisfied with the action of the Planning Commission, he may, within thirty (30)
days after such action, appeal in writing to the Board of Supervisors. Said Board
shall hold a hearing on said appeal and shall render its decision thereon within
thirty (30) days after the filing thereof. No permit, as provided herein, shall
be issued unless the plans filed with the Epplication therefor as required in this
action shall first have been approved by the Planning Commission or by the Board
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of Supervisors. Upon such approval, the' Planning Commission, or such officer,
employee -thereof' as said Commission may; designate-for;such,purpose,. shall; issue- ;
such`permit,• provided; all other provisions of .law have;,been,complied with. Every
drawing or,'sketch filed: under the provisions of thisSaction shall,,become a part,;
of the permament records of the Planning Commission.
SECTION 7: '•CERTIFICATES OF-OCCUPANCY:,
No vacant land which is located in any district established by any zoning`,
ordinance and which is specified in such ordinance as requiring certificates
of occupancy shall hereafter be occupied by used, except for agricultural uses;;. ,
and no building hereafter erected, structurally, altered or moved, for which buildi
a permit is required under the provisions of Section 5 of this ordinance, shall.-be
-occupied. or-used until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued by the.
Planning 'Commission or by such officer or employee thereof as the Commission miay
designate for such purpose.
Applicatian for-a certificate of occupancy for a new building or for an exist
Ing building which has been altered or moved shall be made at the same time as
the application for a permit for such building as required in Section 5 of this '
Ordinance. Said Certificate shall be issued within three (3) days after a written
request for the same shall have been made to the Planning Commission or to said
officer or employee thereof after the erection, alteration or moving of such .
building or part thereof.shall have been completed in conformity with the provision
of this ordinance. Pending the issuance of such a certificate, a temporary
certificate of occupancy may be issued by the Planning Commission or by said office
or employee thereof for a period of not exceeding six (6) months during the complet
ion of alterations or during partial occupancy of a building pending its completion
Such temporary certificate shall not be construed^as in any way altering the
respective rights, duties' or obligations of the owners or of the County relating
to the use or 'occupancy of the premises or any other matter covered by this
Ordinance and such temporary certificate shall not be issued except under such re-
strictions and provisions as will adequately insure the safety of the occupants.
Written application for a certificate of occupancy for the use of vscnnt lend
or for a change in the character of the use of land, as herein required, shall be
made before any such land shall be so occupied or used, except for agricyltural
purposes. Such a Certificate of occupancy shall be issued within three 3) days
after the application therefor has been made, provided such use is in conformity
with the provisions of this Ordinance.
Every Certificate of ocoupaney shall state that the building or proposed use
of a building or land am;plies with all provisions of lAw and of All county ordinane s.
A record of all certificates of occupancy shall be kept on file in the office
of the Planning Commission and copies shall be furnished, on request, to Any, person ,
having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the .building or land affected, No fee
shall be charged for a certificate of occupancy.
No permit for excavation for any building shall be issued before application
has been made for a certificate of occupancy.
SECTION g. ADJU SPMENTS, VARIANCES AND APPEALS:
The Planning^ Commission, subject to the approval and confirmation of the
Board of Supervisors in each case, as hereinafter provided, shall have power to
grant adjustments and variances in and to any of the provisions of any zoning ordinance
to the extent of the following and no further:
1. To vary or modify the strict application of any of the regulations
or provisions contained in such ordinance in cases in mh ieh there are practical
difficulties or unnecessary hardships inthe way of such strict application.
2. To permit the extension of a district where the boundary line thereof,
divides a lot in one ownership at the time of the passage of such ordinance.
Application for any adjustment or variance permissible under the provisions
of this section shall be made to the Planning Commission in the form of a written
applbation for a building permit or for a permit to use the Property or premises
as set forth in said application and shall set forth all details of the proposed
construction or use. Upon receipt of Any such .application by the officer or employ-
ee
mplo ee of the Planning Commission designated in the rules of the Commission for such
purpose, such officer or employee shall set a time and place for a public hearing
before the Planning Commission on such application, Such officer or employee
-shall cause public notice of such public hearing to be given by causing one
notice thereof to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Count
t` at least ten (10) days before the date of such hearing . At.said hearing the
applicant shall present a statement and adequate evidence, in such form as the
Planning Commission may require, showing;
1. That there are special circumstances or conditions applying to the land, ,
building or use peferred'to in the application.
2. That the granting of the application is necessary for the preservation
and enjoyment of substantial property rights.
3. That the granting of the application will not materially adversely
affect the health or safety of persons residing or working in the heighborhood,
of the property of the applicant.and will not be materially detrimental to the
public welfare or injurious to property or improvements in said neighborhood.
The Commission shall thereupon make its decision on the said application
and shall report such decision to the Board of Supervisors within forty-five .(45)
days after the filing of the application. In granting any adjustment or variano
under the provisions of this section, the Planning Commission shall designate such
conditions in connection therewith as will, in its opinion, secure . substantially
the objectives of the regulation or provision to which such adjustment or variance
is granted, as to light,: air and the public health, safety, morals, convenience
and general welfare. No permit shall be issued under the provisions of this ;
section unless and until a decision of the Planning Commission as aforesaid,
approving the same, shall have been approved and confirmed by the Board of
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Supervisors, : `in 'reporti'ng it s decision to theBoard of, Supervisors the Planning
Commission .shall, report its findings with respect::'thereto and all facts in connect-
ion.therew th , and shall, specifically and fully set. Borth any adjustment or variance
granted';and th50 ns'•designated. Upon receipt of such report, if the decision
Of the Planning ip;; h�ba the' gianting of the application, the Board of Supervisors
either,shall, .b resolution, approve and confirm said decision, whereupon the permit
as applied for'may issue; or shall refuse to approve and confirm such decision.
In all cases in which adjustarents or variances are granted under the provisions of
this section, the Planning Commission shall require such evidence and guarantees
,. as It may deem to be necessary that the conditions designated in connection therewit
' are being and will be complied with.
The Planning Commission shall have power to decide any question involving
the interpretation of any provision of any zoning ordinance.
Any person who is dissatisfied with any decision or ruling of the ylanning
Commission may, within thirty (30) days rafter the date of such decision or ruling,
appeal fherefrom in writing to the Board of Supervisors, who shall have power to
over--rule such decision or ruling.
BECTIO1_4 9:_ USE PERMITS:
' Use permits may be issued for any of the following in any district establish(d
by any zoning ordinance:
1. Any, of the uses or purposes for which such permits are required or permitt-
ed
ermit -ed by the provisions of any such ordinance.
2. Public utility or public service uses or public buildings when found to
be necessary for the public health, safety, convenience or welfare.
3. Commercial excavating of natural materials used for building or construct-
ion purposes.
4, To classify as a conforming use any institutional use existing in any suc
district st the time of the establishment of such district.
5. To permit the location of any of the following uses in a district from
whiehthey are excluded Vy-the provisions of any zoning ordinance establishing such
district: airport, library, community center, church, hospital, institutions of an
educational, philanthropic, or charitable nature, cemetery, crematory, mausoleum,
and any other place for the disposal of the human dead.
Such use permits shall be issued under the same procedure as that specified
in Section 8 of this Ordinance for the granting of adjustments or variances, except
that :
1. No public hearing need be held thereon; provided, however, that the
Planning Commission may hold such hearings thereon as it may deem to be necessary;
and provided, further, that a public he»ring shall be held on any application for a
use permit for the establishment of any use listed in the preceding paragraph number d
' n511 of this section.
2. The Findings of the Planning Commission, except as otherwise provided
in this section, need include only that the establishment, maintenance and/ or condu t—
ing of the use for which a use permit is sought will not, under the circumstances
of the particular case, de detrimental, to the health, safety, morals, comfort,
convenience, or general welfare of persons residing; or working in the neighborhood
of such use and will not, under the circumstances of the particular case, be detri—
mental to the public welfare or injurous to property or improvements in said
neighborhood.
3. Any proceedings to classify certain uses as conforming uses, as provided
in this section, may be initiated.by the Board of Supervisors or by the Planning
Commission, or by petition as hereinbefore provided.
Allother provisions of said Section 8, including the designation by the Planni g
Commission of any conditions upon which the use permit may be issued and guarantees
that such conditions will be complied with, shall apply to the granting of a use
permit.
Any use permitted under the terms of any use permit shall be established
and conducted in conformity to the terms of such use permit and of any conditions
designated in connection therewith,
SECTION 19: AMENDMENTS:
Any zoning odinance may be amended by changing the boundaries of districts
or by changing any other provisions thereof whenever the public necessity and conven
ience and the general welfare require such amendment, by following the procedure
specified in this motion. Said amendment may be initiated by:
(a) The verified petition of one or more owners of property affected by the
' proposed amendment, which petition shall be filed withthe Planning Commission and
shall be accompanied by a fee of Twenty—five (25) dollars, no part of %hich shall
be returnable to the petitioner: or by
(b) Resolution of intention of the Board of Supervisors; or by
c Resolution of intention of the Planning Commission;
ThePlanningCommiesion, not later than at its next succeeding meeting
following the filing of such verified petition or following the adoption of such
resolution of intention, shall set the times and places for such public hearings
thereon'as may be required .by law, and shall give such notice of such hearings as
may be required by law. Such notice shall include notice of the proposed amendment.
In case the.proposed amendment consists of a change of the boundaries of any distric
., so as to)reclassify property from any district to any other district, the Planning
Commission shall give additional notice of the time end place of such hearings
and of the purpose thereof by:
1. Posting public notices thereof not less than ten (10) days prior to the
date of the first of such hearings along each and every street upon which the prop—
erty proposed to be reclassified abuts. In case a majority of the property
proposed to be reclassified has been subdivided into parcels of one (1) acre or les
in area, such notices shall be placed not more than five hundred (500) feet apart
and;such posting shall extend along said street or streets a distance of not less
than five hundred (500) feet from the exterior limits of such properties as are
proposed for reclassification. In the case of all other property proposed to be
reclassified such notices shall be placed not more than one (1) mile apart. Each
such notice shall consist'of the words "Notice of proposed zoning change" printed
_in plain type with letters not less than one (1) inch in height and in addition
thereto:a statement *in small type setting forth a general description of the proper y
involved in the proposed change of district, the time and place at which the public
hearings on,-the, proposed change will be held and".any other information which.-the.:,'
Planning ,Commission:may;deem. to be necessary; and by
2., Mailing.a postal,card notice not less than. ten days prior to the date of
the ;first of•such hearinga to the owners of all property within the_posting.area
above defined,'using for this purpose the last known name and address of such '
owners as 'shown,,upon the •records of the Assessor of'the` County.
No imperfection cr irregularity in any of the 'said notices shall invalidate,
any proceedings for amendment of.any .zohing ordinance.
Following the aforesaid hearings the Planning Commission shall make a report
of its findings ad recommendations with respect to the proposed amendment
and shall file with the Board of Supervisors an attested copy of such report within
ninety (90) days after the date of the meeting'at which said Commission set the '
times and places er said hearings:' Failure of the Planning Commission so to report
within said ninety (90) days, shall be deemed to be approval of the proposed amend-
ment by .the; Planning Commission.
Upon receipt of such report from the Planning' Commission, or ippon the ex-
piration of such ninety (90) days as aforesaid, the Board of Supervisors shall set
the matter for public hearing after notice thereof and of the proposed. amendment;
given as provided by law. After the conclusion of such hearing the Board of
Supervisors may adopt the amendment or any part thereof set forth in the� petition-
or in the resolution of intention in such form as said Board may deem to be advisab e. '
The decision of the Board of Supervisors shall be rendered within sixty (60)
days after the receipt of a report and recommendations from the Planning Commission
or after the expiration of such ninety (90) days, as aforesaid.
Upon the consent of the Planning Commission any petition for an amendment
may be withdrawn upon the written application of a majority of all the persons
who signed such petition. The Board of Supervisors or the Planning Commission,
as the case may be, may by resolution, abandon any proceedings for an amendment
initiated by its own resolution of intention, provided that sunh abandonment
may be made only when such proceedings are before such body for consideration
and provided that any hearing of which public notice has been given shall be held.
SECTION 11: FORM OF PETITIONS, APPLICATIONS AND APPEALS:
The Planning Commission shall in lire rules prescribe the form and scope 'of all
petitions, applications and ,appeals provided for in this ordinance and of accompany
Ing data to be furnished so as to assure the fullest practicable presentation of
facts for proper consideration of the matter involved in each case and for a. permam nt
record. Any petition for an adjustment or variance as provided in Section S of
this Ordinance, or for a use permit as provided in Section 9 of this ordinance,
or for an amendment as provided in Section 10 of this Ordinance, shall include a
verification by at least one of the petitioners, attesting to the truth and correct
nese of all facts and maps presented with said petition. Puch verification shall be
dated and attested before a notary public or before the County Clerk.
SECTION 12: ENFORCEMENT, LEGAL PROCEDURE, PENALTIES: '
Alldepartments, officia is and public employees of the County which are vested
with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the
provisions of all zoning ordinances and shall issue no such permit or license for
uses, buildi +w
ngs, or purposes where the same ould be in conflict withthe provisions
of any such ordinance and any such permit or license, if issued in conflict with
the provisions ,of any such ordinance, shall be null and void.
It shall be the duty of the Planning Commission to enforce the provisions
of all zoning ordinances pertaining to the erection, construction, reconstruction,
moving, conversion, alteration or addition to any building or structure.
It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of the County and of th R officers of
the County herein and/..or otherwise charged by law with the enforcement of-ordinances
of the County to enforce all zoning ordinances and all the provisions thereof.
Any person, firm or corporation, whether•as principal, agent, employee or oth r-
wise, violating any of the provisions of any zoning ordinance shall be-guilty. of.
a misdemeanor, and upon conVietion thereof shall be p,u nishable by a fine of not
more than three hundred (300) dollars or by imprisonment in the County Jail of the
County for a term not exceeding three (3) months or by both such fine and imprison-
ment. Such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be guilty of a separate
offense for each' and every day during any portion of which any violation of any
zoning ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or '
corporation, and shall be punishable as herein provided.
?any building or structure set up, orected, constructed, altered, enlarged,
converted, moved or maintained contrary to the provisions of any zoning ordinance
and/ or any use of any land, building or premises conducted, operated or maintained
contrary to the provisions of any zoning ordinance shall be and the same is hereby
declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance and the District Attorney of the
County shall, upon order of the Board of Supervisors, immediately commence action
or proceedings for. the abatement and removal and enjoinment thereof in the manner '
provided by law. and shall take such other steps and shall apply to such court or
courts'as,may. have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate and remove such
building or structure and restrain and enjoin nny person, firm or corporation from
setting up, erecting, building, maintaining, or using any such building or structure
or using any property contrary to the provisions of such ordinance.
The remedies provided forherein shall be cumulative and not exclusive.
SECTION 13: INTERPRETATION OF ZONING ORDINANCE.
In interpreting and-applying the provisions of any zoning ordinance, 'they
shall be held to be.the.minimum. requirements adopted for the promotion of the' "
public, health,. safety, comfort, convenience and'gei►eral welfare-. Except as
specifically.provided in any. such zoning ordinance, it is not intended by the' ',"
adoptionthereof to repeal, alrogate,'. annul or in' any way to impair or interfere
with any existing provision of law or rndinance, or any rules, regulations 'or ,per-
mits previously
er-mita_previously adopted or, issued, or which shall -be adopted or issued pursuant
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to. law 'relating.to the use of buildings, :or premises,; or relating to the erection,
consItruction''i-establlshment• moving", ,or'.enlargement of any building-or
improvement'; nor.is'.it intend'ed'by any, such zoning"'ordinance to'interfere with
,Or abrogate or annul any easement covenant or'other 'agreement between parties,
provided, howhver, that in cases in which any zoning ordinance imposes a greater
restri:atio: upon the erection, construction, establishment, moving, alteration or,
enlargement of buildings or the use of any such building or premises in said
several districts or any of them, than is imposed or required by such existing
provisions of law or ordinance or by such rules,` regulations or permits, or by such
easements, covenants' or agreements, then in such` cases the provisions of such zonin
oxdinance, shall control:
' SECTION 14: VALIDITY.--
If any, section, sub.-section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance
is for any reason held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such
decThe}Beard$of Supervisorstherebyalidlty declaresfthe that itmwouldghavetions passedf s .
this ordinance
and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause and phrase hereof, irrespective
of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses, or
phrases be declared invalid.
SECTION 15: REFERENCE:
This,Ordinance shall be 'known and cited as the Zoning Procedure Ordinance
of the County of Contre. Costa.
SECTIO14 16: ENACTMENT:
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in farce from and after the 2nd
day of December, 1937, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the
date of it s adoption, the same shall be published with the names of the members
voting for and against the same in Pittsburg Independents a newspaper of general
circulation printed and published in the County of Contra Costs..
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County ofContra Costa, on the
first day of November, 1937, by the following vote:
Ayes: .Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent : None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisor
of the bounty of Contra Posta,
ATTEST, S.C. WELLS, State of California,
County, Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors.
ORDINANCE NO. 256._
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 245 OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, INSTRUCTING THE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION OF SAID COUNTY
TO•PREPARE A ZONING OR DISTRIBUTING PLAN AS A PART OF THE MASTER PLAN OF SAID
COUNTY: APPLYING CERTAIN REGULATIONS TO THE USE OF LAND, BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES,
AND'TO THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION AND ALTERAIMNS OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND IMPROV
MENTB PENDING THE ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF A ZONING OR DISTP.ICTING
PLANS A14D PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF"
AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 247, ORDINANCE NO. 249, AND CRDINA NCE NO. 253.
The Board of Supervisors-of the County of Contra Costa do ordain as follows,
towit:
ORDINANCE NO. 245, entitled "An Ordinance of the County of Contra Costa,
State'of California, instructing khe County Planning Commission of the said County
to prepare a zoning or distributing.plan as a pert of the Master Plan of said County;
applying; certain regulations to the use of land, buildings and structures, and to
the erection, construction and alteration of buildings, structures and improvements,
pending the adoption by the Board of Supervisors of a Zoning or Districting Plan;
and prescribing penalties for the violation of any'of the.provisions hereof" passed
and adopted by'the Board of Supervisors of the County of Qontra Costa, on the 14th
day of December, 1936, as amended by Ordinance No. 2rF7, passed and adopted by the
' Board of Supervisors of .the County of Contra Costa on the 19th day of March, 1937
And as amended by Ordinance No. 249, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors o
the County of Ccnt ra Costa on the 7th day of June, 1937, and as amended by Ordinance
'No. 253, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa
on the let day of November, 1937, is hereby amended by adding a new section to be
designated as Section 5f, which said Section 5f shall follow Immediately after Sectio
5e of said ordinance and amendments, and which shall read as follows:
SECTION I: ,
section Sf.Interim Lan�Use District No.,,tght is hereby established,
consisting.of the following described property: `
BEGINNING at the northwest corner of Section 10, T 1 S., R. 2 W;
thence east along.th a north line of Sections 10 and 11 to a point on the west line
of, the Rancho San Ramon, which point is the southwest corner of Gould's Addition;
thence N. 530 E. along the south line of Gould's Addition and said line extended to a
point on the east line of the Rancho San Ramon; thence northeasterly in a straight
line to the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of Section 1, T 1 S., R. 2 W;
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thence east along,t he north lime of,said quarter section to a point in the south."
line of Rancho:San Miguel; .the nce southeasterly a]mg said line to the dividing',.'' '
line betweenDivisions No. 1 and 5, Hill Land of said Rancho; thence no'rthweste'rly`
along said.line. :to the line between Division No. 1 and Division No. 2 of the Robert
Allen Tract of said Rancho; thence northeasterly along said line to the northwest'
corner of Part B of said Robert Allen Tract; thence east to the northeast corner of aid
Part B; thence south to the Mt. Diablo Base Line; thence east along the south
line of Sections 35 and 36, T 1 Dir, R. 1 W. to the southeast corner of Section 35,
at the summit of Mt. Diablo; thence south two and one-half miles to the west quarter
corner of Section 19, T 1 S. , R. 1 E. thence east four and one-half miles to the
center of section 14, T 1 S., R. 1 E; thence south one-half' mile; thence east one
half mile to the northeast corner of section 23; thence south five miles to the ,
southeast corner of Section 11, T S. , R. 1 E. thence west along the south line ---
of Sections 11, 10 and 9, T 2 S., K. 1 E. to the east line of Lot 3, as said Lot is
so designated and delineated upon that certain Map entitled "Map of the property
of the Estate of Elizabeth A.Dougherty" filed for record May 4th, 1891, inVol. C
of Maps, at page 63 records of Contra Costa County; thence southerly along the
easterly line of said Lot 3 to the dividing line between Lots 3 and 4; thence north-
westerly along said dividing line to the dividing line between Lots 4 and 21; thence
southerly along the said dividing line between Lots 4 and 21 to the dividing line
between Lots 20 and 21; thence southwesterly along said dividing line between '
Lots 20 and 21 to the northerly line of Lot 28; thence southeasterly along the
northerly line of Lot 26 to the dividing line between lots 29 and 19; thence souther y
along the dividing line between Lots 29 and 19, 290 and 18, 31 and 17, an d32 and 16
to a point on the boundary line between Cotztra Costa and Alameda Counties; thence
southwesterly, northwesterly, northeasterly and northwesterly along said county
boundary line to the point of intersection of acid line with the dividing line betwe n
Sections 34 and 35, T 1 S., R. 2 W; thence north along the west line- of Sections—
35, ?6 and 23 to the northwest corner of said Section 23;thence west one-half mile;
thence north one-half mile; thence west one-half mile to the west quarter corner
of Section 15; thence north one and one half miles to the northwest cornerof Sectio
10 and the point of beginning.
SECTION II,
This Ordinance is hereby declared to be an urgency measure and shall take
effect and shall be in full force immediately upon its adoption, and within fif teen
(15) days after said adoption shall be published with the names of the members voting
for and against the same for one (1) week in the Courier-Journal a newspaper of
general circulation, printed and published in said county. The conditions constitut
Ing such urgency are as follows, to wit: Certain uses of land, buildings and struct-
ures would, if established and conducted within any interim Land Use District estab-
lished by this ordinance, be a menace to the public health, safety and general welfare.
Said Board of supervisors hereby finds that various persons Intend to erect build-
ings or structures and to use the same and to use land for such purposes, and will
do so unless restrained therefrom. The immediate operation of this ordinance is '
therefore necessary in order to protect the public health, safety and general welfar .
The foregoing ordinam a was passed and adopted by the Board of Super-
visors of the Uounty of Contra Uosta, at a regular session of said Board, held on th
6th day of December, 1937, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, and Buchanan.
Noes: None.
Absent : Superv]s3r Trembath.
W. J BUCHANA N
Ya firman of the Board of Superviso s.
ATTEST:
S.C. WELLS,
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the '
County of Contra Costa, State of California.
ORDINANCE NO:: 257.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECPION 23, of ORDINANCE NO. 252
RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS ,
OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, AND PROVIDING FOR THE
NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS, TERMS AND COMPENSATION OF DEPUTIES
AND EMPLOYEES THEREOF.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Section 23 of the County Salary Ordinance No. 252 is hereby
amended to re as ollows:
"Seo. 23. SALARIES- HOW PAID: Salaries of all officials, deputies, '
Clerks and employees herein provided for shall be paid by the County in monthly
Installments at the same time and in the same manner; out of the same fund as the
salaries of county officers are paid, except as herein otherwise ordained; provided,
however, that the salary and compensation of all clerks, engineers, copyists,
and employees of every kind, working on a per diem basis, shall be paid only upon
{ their filing with, and allowance by the Board of Supervisors of said County of
their duly verified claims for the sum due them; provided, further, that, at the
eleotion of the employee, indicated by written instructions of suchemployee, filed
by him with the County Auditor, a portion of his salary or wages may be paid on his
behalf direct to his insurer to cover the amount of the monthly premium on any Y
insurance contracted for by him•under any group insurance plan arranged by him in
conjunction with other employees."
This'Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the
7th day of January, 1938, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after.
the date of its passage, the same shall be published with the names of the members
voting for and against the same in the Martinez Herald, a newspaper,printed and pub-
v ti��7��
2�1 J
.lashed in the+ County of"Cortsa Costa
Adopted by the.Board ot 'Supervisors."of the County of Contra Costa,
•,on,the• 6th_ day.)of Dec. '1937;" by•the"following'=vote:.
.Ayes:i Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan.
Noes."Supervisors- None.
Absent: Supervisors-Trembath.
W. J.'BUCHANAN
Chairman of,the, Board of Supervisors
o ounty of Oontra Costa State of
ATTEST'.- C orn ia.
' S C. WELLS 1
County Clerk and ex-officio
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
"of the.County of Contra Costa,:.
State of California..
ORDINANCE No. 258•.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY ZONING DEFINITIONS ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE" OF THE COUNTY OF CONTPA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DEFINING THE TERMS USED IN ANY ORDINANCE•ADOPTING A ZONING PLAN
OR ANY PART THEREOF FOR ANY PORTION OF THE UNINCORPORATED
TERRITORY OF SAID COUNTY, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 254-
Th e
54.The Board of Supervisors of the County of Centra Cassa, State of California,
do ordain.as follows:
SECTION 1: The definitions set forth in this ordinance shall apply to
the terms used in any ordinance adopting a zoning plan arany part thereof for any
portion of the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, and in any ordinance relating thereto.
' • SECTION 2: All words used in the present tense shall include the future;
all words in the plural number shh1 1, include the singular number and all words in the
singular number shall include the plural number; unless the natural construction of
the wording indicates otherwise. The word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word
"building" includes the word "structure" and the word"shall" is mandatory and not
directory. The word "County" shall mean the bunt y of Contra Costa, StAte of
California; the words "Board of Supervisors" shall mean the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, State of California; the words "Planning Commission"
shall mean the County Planning Commission of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California; and ,the words "county boundary" shall mean the boundary of the County of
Contra Costa, State of California, and/ or the boundary of any incorporated municipa ity
within said County.
SECTION 3: Agriculture: The tilling of the soil, the raising of craps,
' horticulture, small livestock farming, dairying and/ or animal husbandry, including
all uses customarily incidental thereto but not including slaughter houses, fertilizer
yards, bone yards, or plants for the reduction of animal matter or any other indus-
trial use which is similarly objeetrionable because of odor, smoke , dust or fumes.
SECTION 4: Alley: A way which affords ,ohly a secondary means of access
to abutting property.
BECTIC14 5: Apartment. A room or suite of. two or more rooms which is
designed Tor,, intended for and/ or occupied by one famlly doing its cooking therein.
SECTION 6: Apartment Court. See Dwelling Group.
° SECTION-7: Apartment House. See Dwelling, Multiple. .
SECTION 8: Automobile Camp. Land or premises which is used or intended
> to,.be used, ,let or rented for occupancy by campers traveling by automobile or other-
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ther wise, 3)r"for occupancy by nr of traiiers'or movable dwellings, rooms or sleeping
quarters of any kind.
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SECTION`9'0''",Automobile 'Court: A"group of.twoior..more:detached or semi-detach
ed buildings containing guest rooms and/ or apartment s ,witlyautomobile storage spaoe
serving such,guest rooms and/ or ,apartments provided .in.:connection therewith,
which group is designed, intended and/ or used primarily for the aecomodation of
automobile, travelers; Including groups designated as auto cabins, motor lodges,
and by similar designation$., '
SECTION 10: Automobile Wrecking: See Junk Yard.
SECTION 11: Basement : A story partly underground and having at least one-
half (1/2) of its height above grade. A basement shall be counted as a story if
the vertical distance from grade to the ceiling is over five feet or if used for
business purposes or if used for dwelling purposes by other than a janitors or domes-
tic
ome tic servants employed"in the same building,' including the family of the acme.
SECTION 12: Block:• " -That property abutting-on-one side of a street and
lying between the two nearest intersecting or intercepting streets, mr nearest inter
seating or intercepting streets and railroad right of way, or unsubdivitipd acreage.
::SECTION 13:_Building: Any structure having, a roof supported by columns and/
or by walls and intended for the shelter, housing and/ or enclosure of any person,
animal or chattel. When any portion thereof is completely separated from every
other portion thereof by a masonry division or fire wall without any window, door
or other opening therein, which wall extends from the ground to the upper surface
of the roof at every point', then each such portion shall be deemed to be a separate
building.
SECTION 14: Building, Accessory: A subordinate building, the use of '
which is incidental to that of a main building on the same lot. On any lot upon
which is located a dwelling any building which is incidental to the conducting of
Any agricultural use shall be deemed to be an accessory building.
SECTION 15; BUILDIMT MAIN. A bxilding in which Is conducted the principal
use of the lot upon which it is situated.
SECTION 16: Bungalow Court: See House Court; also-Dwelling Group.
SECTION 17: Business or Commerce: The purchase, sale or other trans—
action involving the handling or disposition (other than is included in the term
"industry" as defined herein) of any article, substance or commodity for profit or
livelihood, including, in addition, office buildings, offices, garages, outdoor
advertising signs and outdoor advertising structures, automobile camps, automobile
courts, and recreational and amusement enterprise's conducted for profit, but not '
including 'gunk yards.
SECTION 18: Center line: The center line of a street, as referred to in
-any zoning ordinance, shall mean the center line thereof as established by the
County Surveyor of the County or by the City Engineer of any city within the County
or by the Division of. 'Highways of the Department of Public Works of the State of '
California. If no such center line has been established, the 'center line of a' `
street shall be a line lying midway between the side lines of the right of way thereof.
•In any case in"which the foregoing definition is not applicable, the Planning Commiss—
ion
ommis —ion shall designate the center line. -- '
SECTION 19. Court: An dpen, unoccupied,space, other than a yard, on the
same lot with a building or buildings and which is -bounded-on two (2)-or more sides
by such building or buildings, including ,the open space in a house court or court,
apartment providing access to the units thereof.
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SECTICN "20i nistrict
1:
ion of the unincorporated territory-of=`the. ounty-''withi:n.which. ."
under the'terms 'of any' zoning ordinance, certain uses of•land,. premises and buildin ga
are permitted and certain _other, uses-of land, premises and buildings are not permit —
ed and within whic*ertain yards and other open spaces are required-and certain. .
` buiiding site areas are established and certain height limits are established for
' buildings.
2`. A portion of the unincorporated territory of the County within which are
applied certain regulations designated as combining regulations as set forth in
any zoning ordinance. --
SECTION 21: 'Dwelling, One—Family:
A detached building designed for and/ or occupied exclusively by one family.
SECTION 22: Dwelling Two—Family: A detached building designed for and/ or oceupi.d
exclusively by two families living Independently of each other.
SECTION 23: Dwelling—Multiple: A building or portion thereof used and/ or de—
signed as a residence for three or more families living independently of each
'other, and doing their own cooking in said building, including apartment houses,
apartment hotels and flats, but not including automobile courts.
SECTION 24: Dwelling Group: A group of two or more detached or semi—detached
one—family, two-family or multiple dwellings occupying a parcel of land in one
ownership and having any yard or court in common, including house courts and apart—
ment courts, but not including automobile courts,
SECTION 25: FAmily: One or more persons occupying a premises and living as a
single, non—profit housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group oasging a hotel
club, fraternity, or sorority house. A family shall be deemed to include
necessary servants.
SECTION 26: Front Wall: The wall of the building or other structure nearest
the street upon which the building faces, but excluding such architectural
features as may be specified in any zoning ordinance as being so 'excluded.
SECTION 27: Garage, Private: An accessory building for only the storage of self-
propelled vehicles.
SECTION 28: Garage, Public: Any premises, exapt those herein defined as a private
or storage garage, used for the storage and/ or care of self—propelled vehicles or
where any such vehicles are equipped for operation or repair, or kept for remunerat-
ion, hire or sale.
' BECTIO14 29: Garage, Storage: Any premises, except those herein defined as a.
private garsge; used exclusively for the storage of self—propelled vehicles.
SECTION 30: Grade:
1. For buildings adjoining one street ohly, the elevation of the sidewalk at
the center of that wall adjoining the street.
2. For buildings adjoining more than one street, the average of the elevation
of the sidewalks at the centers of all walls adjoining streets.
3. For buildings having no wall adjoining the street, the average level of' th
finished surface of the ground adjacent to the exterior walls of the buildings. • -
4.
All walls approximately parallel to and not more than five (5) feet from*
-' the street 'line shall be� considered as adjoining the street.
SECTICN".31: Guest Room: A room which is intended, arranged or designed to be
�' occupied or. which ISP
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is made for:cooking and not including dormitories, for sleeping purposes.
SECTION-32:.,-4eip:ht of,Buildink: The vertieal,distan ce'from the'iverege'level'
of the highest and lowest point of that portion. of ..the-Lot covered by the building
to the ceiling of the topmost story. .
SECTION 33: Home Occupation: Any.use customarily:oonducted entirely within a " .
dwelling and carried onbythe inhabitants thereof, which ilse is clearly incidental
and secondary to the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes and does not change '
the character thereof. Clinics, hospitals, barber shops, beauty parlors and anima
hospitals shall not be deemed to be home occupations.
SECTION 34: House Court: See Dwelling Group.
SECTIO14 35: Hotel: Any building or portion thereof containing six (6) or more '
guest rooms used, designed or intended toIbe used, let or hired out to be occupied,
or which are occupied -by six (6) or more individuals 8r compensation, whether the
compensation be' paid directly or indirectly.
SECTION 36: Industry: The manufacture, fabrication, reduction or destruction of an,
article, substance or commodity, or any other treatment thereof in such amanner
as to change the form or character thereof, including, in addition, the following :
animal hospitals; bottling works; building materials or contractors yards; -cleaning
and dyeing _establishment s; creameries; dog pounds; gunk yards; laundries; lumber
yards; milk bottling or distributing stations; stockyards; storage elevators; truck
storage, service or repair; warehouses; and wholesale, storage.
SECTION 37: Junk Yard: The use of more than two hundred (200) square feet of the
area of any lot or of any portion of th athalf of any lot, but not exceeding a depth
or width, as the case may be, of one hundred (100) feet, which half adjoins any '
street, for the storage of junk, including scrap metals or other scrap material,
and/ or for the dismantling'or "wreaking" of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery;
provided, however, that this definition shall not be-deemed to include any case of
any of the foregoing uses which is accessory and incidental to any agricultural use.
SECTION 39: Lot: Land occupied or to be beoupied by a building and its accessory
buildings, . or by a dwelling group and its accessory buildings, together with such
open spaces,as may be required under the provisions of any zoning ordinance, haviry.
not less than the minimum,area required by such ordinance for a building site in the
district in which such lot is situated, and having its principal frontage on a street .
SECTION 39: Lot, Corner: A lot situated at the intersection of two or more streets
or bounded on two or more adjacent sides by street lines.
SECTION 40:. Lot, Interior: A lbt other than a cornerlot.
SECTION 41: Lot , Key: The first lot to the rear of a corner lot, the front line
of which is a continuation of the side line of the corner lot, exclusive of the widt
of any alley, and fronting on the street which intersects or intercepts the street
upon which the corner lot fronts. '
RECTION 42: Lot Area' The total horizontal area included within lot lines, includ-
ing one-half (1/2) the width,'but not to exceed ten, (10) feet, of any alley or. .
portion thereof abutting any such lot line.
SECTION 43 Lot Depth: The average distance from the street line of the Lot to it.
rear line measured in the general direction of the side lines of the Lot.
SEDTION 44: Lot Frontage: That dimension of a lot or portion of a lot abutting
on a street,. except`the, side of a'corner lot.
SECTION 45 Lot. Line: The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
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SECTION 46: Lot Line, <Rear: Ordinarily,'that line of a lot which is generally
opposite the-lot" line .along thefrontage,of. said"Lot' In'any case in which this"
definition is not applicable, the,Planning Commission shall designate the rear lot
line. .
SECTION 47 "atural Production Use: Any of the following uses: Agriculture,
mining, production, storage or distribution of water supplies; cutting and splittin
' of•wood; extraction of.minerals, building and construction materials or other_ natur 1
materials.
SECTION 49: Non-Conforming Use: A building or land occupied by a use that does
not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is situated.
' SECTION 49: One Ownership: 'Ownership of property (or possession thereof under a
contract to purchase or under a lease the term of vhich is not less than ten years)
by a person or persons, firm, corporation, or partnership, individually, jointly,
in common, or in any other manner whereby such property is under tingle or unified
control, The term "owner" shall be deemed to mean the person, firm, corporation,
or partnership exercising ohe ownership as herein defined.
SECTION 50: Outdoor advertising sign: Any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted;
glass, wooden, plaster, stone, or other sign of any kind or character whatsoever
placed for outdoor advertising purposes on the ground or on any tree, wall, bush,
rock, post, fence, building, structure, or thing whatsoever. The term "placed"
as used in the definition5of "Outdoor advertising sign" and "outdoor advertising
structure" shall include erecting, constructing, posting, palnting; printing,
tanking, nailing, glueing, sticking, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or
making visible in any manner whatsoever.
SECTION 51. Q,tdoor Advertising Structure: any structure of any kind or oharaet-
er erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any outdoor
advertising sign may be placed, including also outdoor advertising statuary.
SECTION 52: Small Livestock Farming: •The raising and/ or keeping of more than
twenty-four fowl of any kind and/ or twenty-four rabbits or twenty-four similar
animals or any goats, sheep or similar livestock; or the raising and/ or keeping
for commercial purposes of any cats or dogs; provided that the term "small live
stock farming" as used in this ordinance shall not include hog farming; dairying
or the raising and/ or keeping of horses, mules, or similar.livestock.
SECTION 53: Stable , Private: An accessory building where not more than three (3)
horses are kept.
' SECTION 54: Stable, Public: A stable other than a private stable or with capacity
for more than three (3) horses.
SECTION 55: Story: That portion of a building included between the surfae ei
of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor ,
above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
SECT ICN Story, Half: A story with at least two (2) opposite exterior sides
meeting a sloping roof more than two (2) feet above the floor of such property.
SEDTION 57. Street: A public or private thoroughfare which affords the principal
means of access to abutting property, including avenue, place, way, drive, lane,
boulevard, highway, road and any other thoroughfare except an alley, as-defined
herein.
SECTION 58: Street Line: The boundary between a street and abutting prpperty.
SECTION 59: Structure: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requirai
location on the ground or attachment to something having location on the ground.
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SECTION 60. •$tructural Alterations., Any, change. in the supporting members of�a
r.:l,it:
building,. such as bearing walls,."columns, beams or gird6rs.
SECTION 61. Use. The purpose�Por which land'or premises or w building thereon'2is
designed, arranged or, intended'or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained'.
SECTION 62: Use, Accessory: A use incidbntal and accessory to the principafiuse'
of a lot and located thereon or to the principal use of a building bmated on the sam
lot as the accessory use.
SECTION 63: Yard An open space other than a court on the same lot with a buildln
which open space is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as
otherwise provided in any zoning ordinance. In measuring a yard, as hereinafter
provided, the line of a building shall be- deemed to mean a line'paral lel to the" '
nearest lot line drawn through the point of a building or the point of a dwelling
group nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the respective architectural features
enumerated in any zoning ordinance as not to be considered in measuring yard dimen—
sions or as being permitted to extend into any front or rear yard.
SECTION 64: 'Yard, Front : A yard extending across the front of the lot between
the inner side yard lines and measured from the front line of the Lot to the nearest
line of the building; provided, however, that if any Official Plan Line is establish
for the street upon which the lot faces or if any future width line is specified
therefor by the provisions of any zoning ordinance, then such measurement shall be
tin from such official Plan Line or such future width line to the nearest line of
the building.
SECTION 65: YARD, REAR: A yard extending across the full width of the lot and
q:easured between the rear line of the Lot and the nearest line of the building.
^ SECTION 66: Yard, Side: A yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest
line of the building and extending from the front line of the lot to the rear yard.
SECTION 67: Zoning Ordinance: Any ordinance of the County adopting a zoning plan
or part thereof for any portion of the unincorporated territory of the County or an
ordinance of the County relating to any such plan or part thereof.
SECTION 6E: This ordinance shall be known and cited as the zoni:g Definitions
Ordinance of the County of Oontra Costa.
SECTION 69. REPEAL OF ORDINANCE NO. 254: Ordinance No. 254 entitled "An Ordinance
of. the County of Cohtrn Costa, State of California, Defining the Terms used in any
Ordinance Adopting a Zoning Plan or any Part thereof for any Portion of the Unincor—
porated Territory of-said County" passed by the Board of Supervisors November 1, 1937
is hereby repealed. '
SECTION 70: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the
21st day of January, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after
the date of its adoption, the same shnllbe published with the names of the members
voting for 'and against the same in The Contra Costa Standard, a newspaper of general '
circulation printed and published in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the 20th
day of December, 1937, by the following vote: _.
c Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
'.` Noes: None. Absent : None.
W.J.Buchanan
Chairman EP,the Board of Superyisors
ATTEST: S.C. WELLS, of the bounty of .Contra Costa;.'Stat
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of Cali.f,orni.a,• _
of the Board of Supervisors of, the
County of Contra;Costa. "State of -
California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 259. 7
„CONTRA COSTA COUNTY 'ZONING PROCEDURE-'ORDINANCE.--
AN OPOINANCE,
ROCEDURE,ORDINANCE.AN_'ORDINANCE'OF THE COUNTY OF-CONTRA .COSTA`, STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
PRESCRIBING THE PRQCEDURE WHICH SHALL GOVERN IN'CONNECTION WITH ANY
; ZOMING„PLAN OR PART THEREOF WHICH MAY BE'ADOPTED"FOR ANY PORTION
""OF'.THE 'UNINCORPORATEb TERRITORY OF SAID COUNTY. AND IN CONNECTION
WITH A14Y ORDINANCE RELATING THERETO, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 255,•
The Board of Supervisors of the Oounty of Contra Costa, State of California,
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do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: The procedure prescribed in this ordinance shall govern
in oonnection ,with any zoning plan or part thereof which may be adopted for any
' portion of the unincorporated territory of ths, County of Contra Costa, State of
California, and .in connection with any ordinance relating thereto. The term "zoning
ordinance” as used in this ordinance shall mean any ordinance adopting any such zona g
plan or part thereof or any ordinance relating thereto.
SECTION 2: EFFECT OF. ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS: In any district establish
ed:ty any zoning,ordinance the following provisions shall apply insofar as any of thl
regulations referred to in said provisions are specified in such zoning ordinance
as applying in such district:
(a) No building shall be erected, reconstructed, structurally altered, added
to, enlarged or moved, nor shall any land, building, or premises be used, designed
or.intended to be used. for any purpose or in any manner other than is included among
the uses listed in such zohing ordinance as permitted in such district.
(b) No building shall be erected, reconstructed or structarAlly altered to� exceed in height the limit designated In such zoning ordinance for such district.
(c) No building shall be erected, nor shall any existing building be alter-
ed, added to, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any open spaces except in conformity
to the yard, building; site area and building location regulations designated in such
zoning ordinance for such district.
(d) No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose
of complying with the provisions of any zoning ordinance shall be considered as pro-
viding a yard or open space for any other building, and no yard or other open space
in one lot shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for a building
on any other lot.
SECTION 3: DISTRICT BOUNDARIES: Where uncertainty.exists as to the boundaries of
any district established by any zoning ordinance, the following rules shall apply:
' (a) Where such boundaries are indicated as approximately following street
and. alley lines, such street and alley lines shall be construed to be such boundarie .
(b) Where such boundaries are indicated as approximately following lot lines,
sueh •lot lines shall be construed to be such boundaries.
(e) In. subdivided property or where a district boundary divides a lot,
' the ,looRtion of any such boundary, unless the same is indicated by dimensions shown
on a Map designating such boundary, shall be determined by the use of the scale
appearing on. such map.
(d) In case further uncertainty exists, the Planning Commission, upon writte
application or upon its own motion, shall..determine the location of such boundaries.
i BECTIO144: Non-Confarming Uses:. Except as otherwise provided in this section,
the lawful use of land existing at the:time of the adoption of any zoning ordinance
although such use does not -conform to the regulations specified by such ordinance
for the distriet ,in which such land is located, may be ,eontinued; provided however,
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that no such con-conforming use be extended- to. ccupy__a`_greater area of land than
than.occupied by such use'-at the:.time of;:the.'adoption--of-such ordinance; provided,
furth er, that if any such non-conforming use ceases, any subsequent use of such:land
shall be in conformity to the regulations specified by such ordinance for the dis-
trict -in which such land is located.
Except as otherwise provided in this section;"the lawful use of a building
: existing at the time of the adoption of any zoning ordinance may be continued, '
although such use does not conform to the regu]ations specified by suctbrdinance
for the district in which such building is located. Any such use'-may be extended
throughout the building provided no structural alterations except those required
by law or ordinance are made therein. If no structural alterations are made, '
the non-conforming use of a building may be changed to another non-conforming
use, which, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, is of the same or of a more
restricted nature. If a none-conforming use of a building ceases for a continuous
period of not less than six- (6) months, any future use of said building shall be
in conformity to the regulations specified by such zoning ordinance for the district
In w hide such building. is located. If any non-conforming building is hereafter
removed, the subsequent use of the land on which such building was located shall be
in conformity to the regulations specified by such zoning ordinance for the district ,
in which located.
No existing building designed, arranged, or intended for or devoted to a bse
not permitted under the regulations specified by any zoning ordinance for the district
In which such building or premises is located shall be enlarged, extended, reconstruct-
ed-or structurally altered unless such use is changed to a se '
Y g R �rmitted under the
-regulations specified by such ordinance for such district in which said building is
located; provided, however, that work done in any period of twelve (12) months on
ordinary structural alterations or replacements of walls, fixtures, or plumbing
not exceeding twenty-five (25) per cent of the building's assessed value according
to the assessment thereof by the Assessor of the County for the fiscal year in which
such work is done shall be permitted, provided, that the cubical contents of the
building as it existed at the time of the passage of such zoning ordinance be not
increased.
If at any time any building in existence or maintained at the time of the
adoption of any zoning ordinance, which does not conform to the regulations •for-•the
district in which it is located, shall be destroyed by fire, explosion, Act of God
or Act of the public enemy)bo.the extent of more than seventy-five (75) per cent of '
the assessed value thereof according to the assessment thereof by the. said Assessor
for the. fiscal year during twhdch such destruction occurs, then without further action
by the Board of Supervisors -thesaid building and the land on 411ch said building'
was located or maintained shallfrom and after the date of such destruction be subject '
to all the regulations specified by such zoning ordinance for the district in which
such lard and building are located: -
she foregoing provisions shall also apply to non-conforming uses in districts
hereafter changed.
Nothing cottained in this Ordinance shall be deemed to require any change' '
in the plans, construction or designated use of any building upon which actual -
construction was lawfully begun prior to the adoption of any zoning ordinance
and upon which building actual construction has been diligently carried on. Actual
construction is hereby defined to be the actual placing'of oonstruction materials
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In,th6Ir.;peMame nt position fastened in'a p"ermanent .manner; except that where a
basement is:being excavated, suchexcavating shall be deemed to be actual> construoti n;
or where demolition or removal of an existing structure has been begin preparatbny.
to.rebuilding, such demolition or removal shall be deemed to be actual construction;
provided that in all cases actual construction work shall be diligently carried on
.until the completion of the building or structure involved.
' Regardless of any other provision of this ordinance, no junk yard, building
materials storage yard or contractor's yard which , after the adoption of any zoning
ordinance, exists as a non-oonforming use in any district established by such ordinance
shall continue as herein provided unless such dunk yard, building materials storage
' yard or contractor's yard shall, within one (1) year from and after .the date that
such use becomes a non-conforming use, be completely enclosed within a building
or within a solid fence, for which plans and sketches shall be submitted as provided
in Section 6 of this ordinance. All other provisions of this section shall apply.
to any such con-conforming use.
Regardless of any other provision of this ordinance, any use for which a
use permit is required dr for which a use permit may be granted, as provided in this
Ordinance, which use is existing at the itime of the adoption of any zoning ordinanc
In any district in which such use is specifically permitted subject to the securing
of a use permit, shall without further action be deemed to be a conforming use in
such district.
SECTION 5: BUILDING PERMITS AND PLATS: Building permits shall be obtained from
the Planning Commission or frau the officer or employee thereof designated by the
Commission for such purpose for such work and such classes of buildings and structur s
as may be designated in any zoning ordinance as requiring such permits in the distri t
in which such work and such buildings and structures are located or are to be locate .
Evory application for any permit required by the provisions of this section
shall be accompanied by a drawing or plat, in duplicate, drawn to scale, showing the
lot and building site, the proposed location of the building on the Lot, accurate
dimensions of the building, of the yards and of the lot , and such other information
as may be necessary to the enforcement of this ordinance. A careful record of
the original copy of such application and plat shall be kept in the office of the
Planning Commission and the duplicate copy shall be kept at the building at all time
during construction.
SECTION 6: •ARCHITECTURAL SUPERVISION.
' In• case an application is made for a permit, as required in Section 5 of this
Ordinance, for any building, structure or other improvement in any district establia -
ed by any zoning ordinance and specified therein as coming uner the provisions of,
this section, said application..shall be accompanied by drawings or sketches showing
' - the front,,sides andrearelevations of the proposed building; structure or other
improvement,•. or of the building, structure or other improvement as the same will
appear after the work for which the permit is sought shall have been completed.
Such drawings or sketches shall be considered by the Planning Commission in an endeavor
to provide that such buildings, structures and other improvements shallbe so designeii
and donstructed,.that they .will not be of unsightly., undesirable or obnoxious n.ppear-
anoe to the extent that. they will hinder the orderly and harmonious development of
the is ounty, impair the desirability of residence, investment or occupation .in the
County as appearing to travelers gassing through or traveling in the County, limit
the opportu riity�to attain the optimum use and yalue'of land and improvements, impar
the desirability of living conditions in the same"or Adjacent agricultural:or resi-
dential areas;and/ or otherwise adversely affect the general prosperity and welfare
To this end, the Planning Commission shall suggest any changes in the plans of such
proposed buildings, structures and other improvements awhich it may deem to be
necessary to accomplish the purpose of this section`ashallnot approve any such plans
untly" is satisfied that such purposes will be accomplished thereby. In case the,
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applicant is not satisfied withthe action of the Planning,Commission, he may, within
thirty (30) days after such action, appeal in writing to the Bonrd of Supervisors.
Said Board shallhold a hsaring ,'on said appeal and shall render its decision thereon
within thirty (30) days after the filing thereof. No permit, as provided herein, '
shall be issued unless the plans filed with the application therefor as required
in this section shall first have been approved by the Planning Commission or by the
board of Supervisors. Upon such approval the Planning U ommission, or such officer
or employee thereof as said Commission may designate for such purpose, shall issue
such permit, provided all other provisions of law have been complied with. Every
drawing or •sketch filed under the provisions of this section shall become a part
of the permanent Yecords of the Planning Commtssion.
SECTIO14 7: CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANUY:•
No vacant land uhich is located in any district established by any zoning
ordinance and which is specified in such ordinance as requiring certi•fieates of
occupancy shall hereafter be occupied or used, except for agricultural uses, and
no building hereafter erected, structurally altered or moved, for which building ,
a permit is requirod under the provisions of Section 5 of this ordinance, shall be
occupied or used until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued by the
Planning Commission or by such officer pr employee thereof as the Commission may
designate for such purpose.
Application for a certificate of occupancy for a new building or for an exist-
ing building which has been altered or moved shall be made at the same time as the
application for a permit for such building as required in Section 5 of this Ordinane ..
Said certificate shall be *Issued within three (3) days after a written request
for the same shall have been made to the Planning Commission or to said officer
or employee thereof after the ereetlon, alteration or moving of such building or par
thereof shall have been completed in conformity with the provisions of this ordinanc ..
Pending the issuance of such a eertifi site, •a temporary certificate of occupancy--
may be issued by the Planning Commission or by Said officer or employee thereof for
a period of not exceeding six (6) months during the completion of alterations or
during partial occupancy of a building pending its completion. Buch temporary
certificate shall not be construed as in any way altering the respective rights,
duties or obligations of the owners or of the County relating to the use or occupancy '
of the promises or any other matter covered by this ordinance, and such, temporary
a' certificate shall not be issued except under such restrictions and provisions as
will adequately Xnsure the safety of the occupants.
Written application for a certificate of oeoupanoy t)r the use of vacant land
or for a change in the.character,of the use of land, as herein required, shall be
made before any such land shall be so occupied or used, except for agricultural
purposes. .' such''a certificate of occupancy shall be issued within three (3) days ;
after the application therefor has been made, providedsuch use is in conformity
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WITH the provisions of this ordinance.
Every certificate of occupancy 'shall state that the building or proposed_
use of ,a building or land complies with all provisions of law and of all county
ordinances. A record of all certificates of occupancy shall be kept mn file in the
office of the Planning Commission and copies shall be furnished on request, to any
' person having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the building or land affected.
No fee shall be charged for a certificate of occupancy.,
No permit for excavation for any building shall be issued before application
has been made for a certificate of occupancy.
BECTIO14 B: ADJUSTMENTS VARIANCES AND APPEALS:
' The Planning Commission, subject to the approval and confirmation of the
Board of Supervisors in each case, as hereinafter provided, shall have power to grant
adjustments and variances in and to any of the provisions of any zoning ordinance
to the extent of the following; and no further;
1. To vary or modify the strict application of any of the regulations or
provisions. contained in such ordinance in cases in which there are practical diffi-
culties or unnecessary hardships in the way of such strict application.
2. To permit the extension of a district where the boundary line thereof
divides a lot in one ownership at the time of the passage of such ordinance.
Application for any adjustment or variance permissible under the provisions
of this section shall be made to the Planning Commission in the form of a written
application for a building permit or for a permit to use the property or premises
' as set forth in said application and shall set forth all details of the proposed
construction of- use. Upon receipt of any such application by the officer or employ-
ee of the Planning Commission designated in the rules of the Commission for such
purpose, such officer or employee shall set a time and place for a public hearing -
before the Planning Commission on such application. Such officer or employee
shall cause public notice of such public hearing to be given by causing one notice
thereof to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Canty at least
ten (10) days before the date of said hearing. At said hearing the applicant
shall present a statement and adequate evidence, in such form as the Planning Commiss-
ion may require, showing:
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1. That there are special:.cireumstanees or conditions applying to the land,
building or use referred to in the application.
2. That the granting of the' application is necessary for the preservation
and enjoyment of substantial property rights.
3. That the granting of the application will not materially adversely affect
the health or safety of persons residing or working in the heighborhood of the prop-
erty of the applicant and will not be materially detrimental to the public welfare
or injurious to property or improvements in said neighborhood.
?he Commission shall thereupon make its decision on the said application
and shall report such decision to the Board of Supervisors within forty-five (45)
days after the filing of the application.
In granting any adjustment or variance under the provisions of this section,
the Planning Commission shall designate such conditions in connection•thenewith,
as will, in its opinion;. secure. substantially the objectives of the regulationor
provision to which such adjustment or variance is granted, as to light, air and the
- public health, safety, morals, convenie nce.and general welfare. No permit shall be
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issued under ithe,provision a of this, section unless and"until a decision of the
Planning Commission, as .afore said; approving the .same, ''shall have been approved and
confirmed by the Board of Supervisors. In reportr.ng its decision to the Board of
Supervisors rthe Planning Commission shall report its findings with respect thereto
and all facts in connection therewith, and shall specifically and fully set forth
Any adjustment or variance granted and the conditions designated. Upon receipt of
such report, if the decision of the Planning, approved the grpnting of the appliaat- '
ion, the Board of Supervisors either shall, by resolution, approve and confirm said
decision, whereupon the permit as applied for may i:5sue; or shall refuse to approve
and confirm such decision. In all oases in which adjustments or variances are
granted under the provisions of this section, the Planning Commission, shall require '
such evidence pnri guarantees as it may deem to be necessary that the conditions
designated in connection therewith are being and will be complied with.
The Planning Commission shall have power to decide any question involving
the interpretation of any provision of any zoning ordinance.
Any person whois dissatisfied with any decision or ruling of the Planning
Commission may, within thirty (30) days after the date of such decision or ruling,
appeal therefrom in writing to the Board of Supervisors, who shall have power to
over-rule such decision or ruling.
SECTION 9: USE PERMITS:'
Use permits may be issued for any of the following in any district estab-
lished by any zoning ordinance:
1. Any of the uses or purposes for which such permits are required or per-
mitted by the provisions of any such ordinance.' '
2. Public Utility or public service uses or public buildings when found
to be necessary for the pblic health, safety, convenience, or welfare.
3. Commercial excavating of natural materials used for building or con-
structiop purposes.
4. To classify as a conforming use any institutional use existing in any
such district at the time of the establishment of such district..
5. To permit the bcation of miy of the following uses in a district
from which they are excluded by Lthe provisions of any zoning ordinance establishin
such district; airport, library, community center, church, hospital , institutions
of an educational, philanthropic or charitable nature, eemotery,crematory', mausoleu ,
and any other place Jbr the disposal of the human dead.
Such use permits shall be issued under the same procedure as that specifie '
in Section $ of this Ordinance for the granting of adjustments or variances, ex-
cept that:
1. No public hearing need be held thereon; provided, however, that the
Planning Commission may hold such hearings thereon as it may deem to be necessary;
and provided, further, that a public hearing shall ' be held on any application
for a use permit for the establishment of any use listed in the preceding paragrap
numbered 115511 of this section.
2. The findings of the Planning Corgmission, except as otherwise provided
r4 in thissection, need include only that the;establishment maintenance and/ or .con-
ducting of the use for which a use permit is sought will not, under the oircumstan
ces of the particular case, be detrimental to the heath, safety, morals, comfort,
convenience, or general welfare of persons residing or working in the neighbor hoo
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ase such use and will not, under the circumstances of the particular nase, be
mental to .thepublic welfare or injurious to property or improvements in said
neighborhood
3• Any proceedings to classify *certain uses as conforming uses, as provided
In this section, may be initiated by the Board of ,Supervisors or by the Planning
Commission, or by petition as hereihbefore provided.
' All other provisions of said Section g, including the designation by the
Planning Commission of any conditions upon which the use permit may be issued and
guarantees that such conditions will be complied with, ahall apply to the granting
of a use permit.
' Any use permitted under the terms of any use permit shall be established
and conducted in conformity to the terms of sixeh use permit and of any conditions
designated in connection therewith.
SECTIM 10: AMENDMENTS:
Any zoning ordinance may be amended by changing the boundaries of districts
or by changing any other provision thereof whenever the public necessity, and con—
venience and the general welfare require such amendment, by following the procedure
specified in this section. Said amendment may be initiated by:
(a) The verified petition of one or more owners of property affected by
the proposed amendment,' which petition shall be filed with the Planning Commission
and shall be accompanied by a fee of twenty—Five ($25. ) Dollars, no part of which
shallbe returnable to the petitioner; or by
(b) Resolution of intention of the Board of Supervisors; or by
' (c) Resolution of intention of the Planning Commission.
The Planning Commission; not later than at its next succeeding meeting follow-
Ing the filing of such verified petition or fallowing the ,adoption of such resolution ,
of intention, shall set the times and places for such public hearings thereon as may
be required by law, and shall. give such notice of such hearings as may be required.
by law, Such notice shall include notice of the proposed amendment. In case the
proposed amendment consists of a change of the boundaries of any district so as to
reclassify property from any district to any other district, the Planning Commission
shall give additional notice of the time and place of such hearings and of the purpose
thereof by:
1. Posting public notices thereof not less than ten (10) days prior to the
date of the first of such hearings along each and every street upon which the property
' proposed to be reclassified abuts. In case• a majority of the property proposed
to be reclassified has been subdivided into parcels of one (1) afire or less in area,
such notices shall be placed not more thanfive hundred (500) feet apart and such post
Ing shall extend along said street or streets a distance of not less than five hundre
(500) feet from the exterior limits of such properties as are proposed for reclass—
ifieation. In the case of all other property proposed to be reclassified such notices
shall be placed not more than one (1) mile apart. Each such notice shall consist
of the words •"Notice of proposed zoning change" printed in pldn type with letters
not less than one (1) inch in height, ,and in addition thereto a statement in small
type setting forth a general de script ion of the property-involved in the proposed chanp
ge,
of district, the time and place at which the public hearings on the proposed change
will be held and any other information which the Planning Commission may deem to be
necessary; and by
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2. aihing a postal card.''not M, •.not"less than ten days prior to the date'
of the first' ofsuch hearings to the owners of all property within the posting
area above defined, using for this purpose the last known name and address of such
owners as shown upon the records of the Assessor of the County.
No imperfection or irregularity In any of the said notices shall. invalidate
any proceedings for aandment of any zoning ordinance. '
Following the aforesaid hearings the Planning Commission shall make a report
of its findings and recommendations with respect to the proposed amendment and
shall file with the Board of Supervisors an attested copy of such report within
✓ ninety (90) days after the date of the tneetingfat which. said Commission set the
time s and places for said hearings. ,Failure of the Planning Commission so to '
report within said ninety (90) days shall be deemed to be approvalof the proposed
amendment by the Planning Commission.
Upon receipt of such report from the Planning Commission, or upon the ex
piratlon of sudh ninety (90) days as aforesaid, the Board of Supervisors shall set
the matter for public hearing after notice thereof and of the
pu g proposed amendment,
given as provided by law. After the conclusion of such hearing; the Board of
Supervisors may adopt the amendment or any part thereof set forth in the petition
or in the resolution of intention in such form as said Board may deem to be advisabl .
The decision of the Board of Supervisors shall be rendered within sixty (60)
days after the receipt of a report and recommendations from the Planning Commission
or after the expiration of such ninety (90) .days, as aforesaid.
Upon the consent of the Planning Commission any petition for an amendment '
may 'be withdrawn upon the written application of a majority of all the persons who
signed such petition. The Board of Supervisors or the Planning Commissirn, as the
case may be, may by resolution, abandon any pmeeedings for an amendment initiated
a- by its own resolution of intention, provided that such abandonment may be made only
when such proceedings are before such body for consideration and provided that
any hearing of which public notice has been given shall be held.
SECTION 11: FORD OF PETITIOJS, APPLICATIONS AND APPEALS.
The Planning Commission shall in its rules prescribe the form and scope of
all petitions, applications and appeals provided for in this ordinance, and of
accompanying data to be furnished so as to assure the fullest practicable presentation
of facts for proper consideration of the matter involved in each case and for a per-
manent record. Any petition for an adjustment or variance as provided in oection S '
of this ordinance, or for a use permit as provided in Section 9 of this ordinance,or
for an amendment as provided in Section 10 of this ordinance, shall !include a vera-
fieation by at least one of the petitioners, attesting to the truth and correctness
of all facts and maps presented with snid petition. Such verification shall be date
and attested before a notary public or before the County Clerk. '
SECTION 12: ENFORCEMENT, LEGAL PROCEDURE, PENALTIES.
All departments, officials and public employees of the County which are vested
with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shalt conform to the prlovisicns
of all zoning ordinances and shall issue no such permit or license for uses, buildirgs,
or purposes where the same would be in conflict with the provisions of any such
ordinance and any such permit or license, if issued in conflict with the provisions
of any such ordinance, shall be null and void. - -
It shall be the duty- of the Planning Commission 'to-'enforce the provisions
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of all.zoning. ordinances -pertaining to the erection,..construct Ion, reconstruction,
moving, conversion, 'alteration or addition to any building, or structure•.
It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of t}e County and of the officers of the
County herein and/ or otherwise charged by law with the enforcement of ordinances
of the County to enforce all zoning ordinances and all the provisions thereof.
ANy person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or other—
wise violating any of the provisions of any zoning ordinance shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pu nishable by a fine of not more than
three hundred (300) dollars or by imprisonment. An the Coilnty Jail of the County for
a term not exceeding three (3) months,or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such
' person, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be guilty of a separate offense
for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any zoning
ordinance is committed, continued, or permitted by such person, firm or corporation,
and shall be punishable as herein provided.
Any building or structure set up, erected, constructed, •altered, enlrged,
converted, moved or maintained contrary to the provisions of any zoning ordinance and
or any use of any land, building or premises conducted, operated or maintained con—
trary to the provisions of any zoning ordinance shall be and the same is hereby
declared to be un]a.wful and a public nuisnnoe and the District Attorney of the County
shall, upon order of the Board of Supervisors, immediately commence action or proceed
ings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment thereof in the manner provided
by law and shall take such other steps and shall apply to such court or courts as may
' have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate and remove such building or
structure and restrain and enjoin any person, firm, or corporation from setting up,
erecting, building, maintaining or using any such building or structure or using
any property contrary to the provisions of such ordinance.
The remedies provided fdr herein shall be cumulative and not exclusive. '
SECTION 13: INTERPRETATION OF ZONING ORDINANCE.
In interpreting hnd applying the provisions of any, zoning ordinance, they shal
be held to be the minimum requirements adopted for the promotion of the public health,
safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare. Except.as specifically provided
in any such zoning ordinance, it is not intended by the adoption thereof to repeal,
abrogate, annul or 196y way to impair or interfere with any existing provision of
law or ordinance, or any rules, regubtions, or permits previously adopted or issued,
or rdiich shall be adopted or issued pursuant to law relating to the use.of buildings,
or. premises, or relating to the erectiop, construction, establishment, moving, alter—
a.tion or enlargement of any building or improvement; nor is it intended by any -such
zoning ordinance to interfere with or abrogate or annul any easement, convenant or other
agreement between parties; provided, however, that in oases in which any zoning ordinance
' imposes a greater restriction upon the erection, construction, establishment, moving,
alteration or enlargement of buildings or the use of any such building or premises in
sdd several districts or any of them, than is imposed or required by such existing
provisions of. law or ordinance or by such ruffs, regulations or permits, or by suol "
easements, covenants, or agreements, then in such cases the provisions of such zoning
ordinance shall control.
SECTION 14: VALIDITY:
If any section , sub—seot'ion,; sentence, clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for
any reason held by a court o'f competent jurbdiction to be invalid, such decision
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shall 'not affect .the validity', of the remalning,fportions oY rthIs ordinance „ The
Board of Supervisors'hereby declares that it would? ave passed this ordinance and`
each section, •sub 'section , sentence', clause:.and phrase,he'reof;-"irrespective of; the
fact that any one_'or'more' sections, sub-sections sentsnce's,` clauses or phrases;'be
declared invalid.
-SECTION 15: REFERENCE: `
This ordinan ce '"'shall be known and cited as the Zoning Procedure.Ordinance '
of the County of Contra Costal
SECTION 16: REPEAL OF ORDINANCE NO. "255.
Ordinance No. 255 entitled "An Ordinance of the County of"Contra Costa, State
of California, Prescribing the Procedure which shall govern in Connection with any
zoning plan or part thereof�whicn may be' adopted for any portion of the Unincorporate
Territory of 'said County and in connection with any ordinance relating therpto'l pass-
ed by the Board of Supervisors November 1; 1937, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 17: _ENACTMENT:
This ordinance shall take effect and be 1n force from and after the 21st dsy
of January, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date of
Its adoption, the same shall be, published with the hamns of the members voting for
and against the -same in Pittsburg Independent, a newspaper of general circulation
printed and published in the County of'Contra Costa,' `
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa on the 20th
day of December, 1937, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trenbath. ' ,
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
ATTEST., S,C. WELLS, W. J. BUCHANAN
County Clerk and= ex-officio. Chaiiman d the Board of Supervisors of
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, the County of Contra Costa, State of
Calif ornia.
ORDINANCE NO. 260.:
AN ORDINANCE OF`THE COUNTY-OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA-
ADOPTING A`ZONING PLAN FOR CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE -UNINCORPORATED•
TERRITORY OF SAID COUNTY..
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California
do" ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Adoption of Plan: '
There is hereby adopted a zoning plan for certain portions of the unincor-
porated,.territory of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, as hereinafter
in this ordinance set forth, said zoning plan being .a detailed plan based on the
master plan of said County,and consisting of the establishment of.various districts
' 1 'within which certain regulations shall be in effect, all as set forth in this '
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SECTION 2: TERMS AND PROCEDURE:'
�t ••. 'The terms used in this ordinance shall have the meanings set forth in the
�.� zoning Definitions Ordinance of the County.of 'Contra Costa. The ,procedure under thi
y ordinance shall be in 'accordance 'with theprovisions',of' the Zoning Procedure Ordin
ance of"the Count ' of. ,'Contra. Costa and the
County provisions of this Ordinance, sha]1 be <
subject to the
� provisions .of said Zoning Proaedure'Ordinance.
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SECTION 3: ESTABLISHMENT (F DISTRIOrS:
The following districts' are herpby.establ`ished,,,As hereinafter set f rth:
R-1 Districts: One-family residence districts 1
,SECTION 4., DISTRICT BOUNDARIES:
All' that portion of the unincorporated territory of the County of dontra
Costa which lie s within that tract of 1a nd designated as "berkel ey Woods" and
' shown on that certain Map entitled "Map of Berkeley Woods, Contra Costa County, Cal."
",filed-November 21, 1917;; in the office of the County Recorder, of the County of
Contra Costa, State of California, in Vol. 16 of flaps, page 338, thereof, is hereby
designated and classified as constituting an R-1 District.
SECTI014 •5.1 REGULATIONS FOR R-1DISTRICTS
' The following regulations shall apply in all R-1 Districts and. shall be sub-
ject' to the provisions of Section,8 of this ordinance: '
(a) Uses permitted:
1. One-family dwellings.
2. Golf courses and country clubs.
3. Public parks and public playgrounds.
!!}} Crop and tree farming and truck gardening
5. Nurseries and greenhouses used only for the propagating and cultivating
of plants.
•6. Home occupations; provided that there shall be no external evidence
of any home ocoufation except a nameplate not exceeding one square
foot in area; and provided, further, that there shall be no red
illumination of any such nameplate.
7. Accessory buildings and accessory uses.
8. schools, libraries and churches subject to the securing of a use permit
in each case.
(b) Building Height Limit:
Two and. one-half stories but not exceeding thirty-five feet in height.
' (c) Building Site Area Required:
Each one-family dwelling, together with its accessory build ings, here-
after -erected, shall be located on a building site in one ownership having an area
of not less than five thousand square feet, provided, however, that any parcel
of land with an area of less than five -thousand square feet, which parcel was
under one ownership at the time of the adoption of this ordinance, when the owner
thereof owns no adjoining land, or which parcel is shown as a lot on any subdivision
map which is hereafter recorded in the office of the-amid Coainty Recorder after
approval of said •Fusap by the Board of Supervisors in the manner provided by law,
may be used as a building site for one one-family dwelling by the owner of such parce
of land or by his successor in interest, provided that all other regulations for the
district, as prescribed in this ordinance shall be complied with; provided, further,
that in lieu of the foregoing building site area regulations in any 'IR-1" district
in which there are also applied the regulations of any "B" district under•the pro
visions of this ordinance, eaehone-family dwelling with its aeoessory buildings
here&iter ereetod shall 'be .located on a building site in one ownership having an area
not less than that specified for such "B" district. Irmo case, however, shall there
be more than one dwelling on any one lot.
(d) Front Yard required
Each lot shall have a front yard not less than twenty-five feet in depth,
exoept -as otherwise specified for any "B" district, in--which such l•ot lnay be located; .
provided, however'$that in case .a building line for the street upon 'whlch any lot
facda is established by the Street and Highway Plan. gf the Master Plan of the
County or is specified by the provisions of this Ordinance, thenthe front yard on ,
such lot shall have a depth of not less than the distance from the street'line
specified for such building line.
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(e) Side Yards Required; ;;
Each lot; except as otherwise `sp reified for'any !'B°+distkict in which such r
lot is located, shall have side yards each having a;width'of not less than five feet;
provided, however, as follows:
1. On any parcel of land of an average width of less than fifty feet, whichw
parcel was under one ownership at the time of the adoption of this ordinance, when.
the owner thereof owns no adjoining land, or which parcel is shown as a lot on any. '
subdivision map ::,hick is hereafter recorded in the office of the said County Recorde.
after approval of said Map by the Board of Supervisors in the manner provided by law,
the width of each side yard may be reduced to ton per oentof the width of such parcel ,
but in no case shall the width of any such aide yard be less than four feet.
2. On. a corner lot adjacent to a key lot, the side yard on the street side ,
of such corner lot shall have a width in addition to that hereinbefore specified,
so that the total width of said side yard shall be equal to not less than forty
per cent of the front yard depth required for the lots to the rear of such corner
lot , to a maximum width of ten feet for such side yard, provided, however, *that this
regulation shall not be so applied as tc/reduce the buildable width after providing t e
required interior side ysrd, of any such corner lot to leas than twenty feet.
3. In case a dwelling is -ho located on a lot that the front or rear thereof
faces any side lot line, such dwelling .shall be not less than twenty five feet from
such lot line.
(f) Rear Yard Required:
Each lot shall have a rear yard of a depth equal to not less than twenty
per cent of the depth of the lot to a marcimum required depth of twenty five feet '
for such rear yard.
SECTION 6: BUILDING LINES.
Building lines are hereby established, as Uvwn on any map establishing dis—
trict boundaries and adopted as_a part of this ordinance.
In addition to any such brailding lines thus established, the following
specified building lines aro hereby established, such building lines, unless other—
wise specified, being measured from the property line on each side of the right of
way of the specified street or highway, end being external thereto; provided, howeve ,
that if any official plan line for any such street or highway is established by the
Street and Highway plan of the Master plan of the County, or if any future width
line is established therefor by the provisions of this ordinance, then such measure—
ment shall be taken from such .official plan line or such future width line. '
SECTION 7: FUTURE WIDTH LINES:
Future width lines are hereby established, as shown- on any map establishing
district boundaries and adopted as a part of this ordinance.
In addition to any such future width lines thus established, the following
specified future width lines are hereby,established, such future width lines, unless '
otherwise specified, being measured from the center line -of the specified road or
highway on each side thereof;
SECTIN E: GENERAL PROVISIONS AND EXCEPTIONS:'
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The regulations specified in this 'ordinance shall, be subject to the :follow—
ing provisions•.
(a) Use-
(b) Remi ht�:
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1: Forose the -purpose of 'computing.front
r,� ;?. • p p pu yard,dimensions the measurement shall
be taken from the nearest point of the front wall of the building to the street
line, except that the certain architectural features hereinafter'enumerated`.
shall not be considered in-making such measurements, to wit:
(a) Cornices, eanopies,eaves, or any other architectural features may extend
beyond said front wall a distance not exceeding two feet,- six inches.
(b) Fire escapes may extend beyond said front walla distance not exceeding`
four feet, six inches.
(C) A landing place or uncovered porch may extend beyond said front wall to a
distance not exceeding six feet, provided that such landing place or porch shall
have its floor no higher than the entrance floor of'the building. A railing no
higher than three feet may be placed around such landing place.
(d) The above enumerated architectural features may also extend into any
side or rear yard the snme distance that they are permitted to extend beyond
any front wall, except that no porch, terrace Or outside stairway shall project
more than three feet into any side yard and then, in the case of an outside stair-
way, only if the same is unroofed and unenclosed above and 'below the step's'tkp reof.
2. In anylln-1:11 district where twenty five per cent or more of the lots in
any block and located in the same district, exclusive of the frontage along the /
side of a corner lot, has been improved with buildings at the time of the passage
of this ordinance, and the front yards on such lots vary in depth to an extent 'not
greater than six feet, then the required front yard depth for such district shall
be disregarded in sunh block and in lieu thereof the front yard required on each
lot, in said block shall be of a depth not less than the average depth of the front
yards on the Lots on which are located such existing buildings, to a maximum
of fifty feet.
3. In case an accessory building is attanhed to the main building, it shall
be made 3tructurdlly a part thereof, and shall comply in all respect with tkr. re-
quirement s of this ordinance applicable to the main building. An accessory build ng,
unless attached to and made a part of the main building as above provided for,'
shall not be closer than five feet to the main building.
. A detached accessory building of not over one story and not exceeding
twelve feet in height may occupy not to exceed thirty per cent of the area of
any rear yard.
5. Detached accessory buildirgs in °R-111 districts shall conform to the
following additional regulations as to their locations upon the lot; provided,
however, that where, the slope of the front half of the lot is greater than one fo t
rise or fall in a distance of seven feet from the established street elevation
at the property line, or where the- elevation of the lot at the street line is fiv
' feet mr ,more above or below the established street elevation, a private garage
may be built to the front and side lines of the lot;
(a) In the case of an interior lot abutting upon one street, no detached
accessory building shall be erected or altered so as to encroach upon the front
half of the lot.
(B) In the case of an interior lot abutting upon two or more streets, no
accessory building shall be erected or altered so as to encroach upon the
one-quarter of the lot nearest either street.
(c) In the case of a corner lot abutting upon two streets, 'no accessory
building shall be erected or: altered so as to encroach upon the area between sue
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such ,a manner that each-of .such lines divides'the' lot into two"equal areas;
' provided;that on a corner lot adjacent ,to a,key lot no accessory building shall be
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located nearer to the street,' line _of.the, street•upon which such key lot faces
lrhsn a distance equal to the depth of front yard required on said key.lot.
'(D) In the ease of a corner lot abutting on more than two streets, no detach-
ed-accessory
etached•accessorybuilding' shall be erected.or altered so as to be hearer to any street '
line :than one-fourth the width or length of the lot.
(E) No detached accessory building shall be within five feet of the side
line of the front half of any adjacent lot, except as hereinbefore specifically
permitted. '
(F) Notwithstanding any requirements in this eaction, the foregoing rules
shall not require any detached accessory .building to be more than seventy-five
feet from any street line bounding the lot, and shall notrequire that that line of
any such accessory building wh ch faces toward any street and is nearest thereto
shall be nearer to the lot line opposite such street line than a distance of twenty
feet. ;
SECTION 9: Building Permits.
Section 10: ARCHITECTURAL SUPERVISION. •
SECTION 11: CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY.
SECTION 12: VALIDITY.
If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance
Is for any reason held by a Court of competent ,jurisdiction to be invalid, such '
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance
and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective
of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or
phrases be declared invalid.
SECTIQN 13 : E14ACTMENT:
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 21st 'day
of. January, 1936, and before the expiration of fifteen (15 ) days after the date of
its adoption,, the same shall be- published with the names of the members voting for
and against the same in E1 Cerrito Journal, a newspaper of general circulation
printed and published in the County.of Contra Costa.
Adoptbd,by the Board of Supervisors of`.the County of Contra.Costa, on the
20th day. of December, 1937, by the following vote: .
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
Chal man of the Board of Supervisors '
of.the County of Contra Costa, State
ATTEST: S.C.-WELLS) California.
County Ulerk and ex-officio Clerk.
„ of.the 'Board of Supervisors.
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1r rk+Yc # i ORDINANCE NO 261:
AN•;ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE No. 252 of THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE COMPENSATION
;;'; ,OF-=OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY OF ccNTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE.
F611"THE NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS, TERMS AND COMPENSATION OF
DEPUTIES'AND EMPLOYEES THEREOF, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES,
OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
' The Board of. Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows:
SECTION 2 of Ordinance No. 252 of the County of Contra Costs., is,hereby
amended to` read as follows; to wit
' 2. AUDITOR: There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Auditor '
the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by•the Auditor
and hold office at his pleasure and shall be paid salaries as follows: one deputy
auditor at a salary of two hundred and twenty-five (3225.00) dollars per month;
one deputy auditor at a salary of one hundred and forty ($140.00) dollars per month
three deputy auditors at a salary of one hundred and thirty ($130.00) dollars per
month each; one deputy auditor at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five ($125.00)
dollars per month; one deputy auditor at a salary of one hundred and five (0105.00)
dollars per month; and one deputy Auditor at a salary of one hundred and ninety-five
0195.00) dollars per month, one half of which latter shall be taken from the solar
fund and one-half of which shall be taken from the road fund of said county;
provided, further, that said Auditor is hereby allowed such clerks and employees
as he may deem necessary to appoint at a salary of Five 05.00) dollars, four ($4.0 )
' dollars, or three (43.00) dollars per day each; provided, however, that the amount
of such sAlaries and. oompensations paid to such clerks and employees on a per diem
basis shall not exceed the total sum of Twenty-three hundred ($2300.00) dollars
per annum.
All Ordinances, or.parts of Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance
. are hereby repealed, and provided, further,
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 17th
day of February, 1936, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after
the date of its passage the same shall be published with the names of the member's
voting for and against the same in the Antioch Ledger, a newspaper printed and
published in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa,'
on the 17th day of January, 1936, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long", Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
W.J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of Board of Supervisors
of Contra Costa County, State of
California.
ATTEST: S.C. WELLS, .
County' Clerk and ex. officio .Clerk
..of;the .Board of, Supervisors of..
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ORDINANCE NO. 262.
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION, LICENSING AND"REGULATION
OF PEDDLERS OF HAY, ,aRAIN, FEED, SEED, STRAW, FRUITS OR VEGETABLES,
GROCERIES, OF ALL KINDS, MEATS, FISH, EGGS, GASOLINE, OILS, AUTOMOBILE
ACCESSORIES, DRY GOODS, FURNISHINGS, .READY TO WEAR, CLOTHING, BOOTS OR
SHOES, CROCKERY, GLASS WARE, TIN WARE, HARDWARE, PAINT, SPORTING GOODS,
TOBACCO, SMOKERS' ARTICLES, CANDIES, CONFECTIONS OR BEVERAGES OR
DISTILLED WINES, MALT OR DISTILLED LIQUORS, BAKERY GOODS, AND JEWELRY
OR ARTICLES THEREOF, DEFI.NING SUCH PEDDLERS REQUIRING A PERMIT TO BE
FILED BY EACH SUCH LICENSED PEDDLER, EXEMPTING GROWERS AND PRODUCERS '
FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF 'SAID•ORDINANCE, PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF IN THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE
OF CALIFORNIA..
The.Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: It shall be unlawful for any person, firms, association or '
corporation, whether as principal, officer, agent, clerk, employee, or otherwise,
to peddle any hay, grain, feed, seed, or straw, fruits or vegetables, groceries
of any kinds, meats, fish, gasoline, eggs, oils, automobile accessories dry goods,
furnishings, ready to wear, clothing, boots or shoes, crockery, glass ware, tin ware
hardware, paint, sporting goods, tobacco , cigars, cigarettes, tobacco smokers' art-
ioles, candies, confections, or beverages or distilled wines, malt or distilled
liquors, bakery goods and JeWalry or any articles thereof, in unindorporated ter-
ritory within the territorial limits of the Uounty of Contra Costa, State of
California, without having first registered its, his, or her or their name, address
and occupation and procured from said•County of Contra Costa, a license therefor,
and without having filed a bond, and complying with all of the provisions contained
in this ordinance; the peddling of any hay, grain, feed, seed or straw, fruits or '
vegetables, groceries of any kind, meats, fish, eggs, gasoline, oils, automobile
accessories, dry goods, furnishings, ready to wear, olothing,boots, and shoes,
crockery, glass ware, tin ware, hardware, paint, sporting goods, tobacco, cigars,
cigarettes, tobacco smokers' articles, candies, confections, or beverages or dis-
tilled wines, malt or distilled liquors, bakery goods and jewelry or any articles
thereof, without complying with each and all of the provisions of this ordinance
applicable thereto, shall constitute a separate violationAor each day that such
peddling is carried on,
SECTION 2: The amount of any license fee imposed by this Ordinance shall
constitute a debt to said County of Contra Costa, and any person, firm, association;
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or corporation who engages in peddling without having registered and obtained a
license from said County thereof, shall be liable to a civil action brought in '
the name of the People of the State of California, at the option of said county,
and as_a cumulative remedy and in addition to any criminal prosecution, in any court
of competent jurisdiction, for the amount of said license fee imposed by the pro-
visions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3: It shall be and it is hereby made the duty of the Tax Collector '
of the County of Contra Costa, as ex-officio license collector, to receive the regi -
tration of all peddlers of hay, grain, feed, seed, and straw, fruits or vegetables,
groceries; of any kind, meats, fish, eggs, gasoline, oils, automobile accessories,
dry goods, furnishings, ready to wear, clothing, boots and shoes, crockery, glass
,•, ware, tin ware, hardware, paint, sporting goods, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes,
tobacco smokers' articles, candies, confeotions, or beverages or distilled wines,
malt or distilled liquors, bakery goods and Jewblxy, or any articles thereof,
and to prepare and issue licenses under this ordinance for every person, firm,
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assooiation,;,or-corporation liable for the payment of a license fee hereunder,
and who otherwise ,complies. with the laws of the State. of California, and to receive
the payment of sueh .a license fee and to account therefore, and set forth in each
such license the amount. of said fee, the.period of time covered by said license,
the name of the person, firm; association or corporation to whom the same is issued,
' the number and-,description of ,all vehicles used for said peddling and the location
or place of business, if any, .where.such peddling is to be oarried bn.
SECTION .4: After payment of the fee therefore, but only upon a showing
by the applicant that all laws of, the State of California, applicable to his busines
have been complied with, a license shall be issued; all licenses shall be issued
' as provided by Section 3356 of the Political Code of the State of California, and
as follows: The original license shall be delivered to the person, firm, association
or corporation to whom the same is issued; provided, that if one or more vehicle,
pushcart, wagon, automobile or truck is ttsed or operated for said peddling, then
a duplicate license is to be issued for each such vehicle, pushcart, wagon, automobile,
or truck, which duplicate license shall be attached or fastened thereto in a conspic
u ous place.
SECTION 5: No license granted or issued under any provisions of this
Ordinance shall be transferred in any manner, nor shall the same or any duplicate
thereof authorize any person, firm, association or corporation other than the one to
whom said license or duplicate was originally issued, to peddle any hay, grain,
straw, feed, seeds, fruits or vegetables, groceries of any kind, meats, fish, eggs,
gasoline, oils, automobile accessories, dry goods, furnishings, ready to wear,
' clothing, boots or shoes, crockery, glassware, tin ware, hardware, paint, or sport-
Ing goods, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco smokers' articles, candies, confect-
ions or beverages or distilled wines, malt or distilled liquors, bakery goods and
jewelry or any prtieles thereof, without the written consent of the Tax Collector
endorsed thereupon; provided, however, that prior to filing any application for
assignment or transfer of any license or duplicate, the applicant shall pay to said
Tax Collector a fee of fifty cents for* filing the same and which shall also cover
the assignment or transfer of the original, when granted, and an additional twenty-
five cents for the assignment or transfer of each duplicate of said license. No fee
paid in under any provisions of this Ordinance shall be returned in any event.
SECTION 6: All license fees shall be paid in advance for the term in any
license provided, in lawful money of the United State+f America, at the office of
' the Tax Collector of the County of Contra Costa, and shall be by such Tax Collector
deposited in the General Fund of said County. All assignment or transfer fees shall
be paid to said Tax Collector.
SECTION 7: Every person, firm, association, or corporation having a license
Issued under the provisions of this Ordinance and peddling thereunder shall keep suo
license posted and exhibited in a conspicuous part of any premises used by him for
.said, purpose and where any vehicle, pushcart, wagon, automobile, or truck is used
for peddling, there shall be attached thereto or in the possession of the driver
or operator thereof, a duplicate of said license; the original and/ or all duplicate
of any license issued shall be produced and exhibited whenever a renewal assignment
or transfer thereof is required, or whenever requested so to do by any person authoriz-
ed to issue ob inspect the same, or to collect any fee therefor.
SECTION S: It shall be lawful for every ;reace officer, health officer,
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agrioultural:'or'horticultural inspector or sealer of weights and measures of the
Uounty of Contra-Costa, or the State of California, to enter in. and upon any premise
mentioned in'thisOrdinance, at any time, for the purpose of inspecting the same, or
in order to examine and Inspect any vehicle, pushcart, wagon, automobile or truck')use
for the purpose for which every license is issued under this Ordinance. Every such
peace officer or any other officer or person hereunder authorized, may require anyone '
possessing a license herein provided to produce the same for inspeetion;should any
inBpeetion thereof be refused, then said license must forthwith be revoked if the
Board of Supervisors find, upon hearing the matter based upon a verified complaint
made by the-peace officer or other person authorized to make the inspection or collet
ion herein provided for, good cause thereof, and it is hereby made the duty of every '
peace officer, health offieer,agrieultural or horticultural inspector or sealer of
weights and. measures of the County of Contra Costa, or the State of California to
enforce this Ordinance.
SECTION 9; The conviction fine and/ or imprisonment of any person for
violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall not operate as a bar against
the County of Contra Costa, from collecting the amount of any license fee hereunder;
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nor shall the rendition of a ,judgment in a civil action in favor of said County of
Contra Costa, in the name of the People of the State of California, or otherwise,
for the amount of such license fee, operate as a bar to criminal prosecution for any
violation of this ordinance.
SECTION 10; Every person, firm, association or corporation engaged
in the business of peddling hay, grain, feed, seed, or straw, fruit or vegetables,
groceries of all kinds, meats, fish, eggs, gasoline, oils, automobile accessories,
dry goods, furnishings, ready to wear, clothing, boots and shoes, crockery, glass
ware, tin ware, hardware, paint, sporting goods, tobacco cigars, cigarettes, tobacco
smokers' articles, candies, confections, or beverages, or distilled wines, malt or
distilled liquors, bakery goods and jewelry, or any articles thereof, shall apply for
a license and shall pay a license fee of $250.00 per year, or $150.00 for six months,
for a license,to peddle same, a duplicate of said license shall be issued with a
charge of $20.00 per year, or $10.00 for six months for each additional vehicle,
pushcart, wagon, automobile or truck, more than one used or operated for said purpose
and by any peddler. The provisions of this section shall be subject in all respects
to the provisions of Section 4041.14 of the Political Code of the State of California
SECTIG) 11. No license shall be issued by the Tax Collector to any such '
peddler until and unless such applicant shall have first filed with the Clerk of the
Bard of Supervisors of the County of "ontra Costa, and the same has been approved '
by said Clerk, a liability insurance policy,or bond executed by the applicant as
principal, and a surety company qualified and authorized to do business in California
as sprety,. in the sum of $5,000 to adequately protect the interests of said County
and the public in the particulars hereinafter set forth; which policy of insurance or
bond shall bind the obligers thereunder that such applicant shall fullycomply with
the provisions of this Ordinance, and with the provisions of all other applicable
Ordinances of said County and statutes of the State of California, regulating or
concerning the sale of the commodities or products in this ordinance mentioned by suck
peddler and shall pay all judgments -rendered against such applicant for injuries
to persons and loss or damage to property resulting from the negligent operation of
the business of such peddler within said County of Contra Costa and shall pay all
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judgments reoovered by any person against said ipplicant arising out of any misre- .
presentation 'or deception practiced upon any person transacting business with said
applicant as such peddler within said county, and anypersoninjured by such neglige t
operation of said business or having a claim or cause of action as herein provided
shall have aright of action directly on said policy or bond.
' SECTION 12: For the purpose of this Ordinance, a peddler is hereby
defined to be and shall include every person, firm, association, corporation, part-
nership, or other point or singular enterprise engaged in by a person or persons
who without a regularly established place of business in Contra Costa County, travels
from place to place or who Me a stand upon any public street, road, highway or alley
' or any other public place, or upon or in any room or building or shed or in or upon
any lot or parcel of land not, owned or rented by him, and who solicits, trades, sells,
or offers for sale, any hay, grain, feed, seed, or straw, fruit or vegetables,
groceries of any kind, meats, fish, eggs, gasoline, oils, automobile accessories,
dry goods, furnishings, ready to wear, clothing, boots or shoes, crockery, glass wars,
tin ware, hardware, paint, sporting goods, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco
smokers' articles, candies, confections, or beverages, or distilled wines, malt,
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or distilled liquors, bakery goods, and jewelry or any articles thereof, or other
than in or upon a regular established place of business in Contra Costa County,
or who delivers any of said hay, grain, feed, seed or straw, fruits or veStab les
groceries of any kind, dry goods, furnishing, ready to wear, clothing, boots or
shoes, crockery, glass ware, tin ware, hardware, paint, sporting goods, tobacco,
cigars, cigarettes, tobacco smokers' articles, candies, confections, or beverages,
or distilled wines, malt or distilled liquors, bakery goods and Jewelry, or any
articles thereof, as agent or with knowledge of the fact that he is acting as agent
for any peddler thereof. The persogor firm so engaged shall not be relieved from
the provisions of this Ordinance by reason of association temporarily, with any
local dealer, trade, merohant, .or auctioneer, or by conducting any temporary business
in�conneotion with or as a part of or in the name of any local dealer, trade merchant,
or auctioneer.
SECTION 13: For the purpose of this Ordinance the term "regularly estab-
lished place of business" is hereby defined to be and shall include the place where
any person, firm, association, or corporation conducts an establishment having•a
permanent address regularly open for business as a hay, grain, feed, seed, and/ or
straw., or fruit and/ or vegetable dealer, and/ or dealer in groceries of any kind,
meats, fish, eggs, gasoline, oils, automobile accessories, dry goods, furnishings,
ready to wear, clothing,boots, or shote, crockery, .glass ware, tin ware, hardware,
paint and/ or sporting goods, or other articles in this ordinance hereinabove
mentioned from day to day during ordim ry business hours, with at least one person ;
on duty during such.hours for the bona fide purpose of and whose principal duties
are, the transaction of said business.
SECTION 14: The preceding Sections of this ordinance shall not apply to.. ..
any grower, or producer of any of the commodities specified herein who peddles
said commodities or products produced and/ or grown by him in the County of Contra
Costa except as in this section provided, such grower or producer shall be required
to obtain the grower's or producer's permit herein provided for, in the event he
shallpeddle or sell his products elsewhere than on the premises where the same are
produced or grown, but shall be entitled to such perd.t without the payment of
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said license-.fee, :provided, however, that such grower or producer shall first filei,);,
with the Tax Collector of the Oounty of Contra Costa, or designated representative_
of and by said Tax Collector in said County, Who are hereby authorized to issue such
grower's or producer's permit in connect ion with. his application for a permit and
affidavit setting forth his name and address, the amount and variety of produce
he proposes to sell, the place where said produce is grown or produced, and that said
produce was actually grown or produced by him. It shall be unlawful for any grocer
or producer in this section referred to, to peddle any articles herein referred to
without first having obtained a growerls or producers' permit as herein provided and
said permit shall at all times be exh21ted to any peace officer upon demand.
SECTION 15: The provisions of this Ordinance shall not apply to any person ,
firm, association, or corporation who is engaged in or who may be employed in the
hauling, transportation or trucking or other than the peddling business or who takes,
orders by sample, as a salesman for future delivery only to wholesalers or retailers
with established places of business in this County; provided that a ftil compliance
with all the laws of the State of California shall be made, and that all information
required to be furnished to any peace officer, inspector, sealer, or person authorize
to make any examination or inspection under any law or pursuant to the provisions
of this Ordinance, shall be furnished and shall include the original of every shipment
and the nemmes of the shipper and of the consignee in each case; provided also that
the operation of said or any hauling transportation or trucking business or of any
other business is not a part of the peddling business as in this ordinance defined,
or is not utilized as a subterfuge to evade the provisions .hereof, or of any law of
of the State of California; and for the purpose of this Ordinance, the term "hauling"
"transportation of trucking business" is hereby defined to be and shall be construed
as the conveyance from place to place of any articles of goods, wares, merchandise,
commodities, or supplies, including hay, grain, feed, and/ or straw, fruits,andi or
vegetables, groceries of any kind, meats, fish, eggs, gasoline, oils, automobile
accessories, dry goods, furnishings, ready to wear , clothing, boots and/ or shoes,
crockery, glass ware, tin ware, hardware, paint and/ or sporting goods, tobacco,
cigars, cigarettes, tobacco smokers' arpicles, candies, confections, and/ or beveragei ,
or distilled wines, malt, or distilled liquors, bakery goods and jewelry and/ or any
articles thereof, and articles of commerce and supplies of every kind, character and
description without, however, peddling, soliciting, trading, selling, offering for
sale, or in any other manner disposing thereof for profit or gain, while en routs ',
to or for the purpose of making any actual physical delivery thereof. '
SECTION 16: Every person, firm, association or corporation violatth g any of
the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conetlotion thereof shall be puhithed by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by impriso -
ment in the County Jail for a perUd of not more than six months, or by both sudh fine '
and imprisonment. Each day or fraction thereof, any person, firm, association, 'or
corporation shall be engaged in such business without a license shall be considered
as a separate and distinct offense.
SECTION 17; Any permit issued under and pursuant to the provisions of ttiis .
Ordinance shall remain in fovoe for, the period of one year, or six months as the case
may be, in accordance withthe license fee paid, from and after the date of its issuance,
dependent upon license fee paid hereunder, unless sooner revoked, and any person, firm
or corporation desiring to renew any permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this
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for the renewal thereof,; whioh applioation^,for renewal `shall ;be made in the same
mariner as for the issuance of said original permit.
SECTION 19: Any permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this Ordinance
may be revoked by the Tax Collector for any violation of the conditions of said permit i
or for any violation of this Ordinance by-the�holder of said permit; before any
' permit``ehail be revoked by the Tax Collector ,notice in writing shall be given to
the holder of said permit of the time and place of ,hearing the matter of the revocat-
ion of said permit, which said notice shall briefly state the reasons for revoking
said permit and shall be mailed to the holder of said permit at his place of '
busine13*a•'or residence as the same appears on his application for said permit;
and whenlsaid notice is to mailed the lax Collector shall have power upon hearing
the matter of the revocation of said permit, to revoke the same or make any order
inrthe premises as may be proper.
SECTION 19: • If any seotiCn, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance- is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decisions shall. not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Board of
Supervisors hereby declares that it would have passed this act and each section,
sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any
one or more other sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared
unconstitutional.
SECTION 20: This "rdinance shall be published for one (1) week in the
Crockett Signal, a newspaper of gener&1 circulation, published in the County of
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yontra Costa, State of •California,within fifteen (15) days after the date of its
passage, and shall take effect thirty (30) days after its passage.
The foregoing ordinance was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of
the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, held on the 7th day of
February',' 1939, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath. I
Noes: None-
Absent : Supervisors- None.
W.J. BUCKANAN,
Chairman.- i
ATTEST,: S.C.wells,
county Clerk and ex-offioio Clerk i
-of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of
California.
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rt AN ORDINANCE XWDING ORDINANCE NO. 252 of the COUNTY OF ? £�
CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, :REGULATING. THE
COMPENSATION OF dFFIOERS Of THE COUNTY OF-CONTRA`COSTA,
,. AND`•TO'-PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER, APPOINTMENTSi TERMS-AND
COMPENSATICN OF DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES THEREOF,"ANDRE.-
$EALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
TH ERE WITH.
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, State of California,
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 5 of ordinance No. 252 of :the County of Contra Costa, is
hereby amended to read as follows: to wit:
"5. TAX COLLECTOR: The Tax.Collector, Three thousand Five hundred:: ,!
(.$3,500.00) dollars per annum; provided that there shall be and-there is hereby .
allowed to the Tax Collector the following clerks, deputies and employees who shall
be appointed by the Tax Collector and shall be paid salaries as follows: One deputy
tax collector at a salary of two hundred and twenty-five ($225.00) dollars per mont ;
one deputy Tax Colleotor ,at a salary of one hundred and seventy-five ($175.00)
dollars per month, one deputy Tax Collector at a salary of One hundred and fifty
(0150.00) dollars per month; one clerk at a salary of one hundred and thirty-five
dollars($135.00)per month; one stenographer-Clerk at a salary of One hundred .
and twenty-five (0125.00) dollars per month; and such cgpyists and clerks as the
Tax Collector may appoint at a salary of Three and 50/100 ($3.50) dollars per day
or four and 50/100 ($4.50) dollars per day each; provided, however, that the tGtal
amount of: salary and compensation paid to such copyists and clerks shall not exceed
the sum of Six thousand five hundred seventy-five ($6,575.00) dollars per annum." ,
All ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance
are hereby repealed and provided, further, this Ordinanoe shall take effect and
be in force from and after the 6th day of May, 1936, hnd before the expiration of
t fifteen (15) days after the date of its passage, the same shall'be published with
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the names of the members voting for and against same, in the Contra Costa Standard,
a newspaper printed and published in the County of Oontra Costa.
Adopted by .the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County on 4th
day of April, 1936, by the following wte, to wit:
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Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
fW.J.Buchanan
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
+ . of Contra Costa County, State of
Calafbr rda.
ATTEST: S.C. WELLS,
4ounty Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of Contra
d, Cbsta County, State of California.
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`ORDINANCE'Tb PROHIBIT HALF' CIRCLE TURNS BY VEHICLES
TO EFFECT A CHANGE OF DIRECTION -ON' HIGHWAY:
ROUTE NO:. 75 at EASTERLY PORTAL OF THE BROADWAY LOW
LEVEL'TUNNEL, AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION
OF ANY OF THE PROVI SI OW HEREOF:
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California; do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: TURNING AROUND SO AS TO PROCEED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. '
It is hereby declared unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to turn such vehicle
in a half-circle so as to proceed in the opposite diraotion at any place within four
hundred feet easterly from the eastern face of the portal building located at the
eastern end of the tunnel constructed by Joint Highway District No: 13 of the
State of California, being on the California State -Highway Route 75, in said
contra Costa County, California,
Section II. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall, upon aonviotion�thereof, be punished by a fine not to exdeed five hundred
dollars (0500.00) 'or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a period of not to exceed
six (6) months or by both such fine'and imprisonment.
SECTICN III. This urdinanoe shall take effect and be in force from and
after the l8th'day of May, 1938, and within fifteen (15) days after its adoption
shall be published with the names of the members voting for and against the same for
one week in the Crockett Signal, a newspaper printed and published in the said Count
Of Contra Costa.
' The foregoing Ordtnanoe was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisor
of the Uounty of Contra Costa, at a regular session of said Board, held on the 18th
day of April, 1938,' by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Stow, Buchanan and Trembath. '
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
W.J. BUCHANAN
CHaiftgn of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
Attest: S.C.Wells,
Uounty Clerk and ex—officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
'County of Contra Costa,* State of
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ORDINANCE NO. 20.
AN:ORDINANCE,REGULAT3NG PAIXING UPON MARSHCREEK ROAD, A PUBLIC ', ,
HIGHWAY'OF'THE"COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA,- STATE OF;CALIFORNIA,
OUTSIDE OF INCORPORATED CITIES.
,,,,The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa, County, do ordiLn.as follows:
SECTION 1: It shall be unlawful for any person to park any '
vehicle for,-a longer period than fifteen (15), minutes between "No Parking" signs
on;the,north side of the Marsh Creek Road, for a space of Two hundred (200) feet
opposite the entrance to the.Marsh Creek Springs Park, or to park any vehicle east
or westof..said signs, or east of the "No Parking", sign at the entrance of said
Marsh Creek Springs Parlx, on the south side of Marsh Creek Road. '
SECTION II: "PARK". The Term "Park", as used in this ordinance shall
mean' to stand' a vehicle or allow the same to stand for a period longer than act:.
ually necessary for 'the loading or unloading of passengers or materials.
SECTION III. PENALTY. Any person violating any of the terms of this
Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be p•unishe
by s fine of not exceeding fifty dollars (550.00) or by imprisonment in the.County
Jill for not more than five (5) days; for the second offense within the period of
one year's time, by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by
imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than ten (10) days, or both; for the
third offense committed within one year, by a fine not to exceed five hundred
dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment fora period of not to exceed six (6) months
In the County Jail,-or by both such fine and imprisonment. ,
SECTION IV: This Ordinahoe 'shall take effect thirty (30) days after
the date of its adoption, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from
the.passage hereof shall be published for at least one (1) week in The Pittsburg
Post Dispatch, a newspaper printed and published in the County of Contra Costa,
State of California, together with the names of the members of the board of
Supervisors voting for and against the same.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Uounty of Contra Costa,
on the 16th day of May, 1939, by the following vote of the Board, to wit :
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Claeys, Buchanan and Trembath.
Nines: None.
Absent: None.
W J. BUCHANAN '
Chairman Board of Supervisors of
theCounty of Contra Costa,
State of California.
ATTEST: S.O, WELLS,
County Clerk and ex—offloio
Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors of the County of
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ORDINANCE NO. 266.
An ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 245 of the COUNTY
OF'CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED I'M
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA: COSTA, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, INSTHJCTING THE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
OF SAID. COUNTY TO PREPARE A ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN
AS A PART OF THE MASTER PLAN OF SAID COUNTY; APPLYING
CERTAIN REGULATIONS TO THE USE OF LAND, BUILDINGS AND
STRUCTURES AND TO THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION AND ALTERATION
OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND IMPROVEMENTS PENDING THE
' ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF A ZONING. OR DISTRICT-
ING PLAN: AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION
OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF".AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 247, ORDINANCE NO. 249, ORDINANCE NO. 253 AND ORDINANCE
NO. 2566.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa do ordain
' as follows, to wit:
ORDINANCE No. 245,- entitled "An Ordinance of the County of Contra
State of Californta,. instru cting the County Planning Commission of the said County
to prepare -a zoning or districting plan as a part of the Master Plan of said County;
applying certain regulations to the use of land, buildings and structures and to the
erection, construction and altwration of buildings, structures and improvements,
pending the adoption by the Board of Stipervisors of a Zoning or Districting plan;
and prescribing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions hereof", passed
and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the 14th
day of December, 1936, as amended-by Ordinance No. 247, passed and adopted by the
Board,of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the 19th day of March, 1937,
and as further amended by Ordinance No. 249, passed and adopted by the Board of
' Supervisors of the County ,of Contra Costa on the 7th day .of June, 1937, and as
further amended b; Ordinance No. 253, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa on the first day of November, 1937, and as further
amended by Ordinance No. 256, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa on the 6th day of December, 1937, is hereby amended by adding
a new section, to be designated Section 5 (g) which said Section 5 (g) shall follow
immediately after Section 5 (f) and which shall read as follows:
SECTI CN 1
Section 5 (g) Interim Land Use District No. Nine is hereby established,
consisting of the following described territory:
All thatportion of the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra
Costa, which is described as follows, to wit:
BEGINNING at a point at the fence. corner between the lands of Dukes,
' Rogers, and- the herein described property (said point being the N.E. corner of .
Lot 1 as shown on a map made by T.A. Tallyrand, County Surveyor,. on April 10th, 1069
and recorded); thence S. 270011 E. along the westerly boundary of Rogers property,
2626.2 ft. to station; thence S. 00031 W. along MoVicker's West line 664.5 feet to
northerly boundary of what was formerly the Geary ranch; thence S. 89056, W. along
the Norther boundpry of said Geary Ranch 4085.3 ft. to station; thence along the
fence line between the herein described property and the said Geary Ranch as follows:
s. 0010, W. 494.5 ft; •thenoe. S. 00031 W. 2357.8 ft. .to a point on the northerly
boundary of what is known as the Souza Ranch; thence S. 890321 W. along said north-
erly boundary 1307.2 ft. to station; thence west 'along said boundary 2905.0 ft. to
the .S.W. corner of the herein described property; thence leaving said no rthe rly
boundary of said Souza Ranch as follows: N. 70161 g. 1374.91 to station; thence N.
10:341 W. 734.6 ft. to station; thence N. 630121 E. 243.9 ft. to station; thence N.
650321 E. 1195.5 "to station, thence N. 4004l E. 360.8 to station; thence N. 42054,
E. 841.2 ft. to station; thence N. 37027.1 E. 406.1 ft. to station; thence N. 390051 E
139.1 ft. to station; thence N. 450251 E. 311.9 ft. to station; thence N. 530491
E. 3�j1..3 ft. to station; thence N. 420011 E. 771.1 ft. to station; thence N. 730311
E. 1610.3 ft. to station in the center of a 40 ft. road, thence N. 90341 E. 2931-
feet to the S.W. corner of the Fasohing Place; thence least along the southerly bound
arae s o_f Fasching and Dukes, 2099.0 ft. to point of beginning, contai ni rg an area of
-593.37 acres of land. Also a right of way at the S.E. corner of Lot 20 described as
follows. Beginning at a point on the center line of the Lafayette-Martinez Co. Road
at the N.E, cor. of said Geary Place; thence west along said Geary North line 829.0
ft; thence N. 00031 E. 30 ft. thence east 827.5 ft. to center of said Co. Road;
thence along said center line S. 20451 E. 30,03 ftp to point of beginning, containing
an area of 0.57 acres.
ALSO A PORTION of land adjoining Subdivision No. 1 of Brook-Wood Acres
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on the south,,End,East °boundarles described.as follows: Beginning at the N.E , corner
of:Lot, l2, (said point being also-the.S.E. corner of Lot ].1 as indicated upon the
"Map of Subdivision;No. 1 of Brook-Wood Aoreps filed April 22, 1913, in Book 9"of_
Maps, page 217,-in the office ,of the County Aeooider of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California;;thence-S.-00031 w... 664.5 ft. to station; 'thence S. 99056, w.
4,085.3:ft to station (said station being N.W. corner of-the Geary Ranch as delin-
eated on "Map of Subdivision No. 1 of Brook-wood'Acres");thence S. 0010, W. 4945
ft. to. station on East boundary of Lot 70: of Subdivision No. 1-of Brook-Wood Acres;
thence easterly on a parallel line with the North boundary of the Geary Ranch (said
boundar9 being indicated on the "Map �f subdivision No. 1 of Brook-wood Acres") to
the center line of the Lafayette-Martinez County Road; thence continuing along said
line, extended 500.0 ft. thence northerly 1100.0 ft. paralleling the centerline ,
of the Lafayette Martinez County Road; thence westerly to the point of beginning.
BEING a tract of land delineated and so designated upon that certain Map
entitled "!°ap of Subdivision' No. 1 of Brook-wood Acres" filed April 22, 1913, in
Book 9 of Maps, page 217, of the.'Copnty eoorder of the County of Contra Costa,.,
'State of California; together with the additional adjoining portion of land abae
described. _
SECTION II:.
This Ordinance is hereby declared to be an:-urgency measure and shall take ,
effect and shall be in full force immediately upon its adoption and within fifteen
(15) days. after said adoption shall be published with the names of the members votine
for and, against the same for one (1) week in the Contra Costa Standard, a newspaper
of general circulation, printed and published in said bounty. The conditions
constituting suoh_ urgency are as follows, to wit: Certain uses of land, buildings
and structures would, if established and conducted within any Interim Land Use
District established by this ordinance, be a menace to the public health, safety
and general welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby finds that various persons
intend to eredt buildings or structures and to use the same, and to use land for
such purposes, and will do so unless restrained therefrom, The immediate operation
of this Ordinance is therefore necessary in order to protect the public health,
safety and general welfare. '
The Foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by-the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, at a regular session of said Board, held on the 20th
day of June, 1938, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Claeys, Buchanan and lrembath.
Noes: None.
Absent:None.
w.J.Buchanan,
Chairman of the Bgard of Supervisors
of the County of ontra Costa, State
of California.
Attest
S.C. WELLS
County Jerk and ex-offioio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of. Contra Costa, State of
California.
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ORDINANCE N0. 267:
An ORDINANCE TO REGULATE"THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERSY
OF ,THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE
NUMBER-i APPOINTMENTS, TERMS, AND COMPENSATIONS OF
DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES .THEREOF: AND REPEALING ALL OR-
DINANCES, OR PARTS OF_ORDINANOES, IN CONFLICT THERM7ITH:•"
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State
California, do ordain as follows:
In the County of Contra Costa the county and -township officers,
deputies and employees shall receive as full compensation for all- 'services re-
quired of them by law, or by virtue of their office, the following-salaries:
' 1. CLERK. The County Clerk, Five thousand Dollars ($5,000,00) per
annum; -provided, that there sahll be and therd is hereby allowed to the County Oler
the following clerks, deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the County
Clerk arid. hold office at his pleasure, and shall be 'paid salaries as follows: one
chief deputy at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per
month two courtroom deputies at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) each
per month; one office deputy 'at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars 0200.00) per
month; one office deputy at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150,00)
per month; two office deputies at a salary of One Hundred and forty-five Dollars
($145.00) per month each; and one officer deputy at a salary of One Hundred and
Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per month-, provided, further, that in any year when
a General or Primary Election or a Special State or Oounty Election is .to be held,
' or the compliation of a registration of voters is required by law or supplements
to,be made thereto, the County Clerk shall receive for the hire of extra help for
compiling of such registration of voters and making supplements thereto, and work
incidental to said election, his actual expensee 'to be paid upon filing and pre-
sentation of duly verified claims herefor by the County Clerk or claims approved
by the County Clerk with the Board of Superivosors of said County, after proper
allowance of said claims by said Board of Supervisors; and provided, further, the
said County Clerk mpcyq appoint such number of registration deputies as may be
neoesea.ry• for the registration of voters in their respective preoeinots, each of
said deputies to receive the sum-of ten cents (100) per name fdr each elector
registered by him, .said registration deputies to be paid for their services on the
presentation and filing with the Board of Super]risors of said Oounty a duly
' verified claim therefor, on the general fund of said County, after proper allow-
anoe of said claim by said Board of Supervisors.
2. AUDITOR. There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the
Auditor the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by
the Auditor. and hold office at his pleasure and shall be paid salaries as follows:
' one deputy auditor at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00)
per month; one deputy auditor at a salary of One Hundred and Forty Dollars' ($140.00)
per month; two deputy auditors at a salary of One hundred and Thirty-five Dollars
($135.`00) per month each; two deputy auditors at a salary of One Hundred and
Thirty Dollars ($130.'00) per month each; one depdty auditor at a salary of One
Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($115.00) per month; and one deputy auditor at a salary
Of;One Hundred and Five Dollars ($105:00) per molith; and one deputy autitor at a
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salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00)• per month; one-half of which-latter..shall
be taken from the salary fund and one-half on which shall be taken from the road fuid
of said County; provided, further, that said 'auditor is hereby allowed such clerks
and employees as he. mtty deem necessary to appoint at a salary of Five Dollars
05.00), Four Dollars 04.00), or Three Dollars 03.00) per day each; provided,
however, that the amount of suoh salaries and compensations paid to such clerks '
and employees on a per,diem basis shall not exceed the total sum of Eighteen
Hundred Dollars ($1800.00) per annum.
3. TREASURER. The Treasurer, Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00)
per annum; provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the '
Treasurer the following deputies, clerks and employees who .shall be appointed by
the Treasurer and shall hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as
follows; one deputy treasurer at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars
($225.00) per month; one clerk at a salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100;'00) per
month.
4. ASSESSOR:_ The Assessor, Five. Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per
annum; provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Assessor
the following deputies, clerks and employees, who shall be appointed by the
Assessor and shall hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following
salaries: one chief deputy assessor at a salary of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars
($250.'00) per month, one land appraisal deputy assessor. at a salary of Two Hundred
and fifty Dollars ($250.00) per month, one improvement oaluation deputy assessor
at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month; one ,
improvement valuation deputy assessor at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.'00)
per month; two deputy assessors at a salary of One Hundred Eighty Dollars ($180.00)
per month each; one transfer deputy assessor at a salary of ORe Hundred and Fifty
Dollars ($150.00)per month, one exemption deputy assessor at a salary of One
Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per month; four field deputy assessors
to hold office not to exceed five months each in any one fiscal year at a salary
of One Hundred and 'Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month each, and such additional
deputy assessors, clerks and employees and the Assessor may appoint at salaries
of Ten Dollars ($10;00) per day, Six Dollars ($6.00) per day, Your and 50/00
Dollars ($4.50) per day, Four Dollars ($4.00) per day, and Three and 50/00
Dollars 03.50) per day each; provided, however, that the total compensation of
such additional deputy assessors, clerks and employees shall not exceed the sum '
of Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($6,530.00) per annum; and
provided, further, that the Assessor is hereby authorized to contract with an
abstract and title company for copies of transcripts of reoorddd instruments
affecting titles at a compensation of Forty Dollars ($140.00) per month.
5. TAR COLLEOTOR;_ The Tax Oolleotor, Four Thousand Dollars '
($4,000.00) per annum; provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed
to the Tqx Collector the following Olerks, deputies and employees who shall be
appointed by the Tax Collector and shall be paid salaries as follows: one deputy
tax collector at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty Five Dollars ($225.00) per
month; one deputy tax collector at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-five
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Dollars ( 175.00). per month; oris deputy tax collector at a salary, of One Hundred
and Fifty'oollars ($150.00), per month;. one clerk at a salary of One Hundred and
Thirty-five Dollars ($135.00) per month; one stenographer-clerk at a salary of
One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) 'per month; and such copyists and
clerks as the tax collector may appoint at a salary of Three and 50/00 Dollars
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($n,50 -per day or Four and 50/00 Dollars 04.50) per day each; provided, however,
that the total amount of salary and compensation paid to such c6pyists and clerks
shall not exceed the sum of Five Thousand and Five Hundred Dollars (95,500.00)
per annum.
' 6, DISTRIOT ATTORNEY There shall be and there is hereby allowed
to the District Attorney the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall
be appointed by the District Attorney and hold office at his pleasure, and who
shall be paid salaries as follows: one chief deputy district attorney at a salary
of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) per month; three deputy district attorneys at
a salary of Two Hundred and T wenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month each; one
deputy district attorney at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.'00) per month;
one detective who shall assist the district attorney in the detbotion of crime
and prosecution of criminal cases and in civil actions and proceedings and all
other matters in which the Oounty is interested, whose salary is hereby fixed at
the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month; one deputy
district attorney at a salary of OneeHundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00)
per month; one stenographer to the district attorney at a salary of One Hundred
and Forty-two Dollars (;1112.00) per month; two stenographers at a salary of Oiie
Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars (4125.00) per montheeaoh; and one stenographer
at a salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month.
7; OOROITER, The Ooroner, such fees as are now and may hereafter be
allowed by law, privided, however, that the coroner shall be allowed for general
services in holding an inquest the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.'00), and provided,
further, that there is hereby allowed to the coroner one stenographer whose duty
it shall be to act as reporter and take dorm in shorthand and transcribe into
longhand the testimony of the witnesses at all inquests, which stenographer shall
be appointed by the coroner and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid a
salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per month.
S. SURVEYOR. The Surveyor, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per
' annum, provided, however, that the surveyor shall not engage in private practice
of engineering or surveying, and provided, further, that there shall be and there
is hereby allowed to the surveyor the following deputies and employees who shall
be appointed by the surveyor and shall hold office at his pleasure, and who shall b
' paid salaries as follows: one ohief deputy surveyor at a salary of Three Hundred
Dollars( 300.'00) per month; one deputy surveyor at a salary of Two Hundred and
Sixty Dollars (0260.00) per month; two engineers at a salary of Two Hundred and
Twenty-five ($225.00) per month each; one draftsman at a salary of -Two Hundred
and Twenty-five Dollars ($225,00) per month; one draftsman at a salary of Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.'00) per,month; one instrument man at a salary -of Two Hundred
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Dollars 0200.00) per month;, twochainmen at-a. salary of One,Hundrad and Tliirty.-
five' Dollare ($135.00) per in nth 'each; .two rod men-:at a'salary'of One Hundred
and Thirty-five Dollars ($135.00) per, month each; one stenographer at a sala;ey
of Otte hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125,00) per month; provided, further,: ,
that the surveyor may employ additional chain-men�at a wage of Five and 50/00
Dollars ($5.50) per day, instrument men at Seven Dollars ($7.00) per day; drafts-
men
rafts men at Eight Dollars ($8.00) per day and engineers at Ten Dollars ($10.00) per .
day, when in the opinion of the surveyor such additional employees are neo aseery;
provided, however, that the total amount of compensation paid for such additional
employees on a per diem basis shall not in any fiscal year exoeed• the awn of ,
Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).`
9. CLASSIFICATION OF TOWNSHIPS,_ The population of the several
judicial townships for the purpose of fixing the compensation of township officers
shall be ascertained and declared by the Board of Supervisors in the month of
July, 1938, and in the month of July every four years thereafter as follows: said
board shall by order at a regular meeting determine the population of each town-
ship to be three (3) times the registration of legal voters on file Fuly first of
said year in each township, and every four years thereafter succeeding, and it
shall declare this sum to be the population of each township. Said township shall
further be classified as follows:
Claes 1--Townships having a population of more than twenty thousand
(20,000); '
Class 2--Townships having a population of from ten thousand and one
(10,001) to twenty thousand (20,000);
Class 3--Townships having a population of from seven thousand and
one (7,001) to ten thousand (10,000);
Class 4--Townships having a population of from four thousand and
one (4,001) to seven thousand (7,000);
Class 5--Townships having a papulation of from two thousand and one
i (2,001) to four thousand (4,000):
Class 6--Townships having a population of from one thousand and one
(1,001) to two thousand (2,000);
Class 7--Townships having a population of less than one thousand
(1,000).
10. JUSTICES QF THE PEACE. Justices of the Peace shall receive the '
following monthly salaries:
(1) In townships of the first class Three Hundred and Seven Dollars
($307.00) per month.
(2) In townships of the second class, One Hundred and Seventy-five '
Dollars ($175.00) per month.
(3) In t6wnships `of the third class, One Hundred and Fifty-four,
<, Dollars ($154.00) per month.
(�4) In townships of the fourth class, One Hundred and.Fifty-four
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(5) '. In townships of the fift%L class', One Hundred and Ten Dollars
($110.00) per month.
(6) In townships of the sixth class, Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per
month.
' (7) In townships of the seventh class, Twenty-five Dollars ($25,00)
per month.
It is further provided, that there shall be and there is hereby
allowed to each justice of the peaoe a sum not to exceed twenty percent (20%) of
' his monthly salary, for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his
office, payment of which amounts shall be made by verified claims after the close
of the month for which expenses were incurred.
(9) For purposes of this section the various dockets and legal
forms required by the justices of the peace for the conduct of their offices shall
not be deemed to be expenses of their offices, but such dockets and legal forms,
subject to the approval of the District Attorney, shall be furnished by the County
upon requisitions to the Purchasing Agent and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed
from a general fund appropriation for the purpose.
(9) It is further provided that justices of the peace of all town-
ships shall issue receipts for all money collected by them in the performanoe of
their duties.
11. SHERIFF. The Sheriff, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per
' annum; that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff the following
deputies, cl erks and employees who shall be appointed by the Sheriff and shall hold
office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries; one Undersheriff
at a salary of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per month; one deputy
sheriff at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars ($225.00) per month;
three (3) deputy sheriffs at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month
each; one deputy sheriff to act as day jailer at a salary of One Hundred and
Seventy-Five Dollars ($175.00) per month; one deputy sheriff to act as night jailer
at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-Five Dollars ($175.00), per month; two (2)
deputy sheriffs to act as bailiffs at a salary of One Hundred and Eighty-five
Dollar* ($155.00) per month each; Three (3) deputy sheriffs at a salary of One
Hundred and. Seventy-Two Dollars ($172.00) per month each; one deputy sheriff to
act as photographer at a salary of One Hundred and Sixty Dollars ($160.100) per
month; one deputy sheriff to act as radio technician at a salary of One Hundred
and Sixty Dollars ($160.00) per month; one deputy sheriff at a salary of One Hundred
and Sixty Dollars ($160.00) per month; two (2) deputy sheriffs at a salary of One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month each; one deputy sheriff to act as
' superintendent of the jail farm at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-Five Dollars
($175.00) per montj; one deputy Sheriff to act as guard at the jail farm at a
salary of One HuTidred and Fifty Dollars ($150.100) per month;, one secretary at a
salary of One Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($130.00) per mcnih; one jail matron
at a salary of One Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110.00) per month; provided, further,
that the sheriff may employ from one (1')-"to five (5) persons to act as deputy sheriff
at a salary of Your and"50/00 Dollars ($4.50) per day, when, in the judgment of the
sheriff, such deputies are necessary; provided, however, that the total amo#nt of
the compensation for such additional deputies to be paid per diem shall not in any
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Dollars ($900.'00); ,an d•provided,
further , that the sheriff may employ extra guards at the jail farm at a salagy
of Five Dollars per day, when, in the judgment of the sheriff, such guards are.
necessary; provided, however, that the total amount of the compensation for such
extra guards to be paid per diem shall not in any fiscal year exceed the total sum '
of .Six Hundred and Seventy Dollars 0670;00); provided, further, that the oom-
pensation of such last mentioned deputies and extra guards shall be paid upon
presentation of duly iftmized verified claims filed with the Board of Supervisors
of said county in the same manner that other claims are filed and paid.
There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the sheriff to be . '
by him retained for his own use all mileage for service of papers in civil actions
arising either in or outside of the County, excepting actions in which the county
is interested, and also all mileage in criminal cases for each mile actually and
necessarily traveled by automobiles at the rate of six and one-half cents (6�o�
per mile. All fees collected by the sheriff for the service of papers and pro-
ceases in civil matters shall be collected by the sheriff for the use and benefit
of the County, and shall by him be paid into the County Treasury at such times and
manner as required by law.
12. CONSTABLES. Constables in the several townships shall receive
the following salaries:
(1) In townships of the first class, the sum of One Hundred Eighty
Dollars ($190.'00) per month. '
(2) In townships of the senond Claes, the sum of One Hundred Eighty
Dollars ($180.00) per month.
(3) In townships of the third class, the sum of One Hundred Eighty'
Dollars ($180.00) per month.
M * In townships of the fourth class, the sum of One Hundred and
Eighty Dollars ($1$0.60) per month.
(5) In townships of the fifth class, the sum of One Hundred Eighty
Dollars ($180.00) per month.
(6) In townships of the sixth class, the sum of One Hundred Twenty-
Five Dollars ($125.00) per month.
(7) In townships of the seventh class, the sum of Fifty Dollars
(050.`00) per month.
It is further provided that constables in townships of the first, '
second, third, fourth and fifth classes shall receive the sum of Fifty Dollars
($50.'00) per monthv,.as and for the use of their respective automobiles in the .
performance of their duties as constables. Each such constable shall file a claim
on the first day of each and every month for the preceding month, and no allowance '
shall be made to any Stich constable for such use of his automobile unless such a
claim is filed by him as herein provided.
It is further provided that.no constable in the first five (5)
classes shall receive any mileage or expenses of any kind, except the said'sum of
Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per month. =—
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In addition to the. salaries and expenses above provided, constables
shall in all olasses of townships, except the first five (5) classes, receive the
following fees; for serving subpoenas the same fees and mileage as are. now or may
be hereafter allowed by law for the service of a subpoena issued out of justice's
' court; for summoning a coroner's jury, the same fees as are now or may be hereafter
allowed for summoning a jury in a civil action, in the justice's court; for trans-
porting prisoners to the County Jail, or patients to the Oo�inty Hospital the sum
of six and one::half cents (6j¢) per mile.
In addition to the salaries, compensations and fees above allowed,
' constables in all classes of townships may receive for their respective use in
civil oases the fees allowed by law.'
13. RECORDER, The Recorder, Four-,Thousand Dollars 04,000.00) per
annum; provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Recorder
the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the County
Recorder and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows:
One deputy recorder at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.`00) per month; one
deputy* recorder at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-Five Dollars (0175-'00 per
month; one deputy recorder at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($130.00)
per month; two (2) index clerks at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars
($125;00) per month each; three (3) copyists at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-
Five Dollars ($125.'00) per month each; one oomparing clerk at a salary of One Hundre
and Five Dollars ($105.00) per month; and such copyists as the County Recorder shall
appoint at a salary of 'three and 50/00 Dollars ($3.50) per day each; provided, how-
ever, that the total salaries on a per diem basis( or by folio at the deacretion
of the Recorder as hereinafter mentioned) paid to said last named copyists shall
not exceed the aum of One Thousand and Eight Hundred Doblars ($1,800.00) per annum;
and provided, further, that the County Recorder at his discretion may pay copyists
the sum of four cents (4¢) per .folio (100 words) actually copied instead of upon
a monthly or per diem basis.
14. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. The Public Administrator, such fees as
are now or may hereafter be allowed by law.
15. UALER WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The Sealer of Weights and
Measures, Two Thousand and Your Hundred Dollars ($2,400.00) per annum, provided that
' there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sealer of Weights and Measures
two deputy sealers of weights and measures at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty.
Dollars ($150.09) per month each.
16. 'AGRIOULTRUAL COMMISSIONER. The Agricultural Oommissioner, Two
Thousand and Seven Hundred Dollars ($2,700.100) per annum;-.provided, that there
' shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Agriculture Commissioner the following
inspectors and clerks to be appointed by said commissioner and to hold office at
his pleasure, and the salaries here by fixed as follows, to-wit one standard-
ization inspector at a salary of One Hundred and Forty Dollars ($140.00) per month;
one clerk at a salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100,00) per month; and'five (5)
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rodent inspectors at"a salary of Six Dollars ($6.'00) per diem each,_during:the
time actually employed, but the aggregate amount which may be expended in'.. ny
year for such rodent inspectors shall not .exoeed` the sum'of Seven Thousand ,
Dollars ($7,000.00) per annum,`
17. PROBATION OFFIOE The Probation Officer, Two Thousand and ,
Seven Hundred Dollars ($2,700.00) per annum; provided that there shall be and
there is hereby allowed to the Probation Officer one assistant to the Probation
Officer at a salary of One Hundred and Sixty-Five Dollars ($165.00) per month;
one stenographer at a salary of One Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110.00) per month..
19. SUPERINTENDENT DF SCHOOLS, The Superintendent of Schools,
Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per annum; provided that there shall be and
there is hereby allowed to the Superintendent of Schools the following deputies,
clerks and.employeee who shall be appointed by the Superintendent of Schools and
hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries as follows: one
field deputy superintendent of schools to assist the superintendent in the
discharge of his duty in visiting and examining schoole as provided by law, and
it shall be the duty of said field deputy superintendent to make vrritten reports
of.his examination to i;be transmitted by the superintendent of schools to each
trustee of all school districts so examined, which said field deputy superintendent
shall receive a salary of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.'00) per month; one deputy
superintendent of schools at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per
month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary Of-One Hundred and Sixty '
Dollars ($160.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary of
One Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110.00) per month and one stenographer clerk at a
salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month.
19. COUNTY LIBRARIAN. The County Librarian, Three Thousand Dollars
($3,000.00) per annum.'
20. SUPERVISORS. Each Supervisor shall receive as expenses as.
Supervisor and Road Commissioner six and one-half cents (6j¢) per mile each way
traveling to dud fxom his residence while engaged in the performance of the
duties of superirtsion of public roade, .Or other business of the County, said
mileage not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.'00) per annum while traveling
withing the County of .Contra Costa dnd in addition thereto shall be allowed at the
rate of Six and one-half eente(.610) per mile for. actual milesptraveledewithout the '
County of Contra Costa as mileage for the performance of County business outside
the County.
It is further provided, that there shall be and there is hereby
allowed to each supervisor, a sum not to exceed twenty-five percent (250) of his
monthly salary for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office. '
Each Supervisor shall file an intimized statement supported by receipts or
vouchers on the first day of each and every month designating the actual expenditure
on his part of expenses neoessarily inourred intthe conduct of his said office,
for the preceding month,: and no allowance shall be made to any Supervisor for
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expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office unless the same shall be
itemized and designated in said claim filed by him as herein provided.
21.' BONDS. The Cost of bonds of County officers, their assistants,
deputies and employees, such as required by law to be furnished When executed with
a reliable bond and surety company, and.duly approved shall be a charge against the
' Oounty, payable out of the General Fund.'
22. ALLOWANCE ZpRR AOTUAL AND NEOESSARY EXPENSES.' Actual, reasonable,
and necessary expenses sahll be allowed all the officers of the County and their
deputies in the discharge of their official duties, subject to such limitations as
' are elsewhere herein provided. Detailed expense accounts must be rendered on the
first day of each month for the expenses incurred in the previus month. For
traveling necessarily done by automobile, an officer shall be allowed mileage at the
rate of six and one-half oents(6jo) per mile, without any constructive mileage and
he shall be allowed hie actual traveling expenses when he travels by rail.
The salaries and expenses of the officers and their deputies herein
set forth shall be in full compensation for the servies required of them as such
officers and deputies in and by virtue of their offices and by law in such oases
made and provided, and all other fees, mileage, or other remunderation or
compensation of any kind or character received by officers or their deputies, fdr
or by reason of any duty imposed by law on them as such officers and deputies or
accuring to them by virtue of their offices and unless specifically allowed to them
' hereil shall be paid into the County Treasury at such times and in such manner as
required by law, provided, however, that until such time as the County provides
for'such officers and makes available to their use such nembers of automobiles as
are reasonably necessary to carry out the duties of their respective offices, such
officers shall be allowed to retain for their own use and benefits such mileage as
may be allowed by law or herbinbefore set forth and alloyed.
23. SALARIES-HOW PAID. Salaries of all officials, deputies, clerks
and employees herein provided for shall be paid by the county in monthly install-
ments at the same time and in the same manner, out of the wane fund as the salaries
of County officers are paid, except as herein otherwise ordained; provided, how-
ever, that the salary and compensation of all clerks, engineers, copyists and employ es
of every kind, working on a per diem basis, shall be paid only upon their filing
with, and allowance by the Board of Superivsors of said County of their duly
' verifibd,:.olaims for the sum due them; and provided, further,
All ordinances, or parte of ordinances in conflict with this
ordinance are hereby repealed; and provided, further,
This ordinance shall take effedt and be in force from and after the
' 29th day of August, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the
date of its passage the same shall be published with the names of the members
voting for and against the same in the COURIER JOURNAL, a newspaper printed and
published,in the County of Contra Costa.'
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ORDINANOE NO, 26d.
AN;ORDINANOE OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE
OF CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANOE NO. 217 OF SAID .
. COUNTY, ADOPTED ON':THE 2nd DAY OF OCTOBER, 1933,
BY AMENDING THE TITLE AND SECTION 2, 3, 4, 6, 7,
9' AND 14 THEREOF, AND BY ADDING TWO NEW SECTIONS
TkERETO, TO BE DESIGNATEDSECTION5a AND 5b,
' RESPECTIVELY.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa do ordain
as"follows:
SECTION 1.'
The title of Ordinance No. 217 of the County of Contra Costa, State of
' California,, entitled "An ordinance specifying the form of maps of any subdivision
which are to be filed in the Co,4nty of Contra Costa, State of California, and the
matter to be shown thereon and providing the procedure for the filing and con—
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sideration of such maps, "adopted on the 2nd day of October, 1933, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
An ordinance of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, adopting
subdivision regulations for said County in accordance with provisions of law.
SECTION 2.
Section 2 of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
. Section 2. Filing of and Action on Tentative Man
The subdivider shall'.file with the Planning Commission four prints of the
tentative map, made in accordance with the requirements of Section 1 of this
' ordinance, together with such additional prints as may be required by said
Commission in accordance with the provisions of this aeotion or for transmittal to
the designated official of any adjoining city or county which has requested the
same, as provided in the Subdivision Map Act. At the same time the subdivider shall
pay a deposit of Ten Dollars on the checking fee required by the provisions of this
ordinance. Said deposit shall be deposited in the Treasury of the County of Contra
and no part thereof shall be returnable to the subdivider.
the time of filing a tentative subdivision map shall be construed to be
the time at which the same is accepted by the officer designated in the rules of
the Planning Commission for that purpose. Such officer shall examine any such map
upon presentation of the sane to him and shall not aooept such map unlees the same
is in full compliance with the provisions of law and of this ordinance as to form an
as to the date, information and other matters required to be shown thereon or furnished
therewith.
-If the subdivision or any part thereof adjoins, any State Highway, the
Planning Commission shall, within three days after the filing of the tentative map,
transmit two additional prints thereof .to the District `:Engineer of the State
' Division of Highways, with a statement that said Commission will consider any
recommendation which said Distriot Engineer may care to make with respect to such
subdivision within fifteen days after receipt by him of the prints of the map.
The Planning Commission shall, within thirty days after the filing of the
tentative map, approve, conditionally approve or disapprove the same and shall _
report suoh action direct to the subdivider and shall 'al so transmit to the County ,
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y py of the tentative map and memorandum setting forth the aotion;of::
the, Commission thereon. At the time of its action on the tentative map the
Planning Commission shall, also designate the improvements which will be required
under the provisions of Section 9 of this ordinance. At the same time County
Surveyor may designate that if the final or record of survey map is not•preparbd '
in supplemantary sheets, as authorized by Section 5 of this ordinance, it shall be
prepared with all center line, reference and monument date contained on Bheets
supplementary to oorrespftding sheets containing all other date required by this
ordinance to be shown on the final or record of survey map of the subdivision.
SECTION 3. '
Section 3 of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 3. Survey and Monuments
In making the survey for the subdivision the engineer or surveyor shall
set permanent monuments at all angle points in the boundary of the subdivision,
and at the locations therein specified by the County Surveyor. No monument shall
be less substantial than a two -inch iron pipe, two feet lo3ig, centered with a
plug, driven flush with the surface of the ground, or when placed in a. street,
buried at least twelve inches below the finished grade line of the street; or a
makker Bet in permanent oement •.-work, set flush with the surface of permanent
pavement. The exact point to be preserved shall be marked with a metal tack or
copper wire or by a cross chiseled in metal. All monuments shall be subject to
inspection and approval by the County Surveyor before approval of the final or '
record of survey map. In case the street improvement work in the subdivision is
proposed to be installed subsequent to the reoordation 'of the final or record of
survey map, the County Surveyor may authorize the placing of reference point
markers in lieu of any of the monuments required by this section which can not be
permanently placed until the completion of the improvement work. In every such
case the contract for the improvement work, as provided in Section 9 of this
ordinance, shall require the placing of .the permanent monuments required by this
section.
A traverse of the boundaries of the tract and of all lots and blocks must
close within a limit of error of one foot to five thousand feet of perimeter.
SECTION 4.
Section 4 of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Seotion 4. General Reauirements as to Final Man '
The final map of any subdivision shall Conform to the following require-
ments in addition to those specified in the Subdivision Map Act:
1. The boundary of the tract shall be designated by an opaque red line
applied over the black India ink line designating the boundary line, in such a ,
manner as not to obliterate figures or other data.
2. The title sheet shall contain the title, consisting of .the comoereial
r name of the tract, as approved by the County Recorder, conspicuously placed ,at'the
# top of the sheet.. Below the title shall appear a subtitle, consisting of a general
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description of, all the property being subdivided, ,by referenoe to maps,which have
been previously recorded or by reference to the plat of a United States Survey.
In case the property included within the subdivision lies wholly in unincorporated .
territory, the following words shall appear below the title: "In the County of
Contra Costa; 11 if partly in unincorporated territory and partly within an incor—
porated city, the following words shall be used: "Lying within and adjoining the
City (or Town) of , in the County of Contra Costa. 11 Reference to tracts and
subdivisions in the description must be spelled out and worded identically with
original records; and refereroes to book and page of record must be complete.
' Every sheet comprising the map proper shall bear the title (but not subtitle),
scale, north point, sheet number and orientation data.
3. Affidavits, certificates, aoknowledgements, indorsements, acceptances
of dedication and notarial seals required by law and by this ordinance shall
appear only once upon the first, or first and such others as may be required, of
several sheets. If more than three sheets are used, a key diagram shall be
included on the title sheet.
4. There must appear on the map the saale, the north point and the
basis of bearings, reference being made to a recorded subdivision map, recorded
deed, United States Survey, County Surveyor's map, or solar or polaris observation.
SECTION 5.
A new section is hereby added to said ordinance, to be designated Section
' 5a, and to read as follows:
Section 5a. Final Map of Tract Not Defined as Subdivision
In the case of any final map covering any land not defined as a subdivision
under the terms of the Subdivision Map Act, a tentative map of such land shall first
be filed, and such tentative and final maps ehall conform ,to all the provisions of
said act and of this ordinance relating to tentative and final maps; provided,
however, that in the case of any such final map filed for the purpose of showing as
acreage land previously subdivided into numbered or lettered parcels no tentative map
need be filed, and, if sufficient recorded data exist from whioh an accurate map can
be compiled, no survey nor certificate of any surveyor or engineer shall be required
except the certificate of the County Surveyor certifying to the correctness of the
map.
' SECTION 6.
A new section is hereby added to said ordinance, to be designated Section
5H, and to read as follows:
Section 5b. Record of Survey Man
A record of survey map of any subdivision shall conform to all the re
' quireraents of a final map as set forth in the Subdivision Map Act and in this
ordinance, except insofar as the required certificates thereon differ from the
.required certificates on a final map, as specified in said act; provided, however,
that no `traot number or name, no numbers or other designations of any lots or,
blooks and no dedication data>,shall appear on any record of ,survey map.
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In,the'case 'of,a record of .survey map covering any division of land
specified in the Subdivision Map Act as not being included in the definition of.a
11eubdivision°, as set forth therein, 'a tentative map of such division of land shall
first be filed with the. Planning Commission. The Planning Commission shall,' within
thirty days after such filing, report to the Board of Supervisors on duch map on '
those matters with respect to such division of land which fall within the
jurisdiction of said Board as specified in said act. The Board of Supervisors shal ,
within ten days after receipt of such report, or dtherwise at its next regular
meeting, act on such map by resolution in such matters. Any such record of survey '
map shall be submitted to the County Surveyor for checking before being presented
to the County Recorder for recordation and shall be accompanied by a certified
copy of the resolution of the Board of Supervisors by which action was taken on the
tentative map of the land covered by such record of surveymmap. Na such record
of survey map shall be accepted by the County Recorder for recordation unless the
same has been approved by the ,Oounty Surveyor in accordance with the provisions of
law.
SECTION 7.
SectionA of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 6. Filing of Final or Record of Survey Man; Aocomnanyinm Data
The final or mecord of survey map of the subdivision and a blue line copy
thereof on cloth, containing original signatures and showing the boundary line of
the tract in opaque red color as required on the tracing, shall be filed with the '
Oounty Surveyor for checking and approval. Said map shall be accompanied by the
following data and material, which shall be furnished by the subdivider or his
agent:
(a) A traverse sheet or sheets giving latitudes and departures, showing
the mathematical closure, within the allowable limits of error, of the exterior
boundaries of the tract in all oases in which said exterior boundaries are ir—
regular or in which the tract is alid out in irregular blooks, and of the exterior:.-
boundaries
xterior:rboundaries of all irregular lots and blooks.'
(b) A statement of the water supply available for the subdivision, in- .
oluding information as to the source and quality of said supply.
(o) Plans, profiles and specifications of the improvements required by
the provisions of Section 9 &f this ordinance and of all other improvements '
proposed to be installed by the subdivider in, on, over or under any street or
way or any right of way, easement or parcel of land dedicated by the map. Such
plans and profiles must show full details of the improvements and shall ordinarily
be to a scale of one hundred feet to the inch horizontal and ten feet vertical,
or other convenient scale. '
(d) A Vandyke negative and two blue line prints of the map. The blue line
nrinte shall each shove the boundary line of the tract in 'opaque red color. If the
�'• subdivision or any part thereof lies within three.miles'of the corporate limits of
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(e) All other data that are now or may.hereafter,be required.by law.
(f) In the case of a final map the same shall also be accompanied by ,a
title report, guarantee, abstract, certificate of title or pblioy of title insurance
' by a reputable title or abstract company doing business in the County of Contra
Costa, except in cases in which the land is registered under the Torrens System,
, showing the names of all persons whose consent is.necessary to the making of the
subdivision and/or the making of dedications therein.
Said map shall also be accompanied by the recording Yee required by law
' and by the be,lanee (after deducting the deposit required by the provisions of
Section 2 of this ordinance) of a checking fee of Ten Dollars plus twenty-five
cents for each lot shown on such map, but in no case shall such checking fee be
Less than Five Dollars. In case the map is returned for correction an additional
,checking fee shall be paid, aonsisting of twenty-five cents for each lot in error
and each lot which must be rechecked as a result of such error, but in no case shall
such additional checking fee be less than Five Dollars. All checking fees shall
be deposited in the Treasury of the County.
No final map or record of survey map presented to the Bounty Surveyor
for checking and approval shall be accepted by him uhless the same is complete as
to form and as to all data required to be shown thereon by the requirements of law
and of this ordinance and unless the same is accompanied by all data, documents
' and other material required by law and by this ordinance and unless the same is
accompanied by the fees herein required.
All legal forms and notes used in certificates, aoknowledgements, and
other such matters, shall be subject to approval by the District Attorney.
SECTION 9.
Section 7 of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 7. Action on Final and Record of Survey Maps
When all the certificates whidh appear on the final or record of survey
map (except the approval certificate of the Board of Supervisors) have been signed,
the County Sruveyor shall file the map with the Board of Supervisors. Thb Board of
Sjiper#isors shall at its next meeting or within a period of not more than ten days
after such filing approve said map if the same conforms to all the requirements of
the Subdivision Map Act, this ordinance and any rulings made thereunder. In the
case of a final map the Board of Supervisors shall at the time of its action thereon
accept or reject any or all offers of dedication. Upon approval of any final or
record of survey map, the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall transmit a Copy
of the approved final map or record of survey map to the County Assessor and a copy
' to each officer or body to whom a copy of the tentative map was transmitted in
accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 9.'
Section S of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows
Section B. Action by Interested Persons
When any provision of the Subdivision Map Act or of this ordinance requires
'the execution of any certificate or affidavit or the performance of any act by a
person in his official oapaotty %Yho is also a subdivider ox an agentoremployee
'thereof, suoh.oertifioate or affidavit shall be executed or such act shall be per_
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formed by some other person duly qualified°therefor and:designated so to act by;
the'Board of Supervisors.
SECTION 10.E _
Section 9 of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 9. Dedications: Improvements '
All parcels of land shown on any final map and intended for any public
use shall be offered for dedication for public use except those parcels, other`
than streets, which are intended for the exclusive use of the lot owners in the
subdivision, their licensees, visitors, tenants and,servants. '
The subdivider shall improve all streets, highways and ways which are a
part of the subdivision. Such improvements, as designated by the Planning
Commission, shall conform to the following requirements:
(1� The following, or its equivalent: surfacing, not less than twenty
feet in width, adequate to give proper access to all lots fronting upon each
street, consisting of not less than five inch water bound maoadam. A wearing
surface may be required if necessary tO protect the foregoing. In nonurban
subdivisions with lots of a minimum of'40,000 square feet in area, the foregoing
requirements may be modified and such street grading and/or surfacing shall be
provided as may be reasonalbe in each oase.
(2) Adequate water supply.
M' Such sanitary facilities as may be necessary to protect the public
health and to serve the public convenience.' '
(4) In all cases there shall be installed such structures as are
necessary to the use and the proper drainage of the streets, highways and ways in
the subdivision and to the public safety.`
All street improvements must be according to such standards as exist or
as may be established by the County of Contra Costa and shall be installed to
permanent grades approved by the County Surveyor, which grades shall be at
elevations about the level of any reasonably possible inundation by storm , flood
or tide waters.
If all the required improvement work is satisfactorily completed before
the final or record of survey map is submitted toathe Board of Supervisors for
approval, such map shall �e.accompanied by a certificate, so stating, by the
County Surveyor. '
If such imprBvement work is not satisfactorily completed before the final
or record of survey map is submitted to the Board of Supervisors for approval
and if such map is not accompanied by the foregoing oertifiegte;,the owner or
owners of the subdivision shall, concurrently with the approval of such map by
the Board of Supervisors, enter into an agreement *±th the Board of Supervisors, '
agreeing to have the work oompleted within the time specified in said agreement.
Said agreement may provide for the improvements to be installed in units, for
�,..• extensions of time under speoified conditions or for the termination of\`suoh
agreement upon a reversion of the subdivvision or a part thereof to acreage.
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Such' agreement;muet 'be,'seoured by a good-and sufficient bond, approved by
the Board of Sup ervisors, 'or by the deposit of money or negotiable bonde,'as
provided in the Subdivision Map Act. Any applioation for the release of ahy such
bond or.for the return of any such money or negotiable bonds shall be accompanied .
by a certificate, by the County Surveyor, stating that all required improvement
work has been satisfactorily completed, and no such bond shall be released and no
suoh money or negotiable bonds shall be returned unless and until such a certificate,
in each ease, shall first have been filed with the Board of Supervisors.
' The planes and profiles of all improvements, other than those required
by the provisions of this section, which are proposed to be installed by the
subdivider in, on, over or under any street or right of way, easement or parcel of
land dedicated by the map shall be subject to the approval of the County Surveyor
before the recording of the map.
SECTION 11,
Seotion 14 of said ordinance is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sedtion 14. Purpose of Adoption: Reference_
This ordinance may be referred to as the "Contra Costa County Subdivision
Ordinance" and is a local ordinance adopted for the purpose of adopting subdivision
regulations, in accordance with the provision of the Subdivision Map Act. The
County Planning Commission (referred to in this ordinance as the Planning Commission)
of the County of Contra Costa, State of Oalifornia, (referred to in this ordinance as the
County) is hereby designated as the advisory agency with r espeot to subdiitilkions,
as provided in said act, and shall have:;;all the powers and duties with respect to
subdivisions, the maps thereof and theprocedurerelating thereto which are
specified by law and by this ordinance.
SEOTION 12:
If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance
is for any"reaeon held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the, decision of any
,00urt:of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of the ordinance.' The Board of Supervisors hereby declares that
it would have passed this ordinance and each section, sub-seotion, sentenee, ,olause
and yhrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections,
sub-seotions, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
�I SECTION 13."
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the let
dayoof September, 1938, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the
date of"its passage the same shall.be published with the names of the members
voting for and against the same, in the Crockett Signal, a newspaper printed and
published in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Boars of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa on
the lat:mday of August, 1935,-by the following voter
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NOES: Supervisors, None`
ABSENT: None
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Ohairmatt of the.Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa ' State of
California.
ATTEST.
S., C.' ) ells.
Clerk and ex-officionolerk of the.
Board of Supervisors of the.Ohunty
of Contra Costa, State of California.
ORDINANCE NOL, 269. .
AN .ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 10 and 23 of ORDINANCE N0 267 .
RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS -
OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSPA, AND PROVIDING FOR THE NUMBER,
APPOINTMENT 8, TERMS AND COMPENSATICN OF DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES,
THEREOF.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows:
-SECTION 1: Sections Ten (10) and twenty-three (23) of the county salary
ordinance, No. .2¢7, are hereby amended to read as follows:
"Seo. 10. JUSTICES OFIM PEACE: Justices of the Peace shall receive the
following monthly salaries:
( 3 7 (1) In Townships of the first class fihree hundred and seven dollars
0 .00) per month.
(2) In Townships of the second class, One hundred and seventy-five
Dollars,. (0175.00) per month.
(3) In Townships of the third class, One hundred and fifty-four dollars
0154.00) per month.
(4) In Townships of the fourth class, One hundred and fifty-four dollars
(0154.00) per month.
(5) In Townships of the fifth Class, One hundred and Ten dollars (110.0 )
per month.
(6) In townships of the sixth class, Fifty dollars (x$50.00) dollars per
month.
(7) In Townships of the seventh class, Twenty=five dollars ($25.00)
per month.
Provided, however, that from and after January 2, 1939• there shall be
and there is hereby allowed each month to each ,justice of the peace a sum equal to
twenty per cent (20%) of his monthly salary as and for. the use of lits private office
and/ or pffice equipment in the performance of his official duties as justice of the
p eaoe.. It ].s further provided that no justice of the peace shall receive any ,ex- ^`
penses of any kind, except the said sum of Twenty per cent (20%) of said monthly
salary; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall preclude the said
Justices of.the peace from being reimbursed for monies,.allowed to them by law from
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uS (S) For purposes of this section the various` dockets and legal forms
required by the justices of the peace for the conduct of their offices shall not be
deemed to be expenses of their offices, but such dockets and legal forms, subject to
the approval of the District Attorney, shall be furnished by the county upon requisi -
ions to the Purchasing Agent and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed from a
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generala.P.und,appropriation for the purposes:
(9)' ITIS FURTHER PROVIDED,that justices of the..peace of all townships
shall issue receipts for all money collected by them in the performance of their
duties.-"
"Seca 23. Salaries— How paid. Salaries of all offioia]s, deputies, clerks,
and employees herein provided for shall be paid by the county in monthly install
' ments at the same time and in the same manner, out of the same, fund as' the salaries
of county officers, are paid, except as herein otherwise ordained; provided, however,
that the salary and compensation of all clerks, engineers, copyists and employees
of every kind, working on a per_diem basis, shall be paid only upon their filing
' with, and allowance by the Board of Supervisors of said County of their duly veri—
fied claims for the sum due them; provided, further, that, at the election of the
employee, indicated by written instructions of such employee, filed by him with the
County Auditor, a portion of his salary or wages may be paid on his behalf direct
to his insurer to cover the amount of the monthly premium on any insurance contract-
ed for by him under any group insurance plan arranged by him.in conjunction with
other employees."
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 19th
day of November, 1938, .and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the
date of its passage, the same shall be published with the names of the members
voting for and against the same in the"Brentwood News" a newspaper ,printed and
published in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the
17th day of October, 1939, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Claeys, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: Supervisors— None.
Absent: Supervisors— None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
ATTEST. S.C. WELLS, Chairman of the Board of, Superviso s
County Clerk and ex—offioloClerk of the of the County of Contra Costa
Board of Supervisors of the County State of California.
of Contra Costa, State of California.
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ORDINANCE NO.' 270. a
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 209 OF.THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAVEL
OVER AND ALONG HIGHWAYS,ROADS, STREETS,, LANES, AND ALLEYS
IN THE COUNTY OF CONTRA CCBTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF" AS AENDED.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows, to wit:
SECTION 1 of Ordinance No. 209 entitled "An Ordinance regulating travel
over and along highways, roads, streets, lanes and alleys in the County of Contra
Costa, and,providing a penalty for vl6lalions thereof" passed and adopted by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, on the 5th
day of October,„1931,, as amended, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following
All that certain road known as "First Street" in the Town of xodeo,
commencing at its intersection with the State Highway and extending to Garretson
Avenue
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 19th
day of November, 1938, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of
its passage the same shall be published, with the names of the members voting
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for and against the same, in the Pinole Times, a•newspaper printed and published in
the County of Contra Costa.
The fore going'erdinance'was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, at,a regular session of the said
Board held on the 17th day of October, 1939,.by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cumminga", Claeys, Buchanan and Trembath. '
Noes! None.
Absent: •None,
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ATTEST: S.C. WELLS, CHAIRMAN F THI BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
County Clerk and ex-officio OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors CALIFORNIA.
of'the County of Contra Costa, State
of California. '
ORDINANCE N0, 271
AN 'ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 267'OF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA
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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Oontra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows
Ordinance Number 267 of the County•of Contra Costa is hereby amended by
adding a new paragraph thereto, to be numbered "No. 2411 and to read as follows,
to-wit: The office of Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby created.
The duties of said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be to aid and
assist the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
in the performance of purely clerical duties, not now required by law to be performed ,
by the Oounty Clerk, as ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, the County
Auditor,or the County Surveyor, or either of them. The compensation of said
Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be- fixed at One Hundred Dollars per
month, payable out of the General Fund of said county.
The office of Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby
created. The duties of said Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall
be to aid and assist the said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors in the per-
formance of her duties. The compensation of said Second Stenographer to the Board
of Supervisors shall be fixed at Ten Dollars per month, payable out of the General
Fuad of said county.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 9th
day of December, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of
its adoption, the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for '
and against the same in the Brentwood News, a newspaper printed and published in
the County of Contra. Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County on the 7th
day of November: 1939, by the following vote: ,
AYES. Supervisors.. Long, Cummings, Claeys, Buchanan and Trembath
NOES: Supervisors: None
ABSENT: Supervisors; None
ATTEST:
S. O. WELLS W J. BUCHANAN
County Clerk and ex-offioio Clerk of Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
the Board of Supervisors of the County of the County of Contra Costa, State
of Contra Costa, State of California. of California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 2j2
AN ORDINANCE "ENDING SEOTION TWO OF ORDINANCE
N0. 267 OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, RELATING
TO THE REGULATION OF THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS
OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA'COSTA, AND PROVIDING FOR
THE NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS, TERMS AND COMPENSATION
OF DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES THEREOF.
' The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Oosta, State of
California, do ordain as fo�lgws:
Seotion Two of Ordinance No. 267 of the County of Contra Costa, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
' 2. AUDITOR: There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Auditor
the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Auditor
and hold office at his pleasure and shall• be paid salaries as follows: One deputy
guditor at a salary of Two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225.00) per month;
one deputy Auditor at a salary of One hundred and forty dollars ($140.00) per month;
two deputy auditors at a salary of One hundred and thirty-five dollars ($135.00)
per month each; one deputy auditor at a salary of one hundred and thirty Dollars
($130.00) per mohth; one deputy auditor at a salary of One hundred and twenty-five
dollars ($125.00) per month; and two deputy auditors at a salary of One hundred and
Five Dollars ($105.00) per month each; and one deputy auditor at a salary of Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month, one half of which latter shall be taken from
the salary fund and one-half of which shall be taken from the road fund of said
County; provided, further that said auditor is hereby allowed such clerks and employ-
' eee as he may beem necessary to appoint at a salary of Five Dollars ($5.00), Four
Dollars ($4.00), or Three Dollars ($3.00) per day each; provided however, •that the
amount of such salaries and compensations paid to such clerks and employees on a per
diem basis shall not exceed the total sum of Twenty-one Hundred Dollars ($2100:00)
per annum.
This Ordinance shall take effeot_and be in force from and after the 3rd
day of February, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of
its passage, the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for
and against the same in the Oonoord Transcript,• a newspaper printed and published
in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of County of Contra Costa, State of
California, on the 3rd day of. January, 1939, by following vote:
' Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath:
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
W J Buchanan
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of County of Contra Costa, State of
California.
ATTEST: S. 0, WELLS
County Clerk and ex-Officio
Clerk of-the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Oontr% Costa,
State of California.
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AN..ORDINANCE AMENDING,ORDINANCE NO.z 271OF THE .
COUNTY*OF, OCNTRA' COSTA::
The;Board of Supervisors'of Contra Costa County-, State of California,
do ordain as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. -271 of the County of Contra-Costa,, is hereby amended to '
read as follows:
The office ,o f,'• . Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby
created. The duties of said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be to
aid and assist the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, in the performance of purely clerical duties, not now required by law
to be performed by the County Clerk, as ex—officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors,
the County Auditor or the County Surveyor, or either of them. The compensation
of said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be fixed at One Huudred Ten
Dollars per month, payable out of the General Fund of said County.
The Office of Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby
created. The duties of said Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall
be to aid and assist the said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors in the per—
formance of her duties. The Compensation of said Seconcl Stenographer to the Board
of Supervisors shall be fixed at Ten Dollars per month, payable out of the General
Fund of said County .
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the
16th Gay of February, 1939,, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the '
date of its adoption, the same shall be published with the names of the members
voting for and against the same in the Brentwood News, a newspaper printed and
published in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted;. by the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, on the
16th day of January, 1939, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: Supervisors, None.
Absent : Supervisor, None.
{ W. J. BUCHANAN
t,. Chairman of the Board of Superviso s
of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
ATTEST: S.C. WELLS
County Ulerk and ex—officio
Clerk_of the Board of Supervisors
of the'County of Contra Costa, State
of California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 274,
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 245 OF THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA' COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED MAN ORDINANCE
OF"THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF, CALIFORNIA, INSTRUCTING
THE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION OF SAID COUNTY TO PREPARE A ZONING
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OR'DISTRICTING PLAN AS A FART OF THE MA92ER PLAN OF SAID COUNTY-
APPLYING CERTAIN REGULATIONS TO THE USE OF LAND, BUILDINGS AND
STRUCTURES AND TO THE ERECTION, CON STRUCTION AND ALTERATION OF
BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND IMPROVEMENTS PENDING TW ADOPTION BY
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF A ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN: and
' PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS
HEREOF" AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 247, ORDINANCE NO. 249,
ORDINANCE N0. 253, ORDINANCE NO. 256 AND ORDINANCE NO.266.
to wit: The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa do ordain as follows
Ordinance No. 245 entitled "An Ordinance of the County of Dontra Costa,
' State of California, instructing the County Planning Commission of said County to
prepare a zoning or distriet'ing plan as a part of the Master plan of said County;
applying certain regulations to the use of land, buildings and structures and to
the erection, construction and alteration of buildings, structures and improvements,
pending the adoption by the Board of Supervisors of a Zoning or districting Plan;
and prescribing penalties for the violation of any of the provisions hereof" passed
and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa on the 14th
day of December, 1936, as amended by Ordinance No. 247, passed and adopted by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa on the 19th day of March, 1937,
and as further amended by Ordinance No. 249, passed and adopted by the Board of
Supervisors of the County of Contra Vosta, on the 7th day of June, 1937, and as
further amended by ordinance No. 253, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa on the first day of November, 1937, and as further
amended by ordinance No. 256, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, on the 6th day of December, 1937, and as.further amended
by Ordinance No. 266, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Contra Costa on the 20th day of June, 1935, is hereby amended to change the
boundaries of Interim Land Use District No. 8 as established in Section 5f of
Ordinance No. 256 to exclude certain territory now covered by. the Interim Zoning
Ordinance establishing Land Use District No. 5, by adding two new sections to estab-
lish new boundaries; said new sections to be designated as Sections 5h and 51 res-
. peetively, which said.aetion 5h shall follow immediately after Section 59 of said
ordinance, and which said Section 51 shall follow immediately after said Section 5h,
and which shall read as follows:
SECTION 1•
' Section 5h. Interim Land Use District No. 10 is hereby established through
Revision of the boundaries of Interim Land Use District No. 5 to conform to the
following described territory:
Being a strip of land one thousand feet wide the center line of which is as
follows;
Beginning at the most southerly point of the intersection of the northern bound-
ary of the San Ramon School District and the center line of State Highway Route 107
as delineated bn the Official Map of Contra Costa County for 1935, and running
northerly along the center line of State Highway Route 107 to the northern boundary
line of the San Ramon UnicnHigh School District,said center line being:delineated
on the Contra Costa County Plan of the County Highway-Division 15, as Oiled with the
County Recorder in the Hall of Records, Martinez, California, on January 23, 1939,
at the request of the Division of Highways.
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f Section 51. Interim Land Uae`District No ;11 'is hereby established, through
revision of the^boundaries of Interim Land`Use 'District No. 8 to conform to .the.
following described territory
,i All that portion of the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra
Costa, State of California, lying east of the San Ramon Creek; being described by
the following boundaries:
BEGINNING at the function of the center line of Livorna Road and the center
line of the San Ramon Creek; thence easterly along the center line of Livorna Road
to the-junction of the center,lines of Livorna road and Miranda Road; thence :
southwesterly and southerly along the center line of Miranda Road to the northern
boundary of the A.ariffith property; thence easterly along the northern boundary ,
of said property line and continued easterly to the west boundary line of the propert
of Melinda Mott, et, al; thence southerly along the crest boundary of said property to
the center line,of the Stone Valley Road; thence westerly,' along said center line,
to the center ,line of .the San Ramon Creek; thence northerly along the center line
of the San Ramon Creek to the point of beginning.
SECTION II:
This new Ordinance is hereby. declared to be a revision of the boundaries
established in Ordinance No. 256 and to be.an exclusion of,certain territory formerly
included in that said Ordinance. The new Ordinance supersedes any .former Interim
Zoning Ordinance for the territory described in Interim Zoning Ordinance No. 256
by establishing certain new boundaries and excludes all that territory not indicated
in Section 5h and Section 51 of this Ordinance. ,
SECTION III.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 13thday
of April, 1939; and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date of its
passage. the same shall be published, with the names of the members voting for and
against the same, in the Courier—Journal,. a newspaper printed and published in the
County of Contra Uosta.
The foregoing ordinance was passed and adapted by the Board of Supervisors
of.the County of Contra Costa, State of California, at .a special session of the
said'Board held on the thirteenth day of March, 1939s by the following votes, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Cummings, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: Supervisors— None.
' Absent: Supervisors: 'Long and Bollman.
w W. J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors'
of the County of Contra Costa, State
,zw ATTEST: of California:
tti S.C.Well s,
County Clerk and ex—officio Clerk
_ of the Board of Supervisors of the
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ORDINANCE NO. 275
All ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE COIRENSATION CF OFFICERS. OF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE NMUM,. APPOINT-
MENTS, TERMS, AND COMPENSATIONS OF DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES
THEREOF; AND REPEALIM ALL ORDINANCES, OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
' The.Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
do ordain as follows:
In the County of Contra Costa, the county and township officers, deputies and
employees shall receive as full compensation for all services required of them by
law, or by virtue of their office, the following salaries:
'. 1. CLERK. The County Clerk, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per annum;
provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the County Clerk the
following clerks, deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the County Clerk
and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid' salaries as follows: one chief
deputy at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month; two
courtroom deputies at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) each per month; one
office deputy at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month; one office
deputy at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month; two office
deputies at a salary of One Hundred and Forty-five Dollars •(11145.00) per month each;
and one office deputy at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty Dollars (,,1130.00) per
month; provided, further, that in any year when a General or Primary Election or a
Special State or County Election is to be held, or the compilation of a registration
' of voters is required by law or supplements to be made thereto, the County Clerk
shall receive for the hire of extra help for compiling of such registration of voters
and making supplements thereto, and work incidental to said election, his actual
expenses to be paid upon filing and presentation of duly verified claims therefor by
the County Clerk or claims approved by the County Clerk with the Board of Supervisors
of said County, after proper allowance of said claim by said Board of Supervisors;
and provided, further, the said County Clerk may appoint such number of registration
deputies as may be necessary for the registration of voters in their respective pre-
cincts, each of said deputies to receive the sum of ten cents (10¢) per name for
each elector registered by him, said registration deputies to be paid for their ser-
vices on the presentation and filing with the Board of Supervisors of said County a
duly verified claim therefor, on the general fund of said County, after proper allow-
ance of said claim by said Board of Supervisors.
2. AUDITOR. There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Auditor the
following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Auditor and
hold office at his pleasure and shall be paid salaries as follows: One deputy auditor
at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars (,6p225.00J per month; one deputy
auditor at a salary of One Hundred and Forty Dollars ($140.00) per month; two deputy
auditors at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty-five Dollars ($135.00) per month each;
one deputy auditor at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($130.00) per month;
one deputy auditor at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per
month; two deputy auditors at a salary of One Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($115.00)
per month each; one deputy auditor at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per
month, and one deputy auditor at a salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month,
all of which last mentioned salary shall be charged against the cost of administratio
of Highways and Bridges work; provided, further, that said auditor is hereby allowed
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such clerks and employees as he may deem necessary to appoint at a salary of Five
Dollars ($5.00), Four Dollars ($4.00), or Three Dollars 03,00) per day each; provide( ,
however, that the amount of such salaries and compensations paid to such clerks and
employees on a per diem basis shall not exceed the total sum of Twenty-one Hundred
Dollars ($2100.00) per annum.
Z. TREASURER. The Treasurer, Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) per annum;
provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Treasurer the fol- ,
lowing deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Treasurer, and
shall hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows: one deputy
treasurer at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month; one
clerk at a salary of One Hundred.Dollars ($100.00) per month. '
4. ASSESSOR. The Assessor, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per annum;
provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Assessor the follow-
ing deputies, clerks and employees, who shall be appointed by the Assessor and shall
hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries: one chief
deputy assessor at a salary of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per month, one
land appraisal deputy assessor at a salary of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00)
per month, one itprovement. valuation deputy assessor at a salary of Two Hundred and
Twenty-five Dollars (0225.00) per month; one- improvement valuation deputy assessor at
a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month; two deputy assessors at a salary
of One Hundred and Eighty Dollars ($180.00) per month each; one transfer deputy asses -
or at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month, one exemption
deputy assessor at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per month; '
four field deputy assessors to hold office not to exceed five months each in any one
fiscal year at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month each,
and such additional deputy assessors, clerks and employees as the Assessor may appoin
at salaries of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day, Eight Dollars ($8.00) per day, and Six
Dollars (06.00) per day, Four and 50/100 Dollars (;)4.50) per day, Four Dollars (;$4.00
per day, and Three and 50/100 Dollars ($$3.50) per day each; provided, however, that
the total compensation of suoh additional deputy assessors, clerk and employees shal
not exceed the sum of Seven Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy Dollars (;$7,770.00)
per annum; and provided, further, that the Assessor is hereby authorized to contract
with an. abstraot and title company for copies of transcripts of recorded instruments
affecting titles at a compensation of Forty Dollars (040.00) .per month.
5. TAX COLLECTOR. The Tax Collector, Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) per
annum; provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Tax Collector '
the following clerks, deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the Tax Collec -
or and shall be paid salaries as follows: one deputy tax collector at a salary of Two
Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month; one deputy tax collector at a
salary of One Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) per month; one deputy tax '
collector at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per month; one dep-
uty tax collector at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per
month; one clerk at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty-five ($135.00) per month; one
stenographer-clerk at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per
month; and such copyists and clerks .as the tax collector may appoint at a salary of
Three and 50/100 Dollars ($3.50) per day or Four and 50/100 Dollars (04.50) per day
each; provided, however, that the total amount of salary and compensation paid to
such copyists and clerks shall not exceed the sum of Five Thousand Dollars 05,000.00
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per annum.
6. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. There shall be'and there' is hereby allowed to the Dist-
ict Attorney the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by
the District Attorney and hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries
as follows: one chief deputy district attorney at a salary of Three Hundred Dollars
10300.00) per month; three deputy district attorneys at a salary of Two Hundred and
' enty-five Dollars ($225.00) per month each; one deputy district attorney at a salary
of Two Hundred,Dollars ($)200.00) per month; one detective who shall assist the dist-
riot attorney in the detection of crime and prosecution of criminal cases and in civil
actions and proceedings and all other matters in which the County is interested, whose
' Salary is hereby fixed at the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per
month; one deputy district attorney at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-five ($175.(0)
per month; one stenographer to the district attorney at a salary of One Hundred and
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Forty-two Dollars ($142.00) per month; two stenographers at a salary of One Hundred
land Twenty-five Dollars (;)125.00) per month each; and one stenographer at a salary of
One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month.
7. CORONER. The Coroner, such fees as are now and may hereafter be allowed by
law, provided, however, that the coroner shall be allowed for-general services in hold
ng an inquest the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00), and provided, further, that there is
hereby allowed to the coroner one stenographer, whose duty it shall be to act as repor -
er and take down in shorthand and transcribe into longhand the testimony of the wit-
esses at all inquests, which stenographer shall be appointed by the coroner and hold
office at his pleasure, and shall be paid a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five
Dollars ($125.00) per month.
8. SURVEYOR. The Surveyor, Five Thousand Dollars (05,000.00) per annum, pro-
vided, however, that the surveyor shall not engage in private practice of engineering
or surveying, and provided, further,- that there shall be and there is hereby allowed
to the surveyor the following deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the
surveyor and shall hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries as fol-
lows: one chief deputy surveyor at a salary of Three Hundred Dollars (4,?'300.00) per.
month; one deputy surveyor at a salary of Two Hundred and Sixty Dollars ($260.00) per
month; two engineers at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00) per
month each; one draftsman at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($225.00)
per month; one draftsman at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($$200.00) per month; one
draftsman at a salary of One Hundred and Eighty-five Dollars ($185.00) per month; one
instrument man at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month; one chairman
at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty-five Dollars ($135.00) per month; three rod-men
qt a salary of One Hundred and Thirty-five Dollars ($135.00) per month each; one
stenographer at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ($125.00) per month;
' provided, further, that the surveyor may employ additional chain-men at a wage of Five
and 50/100 Dollars (05.50) per day, instrument men at Seven Dollars ($7.00) per day;
draftsmen at Eight Dollars ($8.00) per day; ergineers at Nine Dollars ($9.00) per day
and Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day, and stenographers at Four Dollars ($4.00) .per day
and'Five Dollars ($5.00) per day, when in the opinion of the surveyor such additional
employees are necessary; provided, further, that the total amount of compensation paid
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for such additional employees on a per diem basis shall not in any.fisoalyear ea
teed the sum of Twenty-two Hundred Dollars ($2200,00).
9. CLASSIFICATION OF TOWNSHIPS. The population of the several judicial
townships for the purpose of fixing the compensation of township officers ahallbe
ascertained and declared by the Board of Supervisors in the month of July, 1939, and
in the month. of July.every four years thereafter as follows: said board shall be or-
der at a regular meeting determine the population of each township to be three (3)
times the registration of legal voters on file July first of said year in each town-
ship, and every four years thereafter succeeding, and it shall declare this sum to be
the population of each township. Said townships shall further be classified as fol
lowd:
Class 1--Townships having a population of more than twenty thousand (20,000) ; '
Class 2--Townships having a population of from ten thousand and one (10,001)
to twenty thousand (20,000) ;
Class 3--Townships having a population of from seven thousand and one (7,001)
to ten thousand (10,000) ;
Class 4--Townships having a population of from four thousand and one (4,001)
to seven thousand (7,000);
Class 5--Townships having a population of from two thousand and one (2,001)
to four thousand (4,000) ;
Class 6--Townships having a population of from one thousand and. one (1,001)
to two thousand (2,000) ;
Class 7--Townships having a population of less than one thousand (1,000) ;
10. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Justices of the Peace shall receive the follow- '
ing monthly salaries:
(1) In townships of the first class Three Hundred and Seven Dollars' 0307.00
per month.
(2) In townships of the second class, One Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars
0175.00) per month.
(3) In townships of the third class One Hundred and Fifty-four Dollars
($154.00) per month.
(4) In townships of the fourth class, One Hundred and Fifty-four Dollars
($154.00) per month.
(5) townships of the fifth class, One Hundred and Ten Dollars (0110.00)
per month.
(6) In townships of the sixth class, Fifty Dollars (050.00) per month. '
(7) In townships of the seventh class, _Twenty-five Dollars ($)25.00) per month.
Provided, however, that from and after January 2, 1939, there shall be and
there is hereby allowed each month to each justice of the peace a sum equal to twenty
per cent (200) of his monthly salary as and for the use of his private office and/or
office equipment in the performance of his official duties as justice of the peace. '
It is further provided that no justice of the peace shall receive any expenses of any
kind, except the said sum of twenty percent (200) of said monthly salary; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall preclude the said justices of the peace
from being reimbursed for monies allowed to them by law from fees received inthe fil
v ing of small claims actions.
For purposes of this section the various dockets and legal forms required by
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the justices of the peace for the conduct of their offices shall not be deemed to be
expenses of their offices, but such dockets and legai 'forms, subfeat to the Approval
of the District Attorney, shall be furnished by the county upon requisitions to the
Purchasing Agent and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed from a general fund appro-
priation for the purpose.
It is further provided that justices of the peace of all townships shall
' issue receipts for all money collected by them in the performance of their duties.
11. SHERIFF. The Sheriff, Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per annum;
provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff the following
deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Sheriff and shall hold
' office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries: one Undersheriff
at a salary of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars (E$250.00) per month; one deputy sheriff
at a salary of Two Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars ( $225.00) per month; three deputy
sheriffs at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars (#200.00) per month each; one deputy
sheriff to act as day hailer at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars
($175.00) per month; one deputy sheriff to- act as night jailer at a salary of One
Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) per month; two deputy sheriffs to act as
bailiffs at a salary of One Hundred and Eighty-five Dollars ($185.00) per month each;
one deputy sheriff at a salary of One Hundred and Eighty-five Dollars ($185.00) per
month; two deputy sheriffs at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-two Dollars ($172.OC)
per month each; one deputy sheriff to act as photographer at a salary of One Hundred
and Sixty Dollars ($160.00) per month; one deputy sheriff to act as radio technician
at a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) per month; two deputy
' sheriffs at a salary of One Hundred and Sixty Dollars ($160.00) per month each; four
deputy sheriffs at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars (.1150.00) per month each;
one deputy sheriff to act as superintendent of the jail branch at a salary of One
Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) per month; one deputy sheriff to act as
guard at the Jail branch at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00) per
month; one secretary at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($130.00) per mont ;
one jail matron at A salary of One Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110.00)per month; pro-
vided, further, that the sheriff may employ from one to five persons to act as deputy
sheriffs at a salary of Four and 50/100 Dollars ($4.50) per day, when, in the judgmen
of the sheriff, such deputies are necessary; provided, however, that the total amount
of the oompensation for such additional deputies to be paid per diem shall not in any
fiscal year exceed the total sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800.00) ; and provided,
' further, that the sheriff may employ extra guards at the Jail branch at a salary of
Five and 00/100 Dollars (;15.00) per day, when, in the judgment of the sheriff; such
guards are necessary; provided, however, that the total amount of the compensation
for such extra guards to be paid per diem'shall not in any fiscal year exceed the
total sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) ; provided, further, that the compensa-
tion of such last mentioned deputies and extra guards shall be paid upon presentation
of duly itemized• verified claims filed with the Board of Supervisors of said county
in the same manner that other claims are filed and paid.
There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the sheriff to be by him re-
tained for his own use all mileage for service of papers in civil actions arising
either in or outside of the County, excepting actions in which the county is interested,
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and also all mileage in criminal oases for each mile actually and necessarily traveled
by automobiles at the rate of five and one-half oents. (51) per mile. All fees col
leoted by the sheriff for the service of papers and processes in civil matters shall
be collected by the sheriff for the use and benefit of the.County, and shall .by him b
paid into the County Treasury at.such times and manner as required by law.
12. CONSTABLES. Constables in the several townships shall receive the follow
Ing salaries•
-(1) In townships of the first class, the sum of One Hundred Eighty Dollars '
($180.00) per month.
(2) In townships of the second class, the,sum of One Hundred Eighty Dollars
($180.00) per month.
(3) In townships of the third class, the sum of One Hundred Eighty Dollars
(0180.00) per month. '
(4) In townships of the fourth class, the sum of One Hundred Eighty Aollars
($180.00) per month.
(5) In townships of the fifth class, the sum of.One Hundred Eighty Dollars
($180.00) per month.
(6) In townships of the sixth class, the sum of One Hundred Twenty-five Dol-
lars 0125.00) per month.
(7) In townships of the seventh class, the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per
month.
It is further provided that constables in townships of the first, second, third,
fourth and fifth classes shall receive the sum of Fifty.Dollars ($50.00) per month
as and for the use of their respective automobiles in the performance of their duties
as constables. Each suoh,constable shall file a claim on the first day of each and ,
every month for the preceding month, and no allowance shall be made to any such con-
stable for such use of his automobile unless such a claim is filed by him as herein
provided.
It is further provided that no contable;in the first five classes shall re-
oeive any mileage or expenses of any kind, except the said sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.( 0)
per month.
In addition to the salaries and expenses above provided, constables shall in
all classes of townships, except the•first five classes receive the following fees:
for serving subpoenas the same fees and mileage as are now or may be hereafter al-
lowed by law for the service of a subpoena issued out of justiee's court; for summon-
ing.a coroner's fury,, the same fees as are, now or may be hereafter allowed for summon
Ing a jury in a civil action in the justice's court; for transporting prisoners to th) '
County Jail, or patients to the County Hospital, .the sum of Five and one-half cents
(5j) per mile.
In addition to the salaries, compensations and fees above allowed, oonstable
in all classes of townships may reoeive. for their respective use in civil cases the
fees allowed by law. '
13. RECORDER. The Recorder, Four Thousand Dollars ($4,000.00) per annum;
provided, that there shall be. and there is hereby allowed to the Recorder the follow-
Ing deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the County Recorder and
hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries. as follows: One. deputy re-
corder at a salary of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month; one deputy recorder
A a salary of One Hundred and Seventy-five Dollars ($175.00) per month; one deputy
recorder at a salary of One Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($130.00) per month; two (2)
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index clerks at a salary of one Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars (0125.00) per month
each; three (3) copyists at a salary of One Hundred and Twenty-five Dollars (0125`.00)
pet month each; two comparing clerks at a salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per
month each; and such copyists as the County Recorder shall appoint at a salary of
Three and 50/100 Dollars ($3.50) per day each; provided, however, that the total sal-
aries on a per diem basis (or by folio at the discretion of the Recorder as herein-
after mentioned) paid to said last named copyists shall not exceed the sum of One
' Thousand and Eight Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) per annum; and provided, further, that
the County Recorder at his discretion may pay copyists the sum of four cents (4¢)
per folio (100 words) actually copies instead of upon a monthly or per diem basis.
14. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. The Public Administrator, suoh fees as are now
' or may hereafter be allowed by law.
15. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND 14HASURERS. The Sealer of Weights and Measures,
Two Thousand and Four Hundred Dollars ($2,400.00) per annum; provided that there
shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sealer of Weights and Measures two deputy
sdalers of weights and measures at a salary of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars (;$150.00
per month each.
16. AGRICULTURAL COIZAISSIONER. The' Agricultural Commissioner, Two Thousand
and Seven Hundred Dollars 02,700.00) per annum; provided, that there shall be and
there is hereby allowed to the Agricultural Commissioner the following inspectors and
clerks to be appointed by said commissioner and to hold office at his pleasure, and
the salaries hereby fixed as follows, to-wit: one standardization inspector at a
salary of One Hundred and Forty Dollars ($140.00) per month; one clerk at a salary of
' One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month; and five rodent inspectors at a salary of
Six Dollars ($6.00) per diem each, during the time actually employed, but the aggre-
gate amount which may be expended in any year for such rodent inspectors shall not
exceed the sum of Seven Thousand Dollars (($7,000.00) per annum.
17. PROBATION OFFICER. The Probation Officer, Two Thousand and Seven
Hundred Dollars ($2,700.00) per annum; provided that there shall be and there is here-
by allowed to .the Probation Officer one assistant to the Probation Officer at a sal-
ary of One Hundred and Sixty-five Dollars ($165.00) per month; one stenographer at a
salary of One Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110.00) per month.
18. SUPERINTENDENT. OF SCHOOLS. The Superintendent of Schools, Five
Thousand Dollars (;$5,000.00) per annum; provided that there shall be and there is
hereby allowed to the Superintendent of Schools the following deputies, clerks and
employees who shall be appointed by the Superintendent of Schools and hold office at
his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries as follows: one field deputy superintend-
ent of schools to assist the superintendent in the discharge of his duty in visiting
and examining schools as provided by law, and it dhall be the duty of said field
deputy superintendent to make written reports of his examination to be transmitted by
' the superintendent of schools to each trustee of all school districts so examined,
which said field deputy superintendent shall receive a salary of Three Hundred Dol-
lars 0300.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary of Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary
of ,0ne Hundred and Thirty Dollars ($130.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of
schools at a salary of One Hundred and Ten Dollars ($110.00) per month and one stenog-
rapher clerk at salary of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month, and such clerks
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Ordinance No. 275 Continted)
and employees as he may deem necessary to appoint at a •salary.of Three dollars and a
half ($3.50) per day and'Four Dollars-(04.00) per day each, provided, however,•that
the amount of such salaries and compensations paid to such clerks and employees on a
per diem basis shall not exceed the total sum of Two Hundred and Ninety-five Dollars
($295.00) per annum.
19.: COUNTY LIBRARIAN. The County Librarian, Three Thousand Dollars
($3,000.00) per annum.
20. SUPERVISORS. Each Supervisor shall receive as expenses Supervisor '
and Road Commissioner five and one-half cents (5j¢) per mile each way traveling to
a d from his residence while engaged in the performance of the duties of supervision
of public roads., or other business of the County, said mileage not to exceed Three Hun-
dred Dollars (0300.00) per annum while traveling within the County of Contra Costa and '
in addition thereto shall be allowed at the rate of five and one-half cents (5W per
mile for actual miles traveled without the County of Contra Costa as mileage for the
performance of County business outside the County.
It is further provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to
each supervisor, a sum not to exceed twenty-five percent (250) of his monthly salary
for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office. Each Supervisor• shal
file an itemized statement supported by receipts or vouchers on the first day of each
and every month designating the actual expenditure on his part of expenses necessaril
incurred in the conduct of his said office, for the preceding month, and no allowance
shall be made to any Supervisor for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of
his office unless the same shall be itemized and designated in said claim filed by h
as herein provided. '
21. BONDS. The cost of bonds of County officers, their assistants, depu-
ties and employees, such as required by law to be furnished when executed with a re-
liable bond and surety company, and duly approved shall be a charge against the Count
payable out of the General Fund.
22. -ALLOWANCE FOR ACTUAL AND NECESSARY EXPENSES. Actual, reasonable, and
necessary expenses shall be allowed all the officers of the County and their deputies
in the discharge of their official duties, subject to such limitations as are else-
where herein provided. Detailed expenses accounts must be rendered on the first day
of each month for the expenses incurred in the previous month. For traveling necess-
arily done by automobile, an officer shall be allowed mileage at the rate of five and
one-half cents (5j) per mile, without any constructive mileage and he shall be allowe
his actual traveling expenses when he travels by raid.. '
The salaries and expenses of the officers and their deputies herein set
forth shall be in full compensation for the services required of them as such officer
and deputies in and by virtue of their offices and by law in such case made and pro-
vided, and all other fees, mileage or other remuneration or compensation of any kind
or character received by offioers or their deputies, for or by reason of any duty im-
posed by law on them as such officers and deputies or accruing to them by virtue of
their offices and unless specifically allowed to them herein shall be paid into ,the
County Treasury at such times and in such manner as required'by law, provided, how-
ever, that until such time as the County provides for such officers and makes availa-
ble to their use such numbers of automobiles as are reasonably necessary to carry out
` the duties of their respective office, suoh officers shall be allowed to retain for
(Ordinance No. 275 Continued)
their own use and benefits such mileage as may be allowed by law or hereinbefore set
forth and allowed. .
. 23. SALARIES--HOW PAID. Salaries of all officials, deputies, clerks and am-
loyees herein provided for shall be paid by the county in monthly installments at the
same time and in the same manner, out of the same fundus the salaries of county offi-
Cers are paid, except as herein otherwise ordained; provided, however, that the salary
Ind compensation of all clerks, engineers, copyists and employees of every kind, work-
ing on a per diem basis, shall be paid only upon their filing with, and allowance by
he Board of Supervisors of.-said county of their -duly verified claims for the sum due
them;.provided, further, that at the election of the employee, indicated by written
instructions of •suoh employee, filed by him with the County Auditor, a portion of his
' salary or wages may be paid on his behalf direct to his insurer to cover the amount of
the monthly premium on any insurance contracted for by him under any group insurance
lan arranged by him in conjunction with other employees.
24. The Office of .Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby created
e duties of said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be to aid and assist
the�erformance
Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, in the
of purely clerical duties, not now required by law to be performed by the
�ounty Clerk, as ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, the County Auditor or
the County Surveyor, or either of them. The compensation of said Stenographer to-the
card of Supervisors shall be fixed at One Hundred Ten Dollars (,$110.00) per month,
payable out of the General Fund of said County.
The office of Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors, is hereby cre-
' tea. The duties of said Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be to
aid and assist the said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors in the performance o
her duties. The compensation of said Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors
shall -be fixed at Ten Dollars ($10.00) per month, payable out of the General fund- of
said County.
All ordinances, or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed; and provided, further,
This ordinance shall .take effect and be in force from and after the lst day
of September, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of its
passage the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for and against
the same in the Courier Journal, a newspaper printed and published in the County of
Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of'the County of Contra Costa on the
12 day of July, 1939, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors: 'Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath
NOES: Supervisors: None
ABSENT: Supervisors: Long.
W. J. Buchanan
ATTEST: Chairman or the Board of Superviso s
of the County of Contra Costa,
S. C. Wells State of California.
County Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of'California. '
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ORDINANCE NO. 276.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.~. 275 BEING AN ORDINANCE .
TO REGULATE THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS, OF.THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA' COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMB Mi , APPOINTMENTS,
TERMS, AND COMPENSATION OF DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES THERDJF:
and REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, .OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT THEREWITH.
The Board of -Supervisors of the. County of Contra Costa, State of '
California, do drds.in as follows:
Section 11 of Ordinance No. 275 of the County of Contra Costa, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
11. SHERIFF. The Sheriff, Five thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) per annum;
provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff the followin '
deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Sheriff and shall hold
office at his pleasure, and .shall be paid the following salaries; One Undersheriff
at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars (8250.00) per month; one deputy Sheriff
at a salary of Two hundred and twenty—five, ($225.00) dollars per month; three deputy
sheriffs at a salary of two hundred dollars (5200.00) per month each; one deputy
Sheriff to act as day hailer at a salary of One hundred and seventy—five ($175.00)
Dollars per month; one deputy sheriff to act as night hailer at a salary of one
hundred and seventy—five dollars ($175.00) per month; two deputy sheriffs to act
as Bailiff s at a salary of One hundred eighty—f2ve dollars ($195.00) per month each;
one deputy Sheriff at a salary of one hundred and eighty—five dollars ($195.00)
per month; two deputy Sheriffs at a salary of One hundred and seventy—two dollars
($172.00) per month each; one deputy sheriff oto act as photographer at a salary , '
of One hundred and sixty dollars ($160.00) per month; one deputy Sheriff to act as
radio technician at a salary of One hundred and Seventy—five dollars ($175.00) per
month; two deputy sheriffs �t a salary of One hundred and sixty dollars ($160.00)
dollars per month, each; four deputy sheriffs at a salary of One hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) per month, each; one deputy Sheriff to act as superintendent
of the jail Branch at a salary of One hundred and seventy—five dollars ($175.00)
per month; two deputy sheriffs to act as guard 'at the fail branch at a salary of on
hundred and fifty dollars (4150.00) per month, each; one secretary at a salary
of One hundred and thirty dollars 0130.00) per month; one fail matron at a salary
of One hundred and ten dollars ($110.00) per month; provided, further, that the
Sheriff:may employ from one to five persons to act as deputy sheriffs at a salary
of Four and 50/100 dollars ($4.50) per day, when, in the Judgment of the Sheriff,
such deputies are necessary; provided, however, that the total amount of the eompen '
sation wr .suoh additional deputies to be paid per diem shall not in any fiscal year
exceed the total sum of Eight hundred dollars ($900.00); and provided, further
that the Sheriff may employ extra guards at the fail branch at a salary of Five
and 00/100 dollars ($5.00) per day, when, in the judgment of the Sheriff such guard ,
are necessary; provided, however, that the total amount of the compensation for such
extra guards to be paid per diem shall not in any fiscal year exceed the total 'sum
of One three hundred dollars ($1300.00) ; provided Further that the
compensation of such last mentioned deputies and.extra guards shall be.paid upon
presentation of duly itemized verified claims filed with the Board of .Supervisors
of said County, in the same manner that other claims are filed and paid.
There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff to be by him
retained for his own use all mileage for service of papers in civil actions
arising ;either'in,or, outside of the County, excepting:•aotions in whioh the county
is, ,interestLid, and also all mileage.in-crim nal.' cases for each mile actually and
necessarily traveled by automobiles-at the rate of ..five and one-half cents ( 5*0 )
per mile; all fees collected by the Sheriff for the services of the papers and
processes in civil matters shall be collected by the Sheriff for the use and benefit
of the County and shall by him be paid into the County Treasury at such times and
manner as required by law.
All ordinances, or parte of ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance
are hereby repealed; and provided, further,
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 1st day
of September, 1939, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of its
passage the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for and
against the same in the Contra Costa Standard,a newspaper, printed and published
in the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County.of Contra Costa on the
27th day of July, 1939, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors song, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes! Supervisors- None.
Absent: Supervisors- None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
Chalydgn of the Board of Supervisors,
of the County of Contra 9osta,
ATTEST: S.C. WELLS, State of California.
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Codta, State of
' California.
ORDINANCE NO. 277.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PARKING UPON EAST THIRD STREET
EXTENSION, A PUBLIC HIGHWAY OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA
COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORMA, OUTSIDE OF INCORPORATED
CITIES.
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: It shall be unlawful for any person to park or stand .arty
vehicle on the north side of East Third Street Extension east of the city limits of
the.City of Pittsburg, County of Contra Costa, State of California, between "No Park
Ing "signs located on said north side of said East Third Street extension, between tt e
' eastern limits of said City to a point where the western curb line of Harbor Street
would be if said street were extended north in a straight line.
SECTION II. PENALTY. Any person violating any of the terms of this
Ordinance shall be guilty of,a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished
by a fine of not exceeding fifty.dollars (050.00) or by imprisonment in the County
not
Jail for/more than five (5) days; for the second offense within the period of one
year's time, by a fine not to exceed One hundred dollars (0100.00) or by imprisonment
in the County Jail for not. more than ten (10) days, or both; for the third offense
committed within one year, by a fine not to exoeed•five hundred dollars (($500.00),
..or by imprisonment for a period of note to.exoeed six (6) months in the County Jail,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION TTI. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the
date of its adoption, and prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the
ypassage :hereof shall be published for at least one (1) week in the Pittsburg
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ORDINANCE NO. 278
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DEFINING AND ESTABLISH-
ING CERTAIN TEMPORARY LAND USE DISTRICTS:
APPLYING CERTAIN TEMPORARY. REGULATIONS AS
TO -THE USE OF LAND, BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES
AND TO THE EREOTION, CONSTRUCTION, AND
ALTERATION OF STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVE-
MENTS PLACED ON CERTAIN LANDS,. PENDING THE
ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF A
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN:
AND PRESORIBING THE METHOD OF ENFORCEMENT
' IN ESTABLISHING SAID INTER3X LAND USE DIS-
TRICTS AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF ANY
PROVISIONS HEREOF.
The Hoard of Supervisors of Contra Costa County do ordain as follows:
' SECTION 1: GENERAL PURPOSES FOR ADOPTION OF .•INTERIM LAND USE DISTRICTS:
The County Planning Oommission of the County of •Oontra:.COsta shall proceed '
to prepare a Zoning and Distrioting•Plan as part of the Land Use Plan of th@
Masted Plan of said County, in the Manner prescribed by law, and shall submit to the
Board of Supervisors of said County the reports thereon and their recommendations
for land use regulations for the unincorporated territory of the Oounty of Contra
Costa. Said Board of Supervisors hereby declares it to•be its intention to proceed
with sound consideration of the aforesaid Master Plan, and said County Planning Com-
mission shall prepare reports, ordinances, and plans for the said comprehensive
Land Use Plan and shall recommend the same to the said Board for their adoption as
official plans.
Owing to the wide extent of the unincorporated territory of said County
in which it is desirable to formulate a definite, orderly and harmonious land use
control, and where there are now definite land uses which have become existent over
a considerable period of. time by circumstances both human and geographic; said Board
of Supervisors hereby finds and considers that a oarefhl analysis and study of the
facts pertaining to the reasons for the existing land uses and their possible
future extent, will of necessity requires, long period of time for study before said
Land Use Master Plan or any substantial part thereof will be prepared and adopted.
Said Board, in consideration of the future plan, further recognizes that
the existing land uses and conditions are established by reason of definite physical
i
characteristics Which formulate a basic pattern for apyunified control and for the
harmonious and orderly development of said County. Said Boardlhereby determines
that .-the future orderly development shall begin at the time of the adoption of this
' ordinance by establishing Interim Land Use Districts.
Said Board of Supervisors hereby finds it desirable to protect the areas
of higher land use value from.future dispersion of any detrimental uses by adopting
Interim Land Use Districts and establishing land use classification as it now
generally exists at the time of the adoption of this ordinance, thereby unifying the
orderly control of the future development of these areas up to and including the time
of the adoption of the precise Distrioting Plan.
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County in recognition of the
aforesaid conditions, and the further necessities for human habitation, living and
working conditions in all of the hereinafter dstablished Interim Land Use Districts,
finds it further desirable to protect the character and stability of the unincorpora-
ted rural areas, the public health, safety, comfort, and �nvenience, and to preserve
the general prosperity and welfare heretofore established, pending the preparation
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and the adoption ofthe aforesaid.preoise Distrioting or..Zoning Plan as a part of
the Master Plan of Contra Costa County, Said regulations for establishing Interim
Land Use Districts arehereinafter in this ordinance set forth.
SECTION 2: THE DEFINITIONS PERTAINING TO- ALL-SECTIONS OF THE INTERIM
LAND USE DISTRICTS ORDINANCE: For the purpose of the Interim Land Use Districts
Ordinance certain words and terms are defined as follows, and the definitions set
up for these words and terms shall apply to the terms used in any ordinance adopting
a temporary Zoning or Distrioting Plan, or any part thereof, for any portion of the ,
unincorporated territory for the County of Contra Costa, State of California, or for
any ordinance relating thereto.
SECTION 2a: For the purposes of this ordinance all words ih the present
tense shall include the future; all words in the plural number shall include the
singular number, and all words in the singular number shall include all words in the ,
plural number; the word "shall" is mandatory and not directory; the word "County"
shall mean County of Contra Costa, State of California; the words "Board of Super-
visors" or "Board" shall mean Board of Supervisors of the County of Oontra Oosta,
State of California; the words "Planning Commission" shall mean the County Planning
Commission of the County of Contra Costa; the words"boundary" or "district boundary"
shall mean the boundary of any Interim Land Use District as hereinafter in this
ordinance set forth.
SEOTION 2b: Words and terms used in this ordinance are herewith defined
as follows:
1. AN INTERIM RESIDENTIAL. AGRIOULTURAL DISTRICT shall mean a district
in which the following uses shall be permitted; one family dwellings, multiple
dwellings and dwelling, groups having accomodations for not more than four families, '
and automobile courts subject to the securing of a use permit, general farming in-
cluding all types of horticulture, dairying, livestock, poultry 'raising, hog raising
for the disposing of surplus agrioulturiil products, temporary stands or shelters
for the display and sale of agricultural products on the premises, temporary or
permanent quarters for farm help, house trailer camps for farm help, and any other
similar enterprises or any use indigenous to the carrying on of agricultural
pursuits, except that in any Interim Residential Agricultural District hereinafter
set forth no farms operated for the disposal of garbage, sewage, rubbish or offal
and rendering plants, hog raising for the feeding of garbage, or tourist house
trailer camps shall ever be permitted, and no outdoor advertising structure or sign
shall ever be permitted except official notices issued by a subdivider, signs or
outdoor advertising structures for the sale, lease, or rent of any real property, '
signs or outdoor advertising structures used for the designation of the name of any
owner or occupant of any premises or real property or to identify such premises,
signs or outdoor advertising structures used to advertise the business rendered or
goods produced and sold upon any property, or notices posted by any public officer
in performance of a public duty or by any person giving any legal notice. Other ,
uses may be established if a permit is secured from the County Board of Supervisors
if in the opinion of said Board they are similar in character to the uses herein-
before enumerated and permitted or are necessary to the fulfillment of any enterprise
above enumerated and will not, in the opinion of said Board, be detrimental to the
immediate neighborhood or public welfare.
2. AN INTERIM NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT shall mean a district in
which all uses are permitted as permitted in the Interim Residential Agricultpral Di triot
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subject to the securing of a.use permit for any use for which a use permit is re-
quired in the Interim Residential Agricultural District. Other uses permitted shall
be general businesses which are required as a necessity for the convenience of the
residents of adjoining districts for the purpose of securing living commodities, and
shall be inclusive of the following types of business: retail stores and shops, -auto
mobile service stations, bakeries, banks, barbershops, beauty parlors, retail dry
cleaning establishments, laundry agencies, professional offices, public and storage
garages, telegraph'offiees, public utilities offices, theaters, hospitals, sanit ariums,
rest homes, clinics and other establishments for the treatment of,human ailments may
bb established if a permit is secured from,the County Board of Supervisors if in the
opinion of said Board they are similar in character to the uses hereinbefore enumer-
ated and will not .be detrimental to the immediate neighborhood or public welfare.
In any Interim Neighborhood Business District as hereinafter set forth no junk yard,
tourist house trailer camp, garbage disposal plant, hog ranch for the feeding of
garbage or disposal plant of any type shall ever be established by a permit by the
Board of Supervisors, and no outdoor advertising structure or sign shall ever be
permitted except official notices issued by a subdivider; signs or outdoor advertis-
ing structures for the sale, lease, or rent of any real property; signs or outdoor
advertising structures used for the designation of the name of any owner or occupant
of any premises or real property or to identify such premises; signs or outdoor ad-
vertising structures used to advertise the business rendered or goods produced and
sold upon any property; or notices posted by any public officer in performance of a
public duty or by any person giving any legal notice.
3. HOUSE TRAILER is a vehicle designed for carrying persons and/or
' property and for human habitation on its own structure and for being drawn by a
motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon any other
Vehicle. Any such vehiole so constructed and/or intended shall remain defined as a
house trailer for the proposes of this ordinance even though its means of movement
or trailing has been removed and a permanent structure or blocking placed beneath.
4. HOUSE TRAILER CAMP FOR FARM HELP is land or premises which is used
or intended to be used, let or rented for occupancy by or for house trailers which
trailers are occupied by farm help, fruit pickers or similar workmen which are so
occupied for a temporary harvesting period, such use of land or premises being
discontinued at the end of the working period.
5. TOURIST HOUSE TRAILER CAMP is land or premises which is used or in-
tended to be used, let or rented for occupancy by one or more house trailers or
' moveable dwellings, rooms or sleeping quarters of any kind.
6. AUTOMOBILE COURT is a group of two or more detached or semi-detached
buildings containing guest rooms and/or apartments, with automobile storage space
provided in connection therewith, which are used, let or rented for occupancy by
campers traveling by automobile or otherwise but not land or premises for occupancy
by house trailers or movable dwellings, rooms.or sleeping quarters of any kind.
SECTION 3: ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS: For the purpose of promoting the
public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare, portions of Contra
Costa County may hereby be established as Interim Land Use Districts known as:
1. Interim Residential Agricultural District.
2. Interim Neighborhood Business District.
All that portion of the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra
Costa, State of California, which lies within that below described territory is
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herewith established as an, Interim-Residential Agricultural District:.
Beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot 13 of the Rancho Las.
Juntas; thence South along the East line of Lot 13 to the
Northwest corner of the Gertrude R.iSlater property; thence
Easterly, Northerly and Easterly along the said Slater prop-
erty to a point inihe center of Grayson Creek; which point
is also on the center line of Grayson Creek; thence up the
center,line of Grayson Creek, to its interseotion with the
South line of the David Roche 160 Acre tract; thence Wester-
ly along the South boundary of said David Roche Tract to the
center line of Grayson Creek; thence up the center line of
. Grayson Creek to its intersection with the center line of
the Pleasant Hill Road, namely County Road C-1; thence con- '
tinuing up.the center line.of Grayson Creek to.a point
thereon which is 300 feet Westerly and at right angles to
the center line of the above mentioned road; .thenoe North-
westerly along a line parallel to and a distance of X00
feet-Westerly from the center line of said Pleasant Hill
Road to its intersection with the line establishing the
division between Supervisorial Districts Numbers 2•and 3;
thenad Westerly along said Supervisorial Districts' line
to the West boundary of the Pacheco Grammar School District; '
thence Northwesterly along said Grammar School District line•
and said line extended to the most Westerly corner of the
property.of John H. Zoeher, et. al.; thence Northeasterly,
Northerly and Northeasterly along the Southern boundary of
the lands of Mabel A. Grey to a point which is 300 feet
Southwesterly from-the above mentioned Pleasant Hill Road;
thence Northwesterly along a line parallel to and 300 feet
Southwesterly from the center line of the above mentioned
Pleasant Hill Road to a point on the South line of the
property of A. E. Gilbert; thence along said line extended
Northeasterly to its intersection with the center line of
the above mentioned Pleasant Hill Road at or near the most
Westerly corner of the lands of Eva M. Mellerup; thence
Easterly along the North and East line of said Eva M.
Mellerupp property to a point 200 feet Northerly from County
Road 0-4, commonly known as Tompkins Road, thence Easterly
and parallel to the center line of the said Road to a point
on the West line of the lands of William P.' Coward; thence
Northerly, Easterly and Southerly along the property linea
of said William P. Coward; thence along said line extended
Southerly to the Northwest corner of Lot 13 of the Raiicho
Las Juntas; thence Easterly along said lot line to the
Northeast corner thereof and the point of beginning.
Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the various '
districts, the Planning Commission shall, upon written application or upon its own
motion, determine and define the same and their decision shall be binding for the
purpose and enforcement of this ordinance.
No use of land, building or other structure which use is not allowed
within any Interim Land Use District as defined in this ordinance or uses accessory
and incidental thereto, shall hereafter be established or established and conducted,
and no building or other structure which is designed and/or intended to be used for
any purpose other than as allowed within any Interim Land Use District as defined
in this ordinance or uses ; accessory and incidental thereto, shall hereafter be
erected, constructed, moved or converted within any Interim Land Use District, as
hereinaftdr in this ordinance set forth, unless and until, in any such case, a permit
for such establishing or establishing and conducting or for suoh ereotion, construct-
ion, moving or conversion shall first have been secured from the Board of Supervisors '
of said County. Application for any such permit shall be made to the County Clerk
of said County and shall be accompanied by plans of any proposed building-or struotur ,
together with drawings showing a plot plan of the taxable unit up6n which the
structure is to be placed, with the front, sides, and rear elevations thereof. Said ,
application shall be transmitted by said Oounty Clerk to the County Planning Com-
mission, which shall consider the same and shall report its recommendations with
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respect thereto tb the Hoard of Supervisors. Notice of the time and place at which
said application shall be considered by the Planning Commission shall be given by at
least one publication in a newspaper of general circulation and the posting of public
notices at 500 foot intervals on all public highways, roads, and ways within 2000
feet of the boundaries of the property on which the potential use is proposed to be
located and/or constructed and/or,maintained.; All publioa.tions and notiaea shall be
given or posted at least five days prior to the day at which the .PlanAing Commission
shall consider saidapplication. • Said Board of Supervisors shall consider such'
application and report at its next succeeding meeting following receipt of such
report from the. County Planning Commission. Said Board of Supervisors may issue such
permit if in the opinion of said Board the posposed building, structure or use will
not be in conflict with the purpose of this ordinance, or said Board of Supervisors
' may refuse to issue such permit, or may issue such permit subject to specified con-
ditions designed to ,aoeomplish the purposesof this ordinance.
SECTION 4: COMPLETION tLDD RESTORATION QF EXISTING BUILDINGS: No building
or structure, the construction of which has'been heretofore commenced but which has
' not.been completed at the time of the adoption of this ordinance, shall hereafter be
completed for any purpose other than for the use prescribed in the Interim Land Use
Districts as set forth in this ordinance or any amendments thereto, or uses accessory
and incidental thereto within any Interim Land Use District, as hereinafter in this
ordinance set forth, unless and until, in any such case, a permit for such completion
shall first have been secured from the Board of Supervisors of said County. The pro-
cedure for securing any such permit shall be the same as that provided -for in Section
3 of this ordinance.
SECTION 5: NON-OONFORMING USES The lawful use of any building or premises
existing at the time of the adoption of this ordinance, although such use does not
conform to the provisions hereof, may be continued, but if such non-conforming use is
discontinued, any future use of .the said building or premises shall be in conformity
with the provisions of this ordinance.
' The non-oonforming use of a building or premises may be changed to another
non-oonforming use of the same or higher classification. Whenever a non-conforming
use of a building or premises has been changed to a more restricted use, such use
shall not thereafter be changed to a less restricted use.
Whenever district boundaries or regulations shall hereafter be changed,
any then existing non-.conforming use in such changed district may be continued or
changed to a use permitted in the same district as that in which the existing use is
permitted, provided that all other regulations governing the new use are complied
with.
SECTION 6: INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION: In interpreting and applying
the provisions of this ordinance, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements
for the promotion of public health, safety and general welfare.
It is not intended by this ordinance to interfere with, abrogate or annul
any existing easements, covenants, or other agreements between parties, nor is it
intended by this ordinance to repeal, abrogate, annul or in any way to impair or
interfere-.with any existing provisions of law or ordinance or any rules, regulations
' or permits previously adopted, or issued, or which shall be adopted or issued pursuan
to law, relating to the use of buildings or premises; provided, however, that where
this ordinance imposes a greater restriction upon the use of buildings or premises
than is imposed or required by such existing provisions of law or ordinance or by
such rules, regulations, agreements, covenants, or permits, the provisions of this
ordinance shall control.
SECTION 7: , ADMINISTRATION. ENFOROEUENT, LEGAL PROOEDURE, AND PENALTIES:
All departments, officials and public employees of the County of Contra Costa which
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are vested with the duty or authority to issue-permits.or licenses shall conform to
the provisions of this ordinance and shall issue no such permit or license for uses,
buildings, or purpose if the same would be in conflict with the provisions of this
ordinanee, �and any such permit or. lieense, if issued in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance, shall be null and void.
It shall be the duty of the Sheriff of the County of Contra Costa and of
all officers of said County charged by law with the enforcement of this ordinance to
enforce this ordinance and all the provisions of the same. '
Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or
otherwise, violating or causing or permitting the violation of any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Three Hundred .($300.00) Dollars or by
imprisonment in the County Jail of said County for a term not exceeding three (3)
months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such person, firm or corporation shall
be deemed to be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any por-
tion of which any violation of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted
by such person, firm or corporation, and shall be punishable as herein provided.
Any building or structure set up, erected, eonstrudted, altered, enlarged,
converted, moved or maintained contrary to the provisions of this ordinance and/or
any use of any land, building or premises established, conducted, operated or main-
tained contrary to the provisions of this ordinance shall be and the same is hereby
declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance and the District Attorney of said
County shall, upon order of the Board of Supervisors, immediately commence action or
proceedings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment thereof in the manner pro-
vided by law and shall take:.suoh other steps and shall apply to such court dr courts ,
as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate and remove such building
or structure and restrain and enjoin any person, firm or corporation from setting up,
erecting, building, maintaining or using any such building or structure or using any
property contrary to the provisions of this ordinance.
The remedies provided for therein shall be cumulative and not exclusive.
SECTION $: VALIDITY: If any section, sub-seotion, sentence, clause or
phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, such'deeision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this ordinance. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, sub-section,
sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, sub-seotions, sentences, clauses or phrases be held invalid. '
SECTION 10: ENACTMENT AND ADOPTION: This ordinance is hereby declared to
be an urgency measure and shall take effect and shall be in full force immediately
upon its adoption and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall be published
with the names of the members voting for and against the same for one (1) weep in the
Contra Costa Standard, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in ,
said County. The donditions constituting such urgency are as follows, to=wit:
Certain uses of land, buildings and structures would, if established and conducted
within any Interim Land Use District established by this ordinance, be a menace to
?_ the publio.health, safety and general welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby
finds that various persons.intend to erect buildings or structures and use the same
and to use land for such purposes, and will do so unless restrained therefrom. The
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immediate operation of this ordinanoe-is therefore necessary in order to protect the
public health, safety and general welfare.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisor
of the County of Contra Costa at a Regular. Adjourned session of said Board, held on
the 29• day of April, 1940, by the following vote to-wit:
AYES: Supervisors: Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath
' NOES: Supervisors: None.
ABSENT: Supervisors: None.
W.J.BUCHANAN
' Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
of the County of Contra Costa, State
of California.
ATTEST:
S. CIL VItEf Lsi
County Clerk and Ex-officio Olerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of
California.
ORDINANCE NOL 279.
AN ORDINANCE OF THECOUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHI G
' THE OFFICES OF COUNTY FIRE WARDENS AND E STABLISHING REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO FIRES
AND FIRE MENACES, PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS TO MEANS OF EGRESS AND ACCUMULATION OF
RUBBISH. IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ABSEMBrAGE,'PROHIBITING INTERFERENCE WITH DUTIES OF
FIREMEN.AND,FIRE EQUIPMENT, REGULATING PARKING AT FIRES IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA
OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA NOT WITHIN ANY COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT OR OTH
FIRE DISTRICT, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF ANY OF THE. PROVISIONS THME F.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. There shall be two County Fire Wardens in the County of Contra
Costa, State of California, vAio shall be ,appointed by the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa, hold office at the pleasure of said Board and receive
such compensation for their services as may be fixed by said Board..
SECTION 2: The County Fire Wardens may appoint such deputy Fire Wardens
as may in their opinion be needed, who shall consist of Fire chiefs of duly organize
fire departments or fire districts,' and such other persons as may be designated by
' said County Fire Wardens, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the County Warden
appointing them respectively, and who shall receive such compensation as may be fix-
ed by the Board-of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa.
SECTION 3: The Deputy Fire Wardens shall act for and on behalf of the Cou ty
Fire Wardens in the carrying out and enforcement of the provisions of this ordinance
SECTION 4: It shall be the duty of the Fire Wardens and their deputies
to cooperate with'all fire departments in the extinguishing of fires, -to supervise,,
the burning of brush, grass and other inflamable material in open fields and suburbs
and town lots, to have supervision over fire prevention, the issuance of fire permitf ,
And the enforcement of all fire laws in the unincorporated section of the County of
Contra Costa not included within any county Fire Protection District, Fire District,
State or Federal lands.
SECTION 5. The Board of Supervisors may by resolution establish two dis-
'tricts within the unincorporated area of the County of ContrL* Costa, designated in
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Section 4 of this Ordinand"e, and may,:assign''eaoh';County, Warden and his deputies to
one of said respeotive districts; provided,;however, that nothing.herein contained
shall prevent one Fire Warden or his deputies from assisting the other Fire Marden
or his deputies in the District of--the latter in case of•necessity.
SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to build, light, maintain
or cause or permit to be built, lighted or maintained any open or outdoor fire at ,
a distance within one hundred (100) feet of any building or inflamable structure
in the unincorporated section of the County of Contra Costa designated in Section 4
of this ordinance, without a written permit first granted by a County Fire Warden
or one of his deputies; provided, howeven that such pexmit is not necessary for
the burning of any flamable material in an incinerator constructed of non-combustibl '
material, completely enclosed and equipped with a spark arrester of wire, metal
screen, or equivalent, having a mesh or holes not to exceed one-quarter (1/4) inch,
or any ppark arrester which is designed to provide the equivalent protection.
SECTION 7. It shall be unlawful for any person's or persons, firm, co-part-
nership, corporation, or association, to set fire to, burn, or cause to be burned,
within the boundaries of the unincorporated seetiorr of the County of Contra Costa
designated in Section 4 of this ordinance, any brush, stumps, logs, fallen timber,
fallows, slash, grass, grain, brush, or brush covered lands without first having ob-
tained a written permit granted by a County Fire Warden or one of his deputies, vdiio
permit Ehall state the time of day when such burning shall be done.
SECTION 9: It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, or cause or
permit to be left, any outdoor or open fire unattended by any adult person in the ,
unincorporated section of the County of Contra, Costa designated in Section 4 of this
ordinance. Before leaving any such fire, such person or persons in charge of such
fire shall thoroughly extinguish same by completely covering it with dirt, saturatint
it with water, or otherwise treating it in such manner to prevent rekindl;.ng of such
fire.
SECTIM 9: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, oorpor t-
ion or assooiation to place or maintain or to cause or permit to be placed or main-
tained, any obstruction, whether permanent or movable, before or upon any fire escap ,
exit, foyer, aisle, passageway corridor, or any other means of egress from any theati e,
church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblag ,
while open to the public, in the unincorporated section of the County of Contra
Costa, designated in Section 4 of this ordinance.
No pdrsons shall be allowed to stand in the aisles or passageways during any ,
time such a building, or place, is being used for public assemblage.
All exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during the
use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened in
any manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which doors and hard-
ware shall be maintained to open freely.
SECTION 10: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporat-
ion, or assooiation to accumulate, or to cause or permit the accumulation of rubbish,
rags, paper or other inflamable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital, auditorllumy
meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblage in the unincorporated sectio
of the County of Contra Costa designated in Section 4 of this ordinance, in such manrer
as to constitute a fire menace.
SECTION li: It shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the lawful orders
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of any publio offi cer, fireman, County FirWarden or deputy County Fire.Wardea .in
the immediate vicinity of the burning of.brash, stumps, dogs, fallen timber, fallow ,
slash, grass, grain, brush or forest covered land, or any other inflsmaae material
in the.uninoorporated section of the County of Contra Costa designated in Section 4,
of this Ordinance, or offer any resistance to or interfere with the lawful efforts
of any public officer, fireman, or company of firemen, to extinguish the same,
' or engage in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extin
guished,or forbid, prevent or dissuade others from assisting to extinguish the same.
SECTION 12: It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive, or pro—
Pal any vehicle or conveyance upon, over, or across any fire hose or chemical hose
' used by or in charge of any fireman or company of firemen in the unincorporated
section of the County of Pontra Costa, designated in Section 4 of this ordinance,
or to injure or damage in any manneranysuch hose or fire apparatus of any kind.
SECTION 13: It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle
upon any street or highway within three hundred (300) feet of any burning building,
or other burning structure, in the unincorporated section of the County of Contra
Costa, designated in Section 4 of this ordinance, provided, however, that this
section shall not apply to vehicles of police officers, firemen or any owner, tenant
or other occupant of such building or structure, or any authorized agents of such
owner, tenant or other occupant.
SECTION 14: Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine
not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six
months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every separate act or transaction
In violation of this ordinance shall be desned a separate offense.
SECTION 15: This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty
(30) days after its passage, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after
Its passage shall be published with the names of the members voting for and against
the same for one week in the Crockett Signal, a newspaper published in the County of
ContrR Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa,
on the 6th day of May, 1940, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, �uchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
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W. J. BUCHANAN
UHAIR1dAN OF THE BOARD OF UPERVI IORS
of the County of Contra Costa,
ATTEST: S. C. VOLLB. State of California.
. .County Clerk and ex—officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa,' State of Calif ornia.
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ORDINANCE NO. 280.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MOUNT DIABLO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT OF THE
COUNTY-OF CCNTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS
PERTAINING TO FIRES AND FIRE MENACES, PRCHIQ1TING OBSTRUCTIO14B
TO MEANS CP EGRESS AND ACCUMULATIONS OF RUBBISH IN PLACES CF
PUBLIC ASSEMBLAGE, PROHIBIr3NG INTERFERENCE WITH THE DUTIES OF
FIREMEN AND FIRE EQUIPMENT, REGULATING PARKING AT FIRES, AND
PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS
THEREOF'.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, do ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1: It drall be unlawful for any person to build, light,
maintain, or cause or permit to be built, lighted or maintained any open or outdoor
fire at a distance within one hundred (100) feet of any building or inflamable ,
structure, in the Mount Diablo Fire Protection District of the County of Contra
Costa, State of California, without a written permit first granted by the Chief of
the Fire Department of the Mount Diablo Fire Protection District of the.County of
Contra Costa, State of California, or member of said Fire Department authorized by
said Chief to issue such permit; provided, however,..that such permit is not necessary
for the burning of any inflamable material in an incinerator constructed of non-
o6mbustible material, completely enclosed and equipped with a spark arrester of wire,
metal screen, or equivalent, having a mesh or holes not to exceed one-quarter (1/4)
inch, or any spar: arrester which is designed to provide the equivalent protection.
SECTION 2: It shall be unlawful for any person, or persons, firm,
co-partnership, corporation or association, to set fire to, burn, or cause to be
burned, within the boundaries of the Mt.D.iablo Fire Protection District, any brush,
stumps, logs, fallen timber, fallows,. slash, grass, grain, brush or brush covered '
lards without first having obtained a written permit from the Chief of the Fire
Department of the Districtor from a member of said Fire Department authorized by said
Ohief to issue such a permit; which permit shall state the time of day when such
burning shall be done.
SECTION 3: It shall be unlawful for any person to leave or cause or
permit to be left, any outdoor or open fire unattended by any adult person in the
Mount Diablo Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Cosh4, State of Cal-
ifornia, Before leaving any such fire, such person or persons in charge of such
fire shall thoroughly extinguish same by completely covering it with dirt, saturatirg
it with water, or otherwise treating it in such manner to prevent rekindling of Such
fire.
SECTION 4: It ehall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership '
corporation or association to place or maintain, or to cause or permit to be
placed or maintained, any obstruction, whether permanent or movable, before or
upon any fire esoape, exit, foyer, aisle, passageway, corridor, or any cthei� means o
egress from any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place
used for public assemblage, while open to the public, in the Mount Diablo Fire '
Protection District of the County of Cortra.Costa, State of California.,
No persons shall be allowed to stand in the aisles .or paseage-ways,
dur,%'hg any time such a building, or place, is being used for public assemblage.
All exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during
the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened
In any manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which doors and
hardware shall be paintained to open freely.
SECTION 5: It shall be unlawful for any person,firm, copartnership,
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corporation, or associSion to accumulate, -or:-.to,cause or permit the. accumulation of
rubbish,,.:rags, paper or other :intlamable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital
atfttorJlmp meeting :hal]., or other place used for public a'sssoblai in the Mount
Diablo Fire Protection District of"the County. of Contra Costa,' State of California,
in such manner as to constitute a fire menage:
SECTS ION 6t it shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the lawful,
orders of any public'officer or fireman in the immediate vicinity of the burning
of brush, stumps, logs, fallen timber, follows, slash, girass> grain, brush or
forest covered land, or any other inflamable material in the Mount Diablo Fire
Protection District of the'County of Contra Costa, State of California, or offer
' any resistance to or interfere with the lawful efforts of any public-officer, fire—
man, or company of firemen to extinguish the sax's, or ergage in any disorderly
oodduot calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or forbid, prevent
or dissuade others from assisting-to extinguish the same.
SECTION T: It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive, or props
any vehiole lor'o'onveyance upon, over, or across any fire hose or chemical hose
used by or in charge of arty fireman or company of firemen in the Mount Diablo Fire
Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, or to incur
br damage in any manner any such hose or fire apparatus of any kind.
SECTION S: It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle
upon any street*or 'highway within -three hundred (300) feet of any burning building,
or other burning structure, in the Mount Diablo Fire Protection District of the
' County of Contra Costa, State of California, provided, however, that this neotion
shall not apply to vehicles of police officers, firemen or any ovmr, tanent or othe
occupant of such building, 'or structure, or any authorized agents of such owner,
tenant or other occupant.
SECTION 9t Arq person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of & misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a f ine
not exceeding Five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Every separate act or transaction
in violation of this Ordinance shall be deened a separate offense.
SECTION 10: This ordinance shall be posted in three of the most public
places in the District for a period of two (2) weeks, at the end of which time it
shall be a law for the government of the .inhabitants of the Mount Diablo Fire
Protection District,
Dated: may 6th, 194.0. W. J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, State
of California.
JAMES N. LONG
H. L. CUW=GS.
RALPH BOLLMAN
R. J. TREMBATH.
.ATTEST,' S.C. WELLS,
COUNTYGMK aD E,} FF I0 G;T,ERK
OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
COUNTY OF 00I4TRA COSTA, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
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ORDINANCE N0.-.Mv, s;
AN'CCRDIlIANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 278 of THE COUNTY OF;
CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED RAN ORDINANCE,
OF•;THE40UNTY OF CCNTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEFINING
4 AND.:tSTABLISHING CERTAIN TEMPORARY LAND USE DISTRICTS:
r APPLYINWCERTAIN TEMPORARY REGULATIONS AS.TO THE USE OF LAND,_
BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND TO THE ERECTION, CONSTBUCTICN,
AND AUTERATION OF STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVEMENTS' PLACED
ON CERTAIN LANDS, PENDING THE ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
r`. OF A COMPREHENSIVE ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN: AND PRESCRIB114G "
THE MErHOD OF ENFORCEMENT IN ESTABLISHING SAID INTERIM LAND USE
DISTRICTS AND PENALTIES FCR VIOLATIONS, OF ANY PROVISIONS HEREOF,N:
BY ADDING A NEW SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 3a AND THEREBY
ESTABLISHING;INTERIM LAND USE D3BTRICT,S IN Q4X GROVE AND VICINITY
? AND IN A PORTION OF THE VINE HILL GRAMLlAAR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, do ordain as:
.follows, to wit: 1
ORDINANCE NOf, 278• entitled 4n,Ordinance of the County of Contr•&,Costa,
State of California,' defining and establishing certain temporary .land•use districts;
applying certain temporary. regulations 'as to the use of land, buildings, structures
and tothe erection, construction,, and alterationof structures and, to.the 'improve- ,
meets .placed`on certain lands:, pending the adoption by the.Board of Supervisors of
a comprehensive• zoning-or districting plan; and•presdribina the method'of enforce-
menu in establishing said•Interim land Use.Distriots and pemltie's for 'violation of
Any'prodisions hereof; passed and adopted 'by the Board of Supervisors of t1* County
of Coritra%Costa, on the 29th day.-of.-April, 19110,• isr"hereby amended •by adding a neer
sect iory-to'be. known as Section 3a, whioh"said Section 3a shall follow immediately,
after said S•eotton 3, and ;which sha11"read as follows:
SECTION 1: .ESTABLISH6WT OF DISTRICTS: Section 3ft; Interim Land Use
DisCriots are herb by established for all that portion of the unincorporated territory '
of the. County of Contra Costa, State of California, as designated and delineated
upon two maps, one entitled and designated as an ~Interim Lard Use Districts Map of
Oak.(rove and Vicinity~ and a second Map entitled an ~Interim hand Use Districts Map
for .a.-portion of -the-Fine-Hill Grammar School District", which said Maps are-herewith
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made a part of this ordinance and are so designated by certificates on the face of
the maps, and at the time of the adopt ion of this ordinance, said maps shall be
filed permanently. in the office of the County Clerk of the County of Contra Costa.
Photostatic copies of said maps are-likewise made a part of this ordinance and hereby
became pages 3 and 4 of this ordinance and are certified by the County Clerk to be,
true andexact copies of the original maps.
SECTION 2: ENACTMENT AND ADOPTICN: This Ordinance is hereby declared
to be an urgency measure and shall take offact and shall be in full force immediately ,
upon 2;s adopt ion and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall be published,
together with maps accompanying the said ordinance, with the names of the members
voting for and against the same for one (1) week in the Concord Transcript, a news-
paper of general oirculation printed and published in said County. The Conditions
constituting such urgency, are as follows, to wit : Certain uses of land, buildings ,
and structures would, if established and conducted within any Interim Land Use Dis-
triot established by this ordinance be a menace to the public health, safety and
general welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby finds that various persons intend
to erect buildings ar structures aril to use the same and to use land for such pur-
poses, and will do so unless restrained therefromii The immediate operation- of this
ordinance is therefore necessary in order to protect the public health, safety and
gene ral welfare.
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ORDniANCE NO.. 2g2,
AN ORDINANCE OF THE MT. VIEW FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT CF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISiING
REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO FIRES AND FIRE.MENACE$, PROHIBITING
OBSTRUCTIONS TO MEANS OF EGRESS AND ACCUMULATIONS OF RUBBISH IN
PLACES OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLAGE, PROHIBITING INTERFERENCE 13TH THE
DUTIES OF FIREMEN AND FIRE-EQUIPMENT: REGULATING PARKING All FIRES
AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS
THERE CF.
' The Board.of Supervisors•of the-County of Contra Costa, the governing body
of the Mt.• View Fire Protection District, do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1.
It 'shall be unlawful for any person to build, .light, maintain, or cause or
' permit to be built, lighted or maintained any open or outdoor fire at a distance
within one hundred (100) feet of any building or inflamable structure in the Mt.
View Tire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of Ualifornia,
without a written permit first granted by the Chief of the Fire Department of the'M .
View Fire Protection Disttict of the County of Contra Costa, State of California.,
provided however, that such permit is not necessary for the burning of any inflamable
material in an incinerator constructed of non-oumbustible mat6rial, completely encl s-
ed and equipped with a spark arrester of wire, metal screen, or equivalent,having
a mesh or holes not to exceed one-quarter (1/4) inch, or any spark arrester which
is designed to provide the equivalent protection.
SECTION II.
It shall be unlawful for ary person to leave, or cause or permit to be lefl
' any outdoor or open fire unattended by any adult person in the Mt.Vidw Fire Protect on ,
District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California. Before leaving any
such fire, such person or .persons in charge of such fire shall thoroughly extinguis
same by completely covering it' with dirt, saturating it with water, or otherwise
treating it in such manner to prevent rekindling of such fire.
SECTION III.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation or
association to place or maintain, or to cause or permit to be placed or maintained,
any obstruction, whether permanent or movable, before or upon any fire escape,
exit, foyer, aisle, passageway, corridor, or any other means of egress from any
theatre, church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public
assemblage, while open to the public, in the Mt. View Fire Protection District
of the County of Contra Costa, State of California.
' No persons shall be allowed to stand in the aisles or passageways, during
any time such a building, or place, is being used for public assemblage,
All exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during
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the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened
' in any manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which- doors and
hardware shall be maintained to open freely.
SECTION IV.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation,
- or associationlb accumulate, or to cause or permit the •aocumulation of rubbish,
rags, paper or other inflamable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium,
meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblage in the Mt. View Fire Protect
ion District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, in such manner as
to•eonstitute a fire menace.
SECTICN V.
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It shall be unlawful for any:.;person'to.disobey the lawful orders of. any
public officer or fireman, in the-immediateviinity. ohe burning of brush,. stumps
log 9, fallen timber, fallowe, slash, grass grain, brush or forest covered land,
or any other inflamable material- in the Mt. View Fire Protection District of the
County of Conti;a Costa,, State of California, or offer any resistance to or inter-
ferenoe with the lawful efforts of any public officer, fireman, or company of fireme
to extinguish the same, or engage in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent
the same from being extinguished, or forbid, prevent or dissuade the others from
assisting to extinguish the 'same.
SECTION VI.
It shall be unlawful-for any person to ride, drive, or propel any vehicle '
or conveyance upon, over,, or across any fire hose orchemicalhose used by or in
charge of any fireman or company of firemen in the Mt.View Fire Protection District
of the County of Contra Costa' `State of California, or to inure or damage in any
manner any such hose or fire apparatus of any kind.
SECTION VII.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle upon any street
or highway within three hundrdd (300) feet of any burning building, or other burning
structure, in the Mt. View_ Fire 'Protection District of the County of Contra Costa,
State of CalifornLa, provided, however, that this section shall not apply to vehicli e
of police officers, firemen or any owner,.tenant or other occupant of such building,
or structure, or-any authorized agents of such owner, tenant or other occupant..
NOTION VIII. ,
Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceed-
ing ,Five Hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six months or by
both such fine and imprisonment. Every separate act or transaction in violation of
this ordinance shall be deemed7separate offense.
SECTION IX.
This Ordinance shall be posted ',in three,of the most public places in said
District for a period of two weeks, at the end of which time it is a law for the
government of the inhabitants of said district.
ADOPTED by the Board of Sppervisors of the County of Contra Costa
on the 20th day of May, 1940:
W. J. ffiCHANAN
James N.Long. i1
H.L.Cummings
Ralph Bollman
s R.J.Trembath.
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S.C,• WELLS,
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Hoard of Supervisors of the i
County of Contra Costa, State of
California.
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Ordinance No: 283.`
AN ORDINANCE-OF-THE`ORINDA COUNTY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT OF'THE`COUNTY'OF
CONTRA`COSTA;`,STATE.OF:CALIFORM; ESTAffiISHINO:RMULATIONS'PERTAINING'TO.-?IRES
AND;FIRE:MENACES,.PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS-TO DEANS OF,MRESS AND:`ACCUMULATIONS �
OF.RU_BBIM_ IN'PLACES,OF.PUBLIC.ASSEMBLAGE, PROHIBITING INTERFERENCE WITH.THE DUTIES
OF,:FIREI�NIAND_FIRE EQUIPIENT, RDGULATINa PARKING AT,FIRES, AND PROVIDING.;PENALTIES
F.OR'-ViOLATIONS. ANY,OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF.
The BOARD of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
' the governing body of Orinda County Fire Protection Distract, do ordain as follows:
Section I. t'
It shall be unlawful for any person•to build, light, maintain, or cause or
permit to be built, lighted-or maintained, any open or outdoor fire at a distance within
' one hundred (100) feet of any building or inflamable structure in the Orinda County
Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, without
a written permit first granted by the Chief of the Fire Department of the Orinda
County Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California;
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provided, however, that such permit is not necessary for the bynrning of any inflamable
material in an incinerator constructed of non-combustible material, completely enclosed
and equipped with a spark arrester or wire, metal screen, or equivalent, having a mesh
or holes not to exceed one-quarter (1/4) inch, or any spark arrester which is designed
to provide the equivalent'protection.
Section II.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, or cause or permit to' be left,
any outdoor or open fire unattended by any adult person in the Orinda County Fire
Protection District of the Couhty of Contra Costa, -State of California. Before
' leaving any such fire, such person or persons in charge of such fire shall thoroughly
extinguish same by completely covering it with dirt, saturating it with water, or
otherwise treating it in such manner to prevent rekindling of such fire.
SECTION III.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership, corporation,
or association to place or maintain, or to cause or permit to be placed or maintained,
any obstruction, whether permanent or moveable, before or upon any fire escape, exit,
foyer, aisle, passage-way, corridor, or any other means of egress-from any theatre,
church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public-assemb1hge
while open to the public, in the Orinda County Fire Protection District of the
Copnty of Contra Costa State of California.
No persons shall be allowed to stard-in the aisles or passageway during any time
such a building, or place is being used for public assemblage.
All exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during the
use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened in any
manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which doors and hardware
shall be maintained to open freely.
SECTION IV.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, or
association to accumulate, or to cause or permit the accumulation of rubbish, raga,
paper or other inflamable refuse in any theatre,.church, hospital, atnditdrium, meeting
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hall, or other place used for public assemblage in the Orinda County Fire Protection
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District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, in such manner as to j
constitute a fire menace. 11
SECTION V.
It shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the lawful orders of any public
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officer or fireman in the immediate vicinity of the,burning of brush, =tamps, loge, fallen
timber, fellows slash• ass , , y a
�.' , , , gr ,:grain 'brush•or-forest covered land • or.an 'other inflamable, '
material in'the,Oririda�Connt7 Fire,Protection �iefrict, of the County of Contra Costa, Stats';
of'Calif ornia, or offer any re6istance to or-interfere with the-lawfull efforts of any;publicv
'• officer, fireman or c of firemen to extinguish the same or'e a e in a disorder
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conduct calculated to prevent the.same from being extinguished, or forbid, prevent or dtdduade
others from assisting to extinguish the same.
SECTION VI.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride,,drive, or propel any vehicle
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or conveyance uponi over, or across any fire hose or chemical hose used,by or in charge of any
fireman or company of firemen in the Orinda County Firo Protection District'of the County of
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Contra Costa, State of California, or to injure or damage in argr manner any such hose or fire
apparatus of any kind.
SECTION VII.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle upon any street or highway
within three hundred (300) feet of any burning building, or other burning structure, in the
Orinda County Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, pro-
vided, however, that this section shall not apply to vehicles of police officers, fireman,
s: or any owner, tenant or other occupant of ouch building, or structure, or any authorized agents
Jr of such owner, tenant or other occupant.
SECTION VIII.
Any person violating any of. the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and ohall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
9ollara• (6500.00) or by imprisonmentnot exceeding six months or by both such fine and imprisonment '
}_ Every separate act or transaction in violation of this ordinance shall be deemed a separate
offense.
�c. SECTION IX.
This Ordinance shall be posted in three of the most public places in the said
district for a period of two weeks,.at the erid of which time it is a law for the government
of the inhabitants of said District.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of. the County of Contra Costa, on the
a 17th day of June, 1940.
4a'S. JAMES N. LONG,
ATTEST: S. C..WELLS. RALPH BOLLMAN
H..'L. CULfMGS.
' . County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of W.J.Buohanan
the Board of Supervisors of the County R. J. Trembath.
of Contra Costa, State of California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 294,
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CENTRAL FIRE PROTECTION.DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA, .STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS 'SERTAINING TO FIRES AND G
FIRE MENACES, PROHIBITING OBSTRUCTIONS TO MEANS OF WFIESS AND ACCUMULATIONS OF RUBBISH
:IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLAGE, PROHIBITING INTERFERENCE WITH THE WZ IES OF FIREMEN 0
AND FIRE EQUIPMENT, REGULATING PARKING AT FIRES, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLAT-Q
IONS OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS THEREOF,
The Board of Supervisors Of the County of Contra Costa, the governing
' body of the Central Fire Proteotion .district, do ordain as follows:
SECTION I.
It shall be unlawful for any person to build, light, maintain] or cause
or permit to be built, lighted or maintained, 'any open or outdoor fire at a distance
within one hundred (100) feet of any building or inflamabls structure in the Central
' Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, without
a written permit first granted by the Chief of the Fire Department of the Central Fir
Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California; provided,
however, that such permit ie not necessary for the burning of any flamable material
in an incinerator constructed of noncombustible material, completly enclosed and
equipped with a spark arrester of wire, metal soreen, or equivalent, having a mesh
or holes not to exceed one-quaiter (1/4) inch, or any spark arrester which is design
ed to provide the equivalent protection.
SECTION II.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave, or cause or permit to be
left; any outdoor or open fire unattended by any adult person in the Central Fire
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Protection District of the County of Contra Costa, State of California. Before leav-
' Ing any such fire, such person or persons in charge of such fire shall thoroughly
ex:tinguiEh same by completely covering it with dirt, saturating it with water,
or otherwise treating it in such manner to prevent rekindling'of such fire.
SECTION IIS
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership, corporation
or association toplace or maintain, or to cause or permit to be placed or maintained
any obstruction'; whether permanent or moveable, before or upon any fire escape,
exit, foyer, aisle, passageway, corridor, or any other means of egress from any
theatre, church, hospital, auditorium, meeting hall, or other place used for public
assemblage, while open to the public, in the Central Fire Protection District, of
the County of Contra Costa, State of California.
No persons shall be allowed to stand in the aisles or passageway during
' any time such a building or place is being used for public assemblage.
All exit doors of such a building, or place, shall open out, and during
the use of such a building, or place, for public assemblage, shall not be fastened
In any manner except by self-releasing hardware installed thereon, which doors and
hardware shall be maintained to open freely.
SECTION IV.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, or
association to accumulate, or to cause or permit the accumulation of rubbish, rags,
paper or other inflamable refuse in any theatre, church, hospital, auditorium,
meeting hall, or other place used for public assemblage in the Central Fire Protects n
District of the County of Contra Costa, State of Calitbrnia, in such manner as to
constitute a fire menace.
SECTION V. -
It shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the lawful order
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any public off ioer br fireman: in the immediate 'vicinity of'the'burning of brush:-
stumps, logs, fallen timber, ,fallows, slash, grass, grain, brush ,or forest. oovered
land or any other inflamable material in the Central Fire Protection District .of"the
County of Contra Costa, Stat a of Calif ornia, or off erany resistance, to or interfere
with the lawful effortn of ahy public officer, fireman, or company of firemen to ea--
J tinguish the same, or engage in any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the '
same from being estinguished, or forbid, prevent or dissuade others from assisting
to extinguish the same.
SECTION VI.
It shall be Waawfu]. for any person to ride, drive, or propel any vehicle
or conveyance upon, over, or across any fire hose or chemical hose used by or in char e '
of any fireman or company of firemen in the Central Fire Protection District of the
County of Contra Costa, State of California, or to injure or damage in any manner any
such hose Or fire apparatus of any kind.
SECTION VII.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park any vehicle upon any street or
highway within three hundred 000) feet of any burning building, or other burning
structuro, in the Central Fire Protection District of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California, provided, however, that this section shall not apply to vehicles
of police .officers, firemen or any owner, tenant ob other occupant of such building,
or'structure, or any authorized agents of such owner, tenant or other occupant.
SECTION VIII.
Any person violating any of t he provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty '
of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six months or by both such
fine and imprisonment. Every separate act or transaction in violation of this ordinince
shall be deemed a separate offense.
SECTION IX.
This Ordinance shall be posted in three of the most public places in said
District for a period of two weeks, at the end of which time it is a law for the
government of the inhabitants of the said District.
ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the
lot day of July, 1940.
JADES N. LONG,
H. L. CUWUNGS,
RALPH BO LT14MI
W. J. BUCHMAN ,
ATTEST: S. C. WELLS, R. J. TREIABATH.
�CountyyCClerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of
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ORDINANCE NO. 2$5. ,
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS OF THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS, TERMS AND COMPENSATION, OF
DEPUTIES AND EMPLOYEES THEREOF: AND REREALING ALL ORDINANCES, OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT THEREWRH.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
' da ordain as follows:
In the County of Contra Costa, the county and township officers, deputies;
and employees shall receive as full compensation for all services required of them by
law, or by virtue of their office, the following salaries:
' 1. CLERK: The County Clerk, Five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum;
provided, th&t- there shall.'be and there is hereby allowed to the County Clerk the
following clerks,' deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the Oounty Clerk
and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows: One Chief
Deputy at a salary of Two hundred and twenty—five dollars ($225.00) per month; two
courtroom deputies at a salary of Two hundred dollars ($200.00) each per month;
one office deputy at a salary of Two hundred and ten dollars ($210.00) dollars
per monthy one office deputy at a salary of one hundred and fifty—five 0155.00)
dollars per month; two office deputies at a salary of one hundred and forty—five
Dollars ($145.00) per month each; and one office deputy at a salary of one hundred
and thirty—five dollars ($135.00) per month; provided further that in any year when
a General or Primary Election or a Special State or County Election is to be held,
' or the compilation of a registration of voters is required by law or supplements to
be made thereto, the County Clerk shall receive for the hire of extra help for com—
pil W of such registration of voters and making supplements thereto, and work incidental
to said election, his actual expenses to be paid upon filing and presentation of duly
verified claims therefor by the County Clerk or claims approved by the County Clerk
with the Board of Supervisors of said County, after proper allowance of said
claim by saidBoard of Supervisors; and provided, further, the said County Clerk
may appoint such number of registration deputies as may be necessary for the registra —
ion of voters in their respective precincts, each of said deputies to receive the sum
of ten cents (10V ) per name for each elector registered by him, said registration
deputies to be paid for their services on the presentation and filing with the Board
of Supervisors of said County a duly verified claim therefor, on the general Fund of
said County, after proper allowance of said claim by said Board of Supervisors.
' 2. AUDITOR: There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Auditor the
following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Auditor and
hold office at his pleasure and shall be paid salaries'as follows: One deputy Auditor
at a salary of two hundred and twenty five dollars (8225.00) per month; one deputy
auditor at a salary of two hundred and fifteen dollars ($215. 00) per month; two
deputy auditors at a salary of one hundred and forty dollars ($140.00) permonth each;
one deputy Auditor at a salary of one hundred and thirty—five dollars ($135.00) per
month; two deputy auditors at a salary of One hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00)
per month each; one depi:ty auditor at a salary of one hundred and twenty—five dollars
($125.00) per month; one deputy luditor at a salary of one hundred and twenty dollars
($120,00)y one deputy auditor ata salary of one hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month,
all of which last mentioned salary shall be charged against the cost of administration
Of Highways and Bridges work; provided, however, that said Auditor is hereby allowed
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such clerks and employees'as'he may deem necessary to,appoint at a salary of.
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dollars ($5.00), Four dollars ($4.00) or three Dollars ($3.00) per day each;
provided, however, that the amount of such salaries and compensations paid to 'such
clerks and employees on a per diem 1fasLs shall not exceed the total sum of Thirty—
three hundred dollars ($3300.00) per annum.
3. TREASURER: The Treasurer, Your thousand dollars ($4,000.00) per annum; '
provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Treasurer the
following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Treasurer,
and shall hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows: One
deputy Treasurer at a salary of Two hundred and twenty—five dollars ($225.00) per
month; one clerk at a salary of One hundred dollars ($100.00) per month. '
4. ASSESSOR: The Assessor, Five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum;
provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Assessor the
following deputies, clerks, 'and employees, mho Mall be appointed by the Assessor
and shall hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries:
Qne Chief deputy Assessor at a salary of Two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00)
per month; one land appraisal deputy assessor at a salary of two hundred and fifty
dollars ($250.00) per month; one improvement valuation deputy assessor at a salary
of Two hundred and twenty five dollars ($225.00) per month; one improvement valuation
deputy assessor at a salary of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month; two deputy
assessors at a salary of one hundred and eighty dollars ($1.50.00) per month each;
one transfer deputy assessor at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00)
per month; one exemption deputy assessor at a salary of one hundred and twenty—five ,
dollars ($125.00) per month; four field deputy assessors to hold office not' to excee
five months each in any one fiscal year at a salary of one Hundred and fifty dollars
($150.00) dollars per month each; one deputy Assessor at a salary of One hundred
and twenty—five dollars ($125.00) per month; and such additional deputy assessors,
clerks and employees as the Assessor may appoint at salaries of ten dollars ($10.00)
pdr day, Eight dollars ($5.00) per day, and six Dollars ($6.00) per day, Four and
50/100 dollars ($4.50) per day, Four dollars ($4.00) per day, and three and 50/100
dollars ($3.50) per day each; provided, however, that the total compensation of
such additional deputy assessors, clerks, and employees shall not exceed the sum of
Fifty—eight hundred dollars ($5500.00) per annum; and provided, further, that the
Assessor is hereby authorized to contract with an abstract and title company for
copies of transcripts of recorded instruments affecting titles at a compensation ,
of forty dollars ($140.00) per month.
5. TAX COLLECTOR: The Tax Collector, Four thousand ($4,000.00) dollars
per annum; provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Tax
Collector the following clerks, deputies and employees who shall be appointed by
the Tax Collector and shall be paid salaries as follows: One deputy tax collector
at a salary of two hundred and twenty five dollars ($225.00) per month; one deputy
tax collector at a salary of one hundred and seventy—five dollars ($175.00) per month;
one deputy tax collector at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00)
per month; one deputy tax collector at a salary of One hundred and thirty dollars
per month; one clerk at a salary of one Hundred and thirty five dollars ($135.00)
per month; one stenographer-clerk at a salary of one hundred and thirty dollars
($130.00) per month; and such copyists and clerks as the tax collector may appoint
at a salary of three and 50/100 dollars ($3.50) per,day, or four and 50/100 dollars
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per 'Say each; provided, however, that the total amount of salary and compen
eation paid to such copyists and clerks shall not exceed the sum of Five thousand
dollars ($51000:00) per annum..
6. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. There shall be and .there is hereby allowed to the
District Attorney the following deputies, clerks and employees who shall be appoints
' by the District Attorney and hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid
salaries as follows: One chief. deputy district Attorney at a salary of three hundred
dollars ($300.00) per month; three deputy district attorneys at a salary of two
hundred and twenty five dollars ($225.00) per month each; two deputy district
attorneys at a salary of Two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month each; one detective
' who shall assist the District Attorney in the, detection of crime and prosecution
of criminal cases and in civil actions and proceedings and all other matters in whit
the County is interested whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of Two hundred and
twenty-five dollars ($225.00) per month; one stenographer to the district attorney
at a salary of One hundred and forty-two dollars ($142.00)per month; two stenographs s
at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125.00) per month each; and one
stenographer at a salary of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per'.month.
7. CORONER: The Coroner, such Pees as are now and may hereafter be
allowed by law, provided, however, that the coroner shall be allowed for general
services in holding an inquest the sum of Ten dollars ($10.00) and provided, further,
that there is hereby allowed to the Coroner, one stenographer, .whose duty it shall b
to act as reporter and take down in shorthand and transcribe into longhand the
' testimony of the witnesees!,at all inquests, which stenographer shall be appointed
by the Coroner and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid a salary of one
hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) Ncr month.
$. SURVEYOR: The Surveyor, Five thousand ($5,000.00) per annum, provided,
however, that the surveyor shall not engage in private practice of engineering or
surveying, and providing, further, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed
to the Surveyor the following deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the
surveyor and shall hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries as
follows: One Chief deputy surveyor at a salary of three hundred dollars ($300.00)
per month; one deputy Surveyor at a salary of two hundred and sixty dollars ($260.00
per month; one engineer at a salary of two hundred and thirty dollars ($230.00)
per month; one engineer at a salary of Two hundred and twenty five dollars ($225.00)
per month; one draftsman at a salary of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225.00
' one draftsman at a salary of two hundred and t en dollars ($210.00) per month; one
draftsman at a salary of one hundred and ntaty-five dollars ($195.00) per month;
one instrument man at a salary of Two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month; one
instrument man at a salary of one hundred and thirty five dollars ($135.00) per mont ;
' three rodmen at a salary of one hundred and forty-five dollars ($1115.00) per month
each, one stenographer at a salary of one hundred and twenty five dollars ($125. 00)
per month; provided, further that the Surveyor may employ additional chainman at a
wage of Five and 50/100 dollars ($5,50) per day; transit men at eight dollars 39.00
per day; instrument men at seven dollars ($7.00) per day; junior draftsmen &t Seven
dollars ($7.00) per dayp draftsman at eight dollars ($8.00) per day; engineers at
Nine dollars ($9.00) per day and ten dollars ($10.00) per day; and stenographers
at four dollars (84.b0) per day and Five dollars ($5.00) per day, when in the opinion
of the Surveyor such additional employees are necessary; provided, further, that
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the total amount of compensation paid for such additional,, employees on a per diem`'.;,
basis shall not in'any fiscal year exceed the sum of Twenty—two hundred dollars
($2200.00).
9. CLASSIFICATION OF TOWNSHIPS: The population of the several judicial
townships for the purpose of fixing the compensation of township officers shall be
ascertained and declared by the Board of Supervisors in the month of July, 1939, '
and in the month of July every four years thereafter as follows: said Board shall by
order at a regular meeting determine the population of each township to be three (3)
times the registration of legal voters on file July first of said year in each
township, and every four years thereafter succeeding, and it shall declare this sum
to be the papulation of each township. Said townships shall further be classified '
as follows:
Class 1: Townships having a population of more than twenty thousand
(20,000,)
Class 2: Townships having a population of from ten thousand and one (10,0(1)
to twenty thousand (20,000).
Class 3: Townships having a population of from seven thousand and one
(7,001) to ten thousand (10,000.)
Class 4: Townships having a pppulation of from four thousand and one
(4,001) to seven thousand (7,000-)
Class : Townships, having a population of from two thousand and one (2001
to four thousand (4,000.)
Class 6: Townships having a population of from one thousand and one (1001
to two thousand (2000)
Class 7: Townships having a population of less than one thousand (1,000).
10. JUSMES OF THE PEACE: Justices of the Peace shall iveceive'the
following monthly salaries:
(1) In Townships of the first class, Three hundred and seven dollars
($307.00) per•month.
(2) In Townships of the second class, One hundred and seventy—five ,
dollars ($175,.00) per month.
($154.00) p(93)mIn Tovmxships of the third olass, One hundred and fifty—four dollars
(4) In Townships of the fourth class, One hundred and fifty—four dollars
($154.00) per month.
(5) In Townships- of the fifth class, one hundred and ten dollars ($110,00
per month. _
(6) In Townships of the sixth class, Fifty dollars ($50.00) per month.
(7) In Townships of the seventh class, Twenty—five dollars ($25,00) per
month.
Provided, however, that from and after January 2, 1939, there shall be
and there is hereby allowed each month to each Justice of the Peace a sum equal
to twenty per cent (20%) of his monthly salary an and for the useof his private office
and/ or office equipment in the performance of his official duties as Justice of the
Peace. It is further provided that no Justice of the Peace shall receive any expenses '
of any kind, except the said sum of Twenty per cent (20%) of said monthly salary;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall preclude the said Justices
of the Peace from being reimbursed for moniAs`, allowed to thegL by law from fees
received in the filing of small claims actions. ,
For purposes of this seotion, the various dockets and legal forms required
by the Justices f the Peace for the conduct of their offices shall not bet, deemed
to be expenses of their offices, but such dockets and legal forms, subject to the
approval of the District Attorney,- shall be furnished by the County upon requisition
to the Purchasing Agent and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed from a general
fund appropriation for the purpose.
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IT IS FURTHER provided that Justices of the Peace of all townships shall
issue receipts for all money collected by them in the performance of their duties.
11. SHERIFF. The Sheriff, Five thousand dollars (05,000) perannum; provided
that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff the following•deputie ,
clerks, and employees who shall be appointed'by the Sheriff and shall hold office
' at his pleasure; and shall be paid the following salaries: .One Undersheriff at a
salary of two hundred and fifty dollars (00250.00) per mohth; one deputy sheriff at
a salary of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225.00) per month; three deputy
sheriffs at a salary of two hundred dollars (0200.00) per month each; one deputy
' sheriff to act as day hailer at a salary of one hundred and seventy-five dollars
(0175.00) per month; one deputy sheriff to act as night hailer at a salary of one
hundred and seventy-five dollars (0175.00) per month; two deputy sheriffs to act as
bailiffs at a salary of one hundred and eighty five dollars ($185.00) per month each
one deputy Sheriff at a salary of One 4undred and eighty-five dollars (0155.00) per
month; two deputy sheriffs at a salary of One hundred and seventy-two dollars 3172- M)
per month each; one deputy sheriff to act as photographer at a salary of one hundred
and seventy dollars 0170.00) per month; one deputy sheriff to act ad radio technician
at a salary of one hundred and ninety dollars per month ($190.00); one deputy Sherif
at a salary of one hundred and sixty dollars ($160.00) per month; one deputy Sheriff
at a salary of one hundred aid sixty-five dollars ($165.00) per month; six deputy
. sheriffs at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ( $150.00) per month each;
one deputy sheriff to act as superintendent of the fail branch at a salary of one
hundred and ninety dollars ($190.00) per month; one secretary at a salary of one
hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) per month; one Jail matron at a salary of one
hundred and ten dollars ($110.00) per month; provided, further that the Sheriff may
employ from one to five persons to act as deputy sheriffs, at a salary of four and
50/100 dollars (04.50) per day when, in the judgment of the sheriff, such deputies
are necessary, provided, however, that the total amount of the compensation for such
additional deputies to be paid per diem shall not in any fiscal year exceed the tots
sum of Fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00); and provided, further: that the Sheriff
may employ extra guards at the Jail branch at a salary of five dollars ($5.00) per
day, when, in the judgment of the Sheriff, such guards are necessary; provided., how-
ever, that the total amount of the canpensation for such extra guards to be paid
per diem shall not in any fiscal year exceed the total sum of Fifteen Hundred dollar
($1500.00); provided, further that the compensation of such last mentioned deputies
and extra guards shall be paid upon presentation of duly itemized verified claims
filed with the Board of supervisors of said County in the same manner that other
Claims are filed and paid.
There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff to bo by him
' retained for his own use all mileage for service of papers in civdl actions aris-
ing either in•or outside of the County, excepting actions in which the County is
interested, and also all mileage in criminal cases for each mile actually and necess-
arily traveled by automobiles at the rate of five and one-half cents (51o)per mile.
All fees collected by the Sheriff for•the service of papers and processes in civil
matters shall be collected by the Sheriff for the use and benefit of the County,
and shall by him be paid into the County Treasury `at such times and manner as
required by las. _
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12. CONSTABLES: Constables in the several Townships shall receive the
following salaries:
(1) In Townships of the first class, the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars
($180.00) per month.
(2 in Townships of the second class, the sum of One hundred and eighty dollar
($180.00; per month.
(33 in Townships of the third class, the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars
0180.00 per month: '
(11? In Townships of the Fourth class, the sum of One hundred and eighty dollar
($180.90) per month.
(5 n Townships of.the fifth class, the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars
($180.00; Per month.
(6) In Townships of the sixth class, the sum of One hundred and twenty-five
dollars ($125.00) per month. . '
(7) In Townships of the seventh class, the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per
month._
It is further provided that constables in townships of the first, second, thi d,
fourth and fifth classes shall receive the gum of fifty dollars ($50.00) per month
as and for the use of their respective automobiles in the performance of their duties
as constables. Each such constable shall file a claim on the first day of each
and every month for the preceding month, and no allowance shall be made to any such
constable for such use d his automobile unless such a claim is filed by him as her91
provided.
It is further provided that no oenstable in the first five classes shall
receive any mileage or expenses of any kind, except the said sum of fifty dollars
($50.00) per month.
In addition to the salaries and expenses above provided, constables shall '
in all classes of_townshipa, except.the first five classes, receive .the following
fees: for serving subpoenas the same fees and mileage as are now or may hereafter
be allowed by law for the service of a subpoena issued out of the Justice's Court;
for summoning a coroner's ,fury, the same fees as are now or may be hereafter allows
for summoning a ,fury in a civil action in the Justice I s Court; ,for transporting
prisoners to the County Jail, or patient a to the County Hoop ital, the sum of Five
and one-half cents (5 1/2$) per mile.
In Addition to the salaries, compensations and fees above alloyed, constab es
in all classes of townships may receive for their respective use in civil cases the
fees allowed by law.
13. RECORDER: The Recorder, Four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) per annum,
provided, that there shall be_and there is hereby allowed to the Recorder the
following deputies, ,clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the County ,
Recorder and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows:
One deputy Recorder at a salary of Two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month; one deo ty
Recorder at a salary of one hundred and seventyfive dollars ($175.00) per month;
one deputy Recorder at a' salary of One hundred and thirty-five (135.00) per month. '
two index clerks at a salary of one hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) per month
each; three copyists.at a salary of one hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) per
month each; two canparing clerks at.a salary of one hundred and fire dollars ($105. 0)
per month each; and such. copyists as the County Recorder shall appoint at a salary
of three and 50/100 dollars ($3.50) per day and four dollars ($4.00) per day each;
provided, however, that the total salaries on a per diem basis (or by folio at the
discreticn of the Recorder, as hereinafter mentioned) paid to said last named
copyists, shall not exceed the sum of Twenty-five huhdred dollars ($2500.9)per ann ;
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AND PROVIDED, further, that the County Recorder at-,his discretion may pay copyists
the sum of four cents (4p per folio (100 words) actually oopied, instead of upon
a monthly or per diem basis.
14. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR: The jDublic Administrator, such fees as are now
or may hereafter be allowed by law.
15. SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The Sealer of Weights and Measures,
' Twenty-four hundred dollars ($2400.00) per annum; provided that there shall be and
there is hereby allowed to the Sealer of Weights and Measures two deputy sealers
of weights and measures at a salary of one hundred and sixty dollars ($160.00) per
month each, and such stenographers and clerks as the Sealer of Weights and Measures
' may appoint at a salary of four dollars ($4.00) per day each; provided, however,
that the total amount of salary and compensation paid to such stenographers and cle ks
shall not exceed the sum of Two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum.
16. AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER. The Agricultural Commissioner, Twenty-seven
hundred dollars ($2700.00) per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is
hereby allowed to the Agricultural commissioner the following inspectors and clerks
to be appointed by said Commissioner and to hold office at his pleasure, and the
salaries hereby fixed as follows, to wit:. One standardization inspector at a salary
of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) per month; one clerk at a salary of one
hundred dollars ($100.00) per month; and five rodent inspectors at a salary of six
dollars (56.00) per diem each, during the time actually employed, but the aggregate
amount which may be expended in any year for such rodent inspectors shall not exceed
' the sum of Seven thousand ($7,000. ) per annum.
17. PROBATION OFFICER. The Probation Officer Three thousand dollars
($3,000) per annum; provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to
the Probation Officer one assistant probation officer at a salary of one hundred an
eighty Dollars (0150.00) per moth; one deputy probation officer at a salary of
one hundred and fifty dollars (9150 00) per month and one stenographer at a salary
of One hundred and twenty dollars (120.00) per month.
19. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. The Superintendent of Schools, Five thousand
dollars ($5,000.) per annum; provided that thre shall be and there is hereby allowed
to the Superintendent of Schools the following deputies, clerks and employees who
shall be appointed- by the Superintendent of Schools and hold office at his pleasure
and who shall be paid salaries as follows: One field deputy superintendent of
schools to assist the superintendent in the discharge of his duty in visiting and
examining schools as provided by law, and it shall be the duty of said field deputy
superintendent to make written reports of his examination to be transmitted by the
' superintendent of schools to each trustee of all school districts so examined, whit
said field deputy superintendent shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars
(0300.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary of two hundred
dollars ($200.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary of
one hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of
schools at a salary of one hundred and fifteen dollars ($115.00) per month and one
stenographer-clerk at a salary of one hundred and five dollars 0105.00) per month,
and such clerks and employees as he may deem necessary to appoint at a salary of three
and 50/100 dollars (43.50) per day and four dollars ($4.00) per day each, provided,
however, that the amount of such salaries and compensations paid to such clerks
and employees on a per diem basis shall not exceed the total sum of Two hundred
and ninety five dollars ($295.00) per annth.
19. COUNTY LIBRARIAN. The County Librarian, Three thousand dollars ($3,000
per annum.
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20. SUPERVISORS. Each''Super4lsor shall receive as expenses Supervisor •'and
Road Commissioner, five and one-half cents (51k per mile each way traveling
to and from his residence while engaged in the performance of the duties of super
vision of public roads, or other business of the County, said mileage not to exceed
three hundred dollars ($300.00) per annum while traveling within the County of
Contra Costa, and in addition thereto shall be alloyed at the rate of five and one-
half cents (510)) per mile for actual miles traveled without the County of Contra ,
Costa as mileage for the performance of County business outside the County.
•It is further provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to
each Superirisor a sum not to exceed twenty-five per cent (25;x) of his monthly
salary for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office. Each Super- '
visor shall file an itemized statement supported by receipts or vouchers on t h e
first day of each and every month designating the actual expenditure on his part of
expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his said office, for the preceding
month, and no allowance. shall be made to any superkisor for expenses neeessarn.y
incurred in the conduct bf his office unless the same shall be itemized and designat-
ed in said claim filed by him as herein provided.
21.BONDS. The cost of bonds of County officers, their assistants, deputies
and employees, such as required by law to be furnished when executed with a reliable
bond and surety company, and duly approved shall be a charge against the Uounty pay-
able out of the General Fund.
22. ALLOWANCE FOR ACTUAL AND NECESSARY EXPENSES. Actual, reasonable and
necessary expenses shall be allowed all the officers of the County and their deputies '
in the discharge of their official duties, subject-to such limitations as are else-
where herein provided. Detailed expense accounts must be rendered on the first day
of each month for the expenses incurred in the previous month. For traveling
necessarily done by automobile, an officer shall be alloyed mileage at the rate
of five and one-half cents (51A per mile, without any constructive mileage and he
shall be alloyed his actual traveling expenses when he travels by rail.
The salaries and expenses of the officers and their deputies herein set
forth shall be in full compensation for the services required of them as such
officers and deputies, in arra by virtue of their office and by law in such case
made and provided, and all other fees, ,mileage, or other remuneration or compensation
of any kind or character received by officers Cr their deputies, for or by reason
of any duty imposed by law on them as such officers and deputies or accruing to therr
by virtue of their offices and unless specifically allowed to them herein, shall be ,
paid into the County Treasury at such times and in such manner as required by law,
provided, however, that until such time as the County provides for such officers
and makes available to their use such numbers of automobiles as are reasonably
necessary to carry out the duties of their respective office, such officers shall '
be allowed to retain for their own use and benefits such mileage as may be allowed
by law, or hereinbefore set forth and allowed.
SALARIES.- HOW PAID. Salaries of all officials, deputies, clerks and
4 employees herein provided for shall be paid by the County in monthly installments
at the same time and in the same manner, out of the same fund as the salaries
of County officers are paid, except as herein otherwise ordained; provided however,
that the salary and cmmpeneation of all clerks, engineers, copyists and employees
of every kind, working on a per diem basis, shall be paid only upon their filing
with, and allowance by the Board of Supervisors of said County, of their duly veri-
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fied,,'claims for the sum due 'them; provided,; further that at the election of the
employee, indicated by written instructions of such employee, filed by him with the
County Auditor, a portion of. his =salary .or wages may be paid bn his behalf direct
to his insurer 'to cover the amount .of.,the monthly premium on any insuranoe-contract ed
for by him under any group insurance plan arranged by him in conjunction with other
' employees.
211. The office of Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby
created. The duties of said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be to
aid and assist the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, in the performance, of purely.olerieal duties, not now required by law
to be performed by the County Clerk, as ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
the County Auditor or the County Surveyor,.or either of them. The compensation
of said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall be fixed at One hundred and
ten ($110.00) dollars, per month, payable out of the General Fund of said County.
The office of Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors is hereby
created. The duties of said Second Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors shall
be to aid and assist the said Stenographer to the Board of Supervisors in the per-
formance of her duties. The compensation of said Second stenographer to the Board
of Supervisors shall be fixed at Ten Dollars ($10.00) per month, payable out of the
General Fund of said County.
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in oonfliet'with this ordinance are
hereby repealed; and provided, further,
' This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the lst day
of September, 1910, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of its
passage the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for and
against the same in the PITTSBUFO INDEPENDENT, a newspaper printed and published in
the County of Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the
9th day of July, 1940, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long; Cummings Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
W. J. BUMANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, State of
ATTEST: S. C. WELLS California.
County Clerk and ex-off ioio Clens
of the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa, State
of California.
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF. SUPERVISORS..OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Lr
STATE,OF CALIFORNIA
'ORDINANCE N0.�286aS; 5ti
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE IJO. 285 r ,
;REGULATING THE COMPENSATION.OF OFFICERS
OF THE,COUNTY OF. CONTRA COSTA, AND'TO v
PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER OF'APPOINTMENTS,
TERMS AND COMPENSATION OF.DEPUTIES AND
E14PLOYEES THEREOF, AND REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT THEREWITH.
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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows:
Section 12 of Ordinance No. 285 of the County of Contra Costa is hereby
amended to read as follows, to=wit: '
12. CONSTABLES. Constables in the several townships shall receive the
following salaries:
(1) In townships of the first class the sum of One Hundred and 'Eighty
Dollars ($180.00) per month. .
(2) In townships of the second class the sum of One Hundred and Eighty
Dollars ($180.00) per month.
(3) In townships of the third class the sum of One IIundred and Eighty
Dollars ($180.00) per month.
(4) In townships of the fourth class the sum of One Hundred and Eighty
Dollars ($180.00) per month.
(5) In townships of the fifth class the sum of-One Hundred and Eighty
Dollars (0180.00) per month. '
(6) In townships of the sixth class the sum of One Hundred and Twenty-
five ($125.00) per month.
(7) In townships of the seventh class the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50,00)
per month.
It is further provided that constables in townships of the first, second,
third, fourth and fifth classes shall receive the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) per
month as and for the use of their respective automobiles in the performance of their
,i duties as constables.
It is further provided the constables in townships of the sixth and
seventh classes shall receive the sum of Twenty-five Dollars ($25:00) per month as
and for the use of their respective automobiles in the performance of their duties
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as constables. '
Each such constable shall file a claim on the first day of each and every
month for the preceding month, and no allowance shall be made to any such constable
for such use of his automobile unless such a claim is filed by him as herein provided
It is further provided that no constable shall receive any mileage or ex-
penses of any kind, excepting the sums above stated. '
In addition to the salaries, compensations and fees above allowed, con-
stables ,in all classes of townships may receive for their respective use in civil
t cases the fees allowed by law.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance. are '
hereby repealed; and provided, further,'
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 5th
day of September, 1940, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of
s` 6 b�'fixe' '�` .x'�y'n£'`.�r.' ,"Ns°i' -7 y�y#t ' g •.i'� s �S S° '4rt.'�1`„i`�t*isNapi.;^fvL�,7 K"xyL'.`.,y� 7y " �, N.H ,. '��'�ff aim `' t "a.
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its pa 3.0f shall be published with the"names of the members voting for
and againat the same in the -BRENTWOOD NEWS; a`news'P.
sper printed and published in the.
County of bontra Costa.
Adopted by the.Board of Supervisors of the.County of Contra Costa, on the.
5th day of August, 1940, by the following vote:
AYES Supervisors Long,' Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan„and Trembath.
NOES,: Supervisors None. '
ABSENT: Supervisors None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the board of Supervisors
.of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
' ATTEST. S. C. WELLS
County ler'k and Ex-Officio UlerF,
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra .Costa, State of
California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 257.
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING TRESPASS UPON, AND LOITERING
ABOUT, CERTAIN CLASSES OF PROPERTY, AND PROVIDING
A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: Declaration of Purpose. Public Safety is hereby declared
to require that the uninterrupted operation of certain industries essential to nationfl
defense, Such as the aircraft manufacturing industry, and of companies or agencies
supplying water, gas, electric and other essential services, be protected by preventing
the intrusion upon the properties thereof of idle, curibus or malicious persons and o
persons whose presence thereon is not necessary, and by prohibiting the loitering
about such places by persons capable of inflicting harm or of impeding the operation
conducted thereon.
SECTION 2: Posting- Manner of, Prescribed. Any person, firm, corporatic n,
governmental agency, department or instrumentality having possession or control, of
any of the facilities, plants or utility properties enumerated in Section 3 hereof,
may post, at each entrance to any fenced or enclosed area devoted to any such use,
and at intervals of not more than three hundred feet around any areas devoted to such
' use, substantial signs not less than one square foot in area, displaying prominently
in addition to such other information as may be deemed desirable, the words "TRESPASS NG-
LOITERING- FORBIDDEN BY LAW” in legible letters not less than two inches in height,
provided, however, that any public waiting room, dining room, office or other portion
of any such structure or premises to which general public access is required in the
normal use and operation thereof or where materials are delivered to or received by the
p ublic, shall not be so posted.
The "posted boundary" of any area shall be a dine running from sign to
sign, and such line need not conform to the legal boundary or legal description of
any lot, parcel or acreage of land.
!'ection 3: Posting—Where Permitted. The places which may so poste
are ,the following:
(a) Every airport, and every plant; field and structure used for the
manufacture, assembling or testing of. aircraft.
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2,' (b)` Every.sank-farm, refinery ,
compressor-plant or 'abaorption plant, `marine'.
«`•• terminal, .-pipe line pumping :~station and reservoir, used for the bulk treatment, :bulk
handling or bulk storage of petroleum• products.'
(c) Every reservoir, dam, pumping station, aqueduct, main canal or pipe lin
of a public water sys tem;
(d) Evety reservoir, dam, generating plant, receiving station, distributing
station and transmission line of a company or agency furnishing energy;
(e) Every gas generating plant, compressor plant, gas holder, gas tan4,
and gas main used for the production, storage and distribution of gas;
(f) Every plant or vital part thereof or other principal property, essential '
to, rendering telephone or telegrgph service,
(g) Every radio broadcasting central plant or station;
(h) Every railroad bridge or tunnel;
(i) Every plant for the bulk storage of dynamite, giant powder, gun powder,
or other explosive.
SECTION : Trespassing- a saisdemeanor. When any such premises is posted
as provided in this Section, it shall be unlawful for any person to go upon or to re ain
upon any place within the posted boundary of any such premises, or to enter or to
remain in any such posted structure, without having upon his person the express
written consent of the person, firm, corporation, department or agency lawfully
in possession or control thereof.
SECTION 5. Lbitering - a Misdemeanor. It shall be unlawful for any person
to loiter in the immediate vicinity of any premises posted asprovided in this
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,. section while having in his possession any explosive, tool, or device, of whatever
' character capable of doing harm or damage to any structure, machinery, equipment
or other property of a similar or dissimilar character, installed or located upon
.:` such posted premises, or area.
SECTION 6, EXEMPTIONS. This ordinance does not apply to any entry in
the course of duty of any peace officer nor to any person traversing an established
k and existing public sidewalk, street or Highway.
} SECTION 7. Damaging signs. Every person who tears down, defaces or destroys
& or.causes to be torn down defaced or destroyed, a sin laced or
, y , ray g p posted under
the provisions of this Ordinance without the consent of the person, firm, corporation,
governmental agency, department or instrumentality having possession or control
of the premises on Which sueh'sign has been erected, is guilty of a misdemeamr.'
h` SECTION 8•. penalty Clause. Every person, as principal, agent, or otherwise,
/'violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed'
three hundred Dollars (0300.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail in the County
of Cont ra Costa, State of California, for a period of not to exceed three (3) months,
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or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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SECTION 9. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof'
to any person or circumstance is held .invalid, the remainder of the ordinance
r and the application of such provision to other persons or circumtances shall` not be
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C affe oted.,there by.
a . ` SECTION-10. This ordinance shall take effect, and be in force, fran.and after
the`7th day of November, 1940, and before the expiration of fifteen (155) days
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after the 'date of ,its passage;, the same 'shall be,published, with theaof`:the''
members ;Por and against the same, in the El Cerrito Journal,,:e newspaper printed and
published. in the Cc unty of. Contra Cc sta.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County`of Contra Costa; State of
California, on the 7th defy. of October, 1940, by the following vote:
Ayes Supervisors Trembath, Long, Buchanan and Bollman and Cummings.
Noes: None. Absent: None.
Attest: W.J.Buchanan
S.C,1"!ells,
Chairman of the Board cd'
Supervisors of the County cP
' County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of Contra Costa, State of
the Board cf Supervisors of the County California.
of Contra Costa, State of California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 28 8.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 278, OF THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA,. ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE
OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STA12E OF CALIFORNIA, DEFINING��
AND ESTABLISHING CERTAIN TEMPORARY LAND USE DISTRICTS;
APPLYING CERTAIN TEMPORARY REGULATIONS ASTO THE USE OF.
LAND, BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, AND TO THE "ERECTUON, CONSTRUCTION,
AND AITERATION OF STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVEMENTS PLAC
ON CERTAIN LANDS, PENDING THE ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF A COMPREHENSIVE ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN:
AND PRESCRIBING THE IMHOD OF ENFORCEMENT IN ESTABLISHING•
SAID INTERIM LAND USE DISTRICTS AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLA
1 OF ANY PROVISIONS HEREOF" AS AMENDED BY ORDIN71TCE NO. 281
BY ADDING A NEP! SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION 3b and THEREBY
ESTABLISHING AN INTERIM RESID121TIAL AGRICULTURALIAND USE
DISTRICT. IN A PORTION OF THE WALNUT CREEK GRAMMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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The 'Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, do ordain
Rs follows, to wit:
Ordinance No. 278, entitled !'An Ordinance of the County of Contra
Costa, State of California, defining and establishing certain temporary land use
districts; applying certain temporary regulations as to the use of land, buildings,
struotures and to the erection, construction, and alteration of structures and to
the improvements placed on certain lands, pending the adoption by the Board of
Supervisors of a comprehensive zoning or districting plan; and prescribing the meth d,
of'-enforcement in establishing said Interim Land Use Districts and penalties for
violation of any provisions hereof" passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
' of the County of Contra Costa, on the 29th day of April, 1940, as amended by Ordinan e
No. 281, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Cost
on the 6th day of May, 1940, is hereby amended •by adding a new section to be known
qs Section 3b, which said Section shall follow immediately after Section 3a, and
which shall read as follows:
SECTION 1: ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS: Section 3b. An Interim Land
Use District known as an Interim Residential, Agricultural SandUse District as def in d
in Ordinance No: 278, is hereby established•.for allthat portion of the uninoorporat d
territory of the bounty of Contra Costa, State of California, as designated on a map
entitled "and designated as an !'Interim Land Use Districts Map for a,portion of the
Walnut Creek Grammer School ljistrict" which said map is herebymade a part,;of this
Ordinance and is so designated by certificates on the face of said map, and at the
time of the adoption of this Ordinance said"Map shall be.filed permanently in;the
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office of the County Clerk of the County of Contra Costa A photoetatsiQ' oopy or ;
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said Interim Lend Use ,Districts Map -for a porti-on oP the .Walnut Creek Pry ar
School 01 atrict 'is likewise made a part ofthis Ordinance and hereby becomes Page 3
of this Ordinance and is certified by the County Clerk-to be 'a true`and exact Dopy
of the original map.
SECTION 2: ENACTMENT AND ADOPTION. `rhia Ord in an as is hereby declared to
be an urgency measure and shall' teke effect and shall be in f ull force immediately
upon its adoption and within fifteen (1¢) days after said adoption shall be publishe ,
together with the Map accompanying the said Ordinance, with the names of the members
voting for and against the same for one (1)' week in the Courier-Journal, a newspaper
of general ,circulation, printed and published in said County. The conditions consti u-
ting such urgency are as follows, to wit: Certain uses of land, buildings and strut - ,
:res would, if established and conducted within any Interim Land Use District
established by this Ordinanee,,be a menace to the public health, safety and general
welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby finds that various persons intend to erec
buildings or structures and to use the same, and to use lan]for such purposes,
and'will do so unless restrained.therefrom. The immediate operation of this Ordinan e
iB therefore necessary in order to protect the public health, safety and general el e.
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The=:•foregoing 01RDINAME was passed and adopted by,the. Board of Supervisors of
th'e County. of Contra Costa, at a regular session of ,said Board, held on the 18th
day of November, 1940; by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan aryl Trenbath...
Noes: None.
Absent:..None
' W ,T.BU CHANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisora
of the County of Contra Costa, State .of
ATTEST:. S.C. WELLS California.
Coun y,Clerk and ex-ofP c o
Clerk of the Board of.Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 289.
AN ORDINMCE OF THE COUNTY CF CCNTRA COSTA, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE 140. 278 OF SAID COUNTY,
ADOPTED ON THE 29th DAY OF APRIL, 1940, BY AMMDING
SECTION 4 THEREOF, AND HAVING SAID SECTION 4 APPLY
TO AMENDING ORDINANCES NO.281 .and 288 AND TO ALL FUTURE
AMENDING ORDINANCES THERETO.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, do ordain as
follows, to wit:
SECTION 1: Ordinance No. 278, entitled "An Ordinance of the
County of Contra Costa, State of California, defining and establishing certain
temporary land use districts; applying certain temporary regulations as to the use
of land, buildings, structures and to the erection, construction, and alteration of
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structures and to the improvements placed on certain lands, pending the adoption
by the Board of Supervisors of a comprehensive zoning or distrioting plan; and
prescribing the method of enforcement in establishing said Interim Land Use Distric
and penalties for violation of any provisions hereof" passed and adopted by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa on the 29th day. of April, 1940,
as amended by Ordinance No. 281, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, on the 6th day of May, 1940, and as amended by
Ordinance No. 288, passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of
Contra Costa, on the 18th day of November, 1940, in which said Section 4 is estab-
lished in Ordinance No. 278 and likewise respectively applies to Ordinance No. 281
No.
and/288, is hereby amended .
SECTION 2: Section 4 of said Ordinance is hereby amended to read as
follows:
SECTION 4: COMPLETIDN AND RESTORATION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS AND
,ESTABLISHING OF LAND USES: No building, structure or land use, the construction
or use of which has heretofore been commenced but which has not been completed
or which use of land has not been in existence prior to the Board of Supervisors
' meeting previous to the adoption of this Ordinance or any amending ordinance shall
'hereafter be continued or completed for any purpose other than for the uses estab-
lished
stab-
lished in the Interim Land Use Districts as set forth in this ordinance or any
amendments thereto, or uses accessory and incidental thereto within any Interim
Land Use District, as hereinafter in this Ordinance set forth, unless and until, i
any such case, a permit for such completion ,shall first have been secured from
the Board of Supervisors of, said County. ^The procedure for securing any such permit
shall be the same as that provided for in Section 3 of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3: ENACTMENT AND ADOPTION. This Ordinance is hereby declared
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to be urgency. measure and shall take effect and shall be in full foroe immediately
upon its adoption and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall, be publishe
with the names of the members vot in for and against the same for one (1) week in the
Contra Costa Gazettes Martinez Daily Standard, a newspaper of general circulation,
printed and published in said county. The conditions constituting such urgency
are as follows, to wit: Certain uses of land, buildings and structures would, if ,
established and conducted within any Interim Land Use District established..by
Ordinance No. 278 or any amending Ordinances thereto, be a menace to the public
health, safety and general welfare. . Said Board of 6uperviaors hereby f inds that
various persons intend to erect buildings or structures and to use the same , and to '
use land for such purposes, and will do so unless restrainai therefrom. The immediat
operation of this Ordinance is therefore necessary in order to, protect the public
health, safety and general welfare.
The Foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, at a regular session of said Board, held on the 17th
day of February, 1941, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes-: Supervisors- None.
Absent: Supervisors- None.
(8EaL of Board) W. J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa, State of
ATTEST: S. C. WELIS, California.
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk '
of the Board of Supervisors of the County
of Contra Costa, State of California.
ORDINANCE NO. 290.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 278 OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA
COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED "AN ORDINAN CE OF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE Or CALIFORNIA, DEFINING AND
ESTABLISHING CERTAIN TEMPORARY LAND USE DISTRICTS; APPLYING
CERTAIN TEMPORARY REGULATIONS AS TO THE USE OF LAND, BUILDINGS,
STRUCTURES AND TO 4HE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, AND ALTERATION
OF STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVEMENTS PLACED ON CERTAIN LANDS,
PHQDING THE ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF A COMPREHENSIVE
ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN: AND THE PRESCRIBING THE METHDD OF
ENMRC121ENT IN ESTABLISHING SAID INTERIM LAND USE DISTRICTS AND
PENALTIES FOR VMLATION OF ANY PROVISIONS HERIDF'► AS AMENDED
BY ORDINANCE NO. 281 and ORDINANCE N0. 288; and THEREBY ESTABLISHING
AN INTERIM RESIDENTIAL AGRICULTURAL LAND USE DISTRICT FOR A PORTION
OF THE CONCORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, do ordain as ,
follows, to wit:
Ordinance No. 278, entitled "An Ordinance of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California, defining and establishing certain temporary land use districts,
applying certain temporary regulations as to the use of land , buildings, structures
and to the erection, construction, and alteration of structures and to the improveme is '
placed on certain lands, pending the adoption by the Board of Supervisors of a comp -
hensive zoning or districting plan; and prescribing the method of enforcement in as-
tablishing said Interim Lend Use Districts and penalties for violation of any provis-
ions hereof" passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra
Costa, on the 29th day of April, 1940, as amended by Ordinance No. 281, passed and
adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the 6th day of
May, 1940, and as amended by Ordinance No. 288, passed and adopted by the Board of
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Section` 'shall follow immediately after Section 3b, aad•which shall read as follows:
SECTION 1: ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS: Section 30. An' Interim Land Use
' District` known as an interim Residential 'Agricultural Land Use District as defined i
Ordinenoe No,. 276 is hereby established for all that portion of the unincorporated
territory of -the County of Contra Costa, State of California, as designated on a Map
entitled and designated as an "Interim Land-Use Districts Map for a portion of the
Concord Grammar School District" which said Map Is, hereby made a part of this Ordina oe
' and is so designated by certificates on the face of said Map, and at the time of
-the adoption of this Ordinance said Map shall be filed permanently in the office
of the County Clerk of the County of Contra Costa. :t photostatic copy of said
Interim Land Use Districts Map for a portion of the Conccrd Grammar School District
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is likewise made 'a part of this Grdinance hnd hereby becomes page 4 of this
Ordinance and is certified by the County Clerk to be a true and exact copy of the
original map.
SECTION 2: ENACTMENT AND ADOPTION: This Ordinance is hereby declared to
be an urgency measure and shall take effect and shall be in full force immediately
upon its adoption and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall be published,
together with the map accompanying the said Ordinance, with the names of the members
voting for and against the same for one (1) week in the Concord Transcript, a news-
paper of general circulation, printed and published in said County. 'Xhe conditions
constituting such urgency are as follows, to wit. Certain uses of land, buildings
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and structures would, if established and conducted within any Interim Land Use
District established by this Ordinance, be a menace to the public health, safety
and general welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby finds that various persons
intend to erect buildings'or structures and to we the same and to use land for such
purposes, and will do so unless restrained therefrom. The immediate operation of
this OrdInanoe is therefore neoessary in order to protect the public health, safety,
and general welfare:
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THE';FOREGOING ORDINANCE was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa, at a regular session of said Board, held on the lith '
day of February, 1941, by the following vote,to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buohanan and Trembath.
Noes: None. Absent: None.
W. LT. EKJCHANAN
ATTEST: S. C. WELLS Uhairman of the Board of SupeFv-isors
County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of County of Contra Costa, State of
of the Board of Supervisors of the California.
County of Contra Costa, State of
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ORDINANCE NO. 291.
ORDINANCE GRANTING TO PINOLE LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY, A` CORPORATION,
and ASSIGNS, .THE RIGHT, PRIVILEGE AND FRANCHISE OF ERECTING, CONSTRUCTING, AND
MAINTAINING ELECTRIC LINES CONSISTING OF POLES OR OTHER SUITABLE STRUCTURES AND
WIRES, CROSS-ARMS AND OTHER APPLIANCES INSTALLED THEREON IN SO.MAW AND IN SUCH
PARTS OF THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, STREETS`AND' ROADS OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA,
WITHIN ME VICINITY OF THE TOWN OF RODEO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS THE GRANTEE
OF SAID RIGHT, PRIVILEGE AND FRANCHISE MAY ELECT TO USE FOR THE PURPOSES HEREINAFTE
SPECIFIED, AND OF USING SUCH ELECTRIC LINES FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSMITTING, CONVEY
' ING, DISTRIBUTING AND SUPPLYING ELECTRICITY TO THE PUBLIC 14OR LIGHT, HEAT, POWER ANI
ALL LAWFUL, PURPO SES.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, DD ORDAIN AS FOLLOSS:
Section 1: The right, privilege and franchise of erecting, constructing
' and maintaining electric lines consisting of poles, or other suitable structures
and wires, cross-arms, and other appliances installed thereon, including wires
for the private telephone and telegraph purposes of the grantee, inso many and
in such parts of the public highways, streets and rodds of said County of Contra
Costa, within the vicinity of the Town of Rodeo as the grantee of said right,
privilege and franchise may elect to use for the purposes hereinafter specified,
and of using such electric lines for the purpose of transmitting, conveying, dis-
tributing and supplying electricity to the public for light, heat, power and all
lawful purposes, are hereby granted by said County of Contra Costa for the term of
fifty (50) ,years from and after the time when this ordinance shall take effect ,
to Pinole Light and Power Company a corporation, and assigns;
Section 2: All electric lines which shall be constructed and used under
and pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance and in the exercise of the right,
privilege and franchise herein'granted shall be erected and constructed in a good
and workmanlike manner under the direction of the Road Commissioner of the District
in which such highway, streets and roads are and shall be maintained in compliance
with all valid laws, ordinances and regulations from time to time in force.
Section 3: The owner for the time being of the said right, privilege
and franchise shall, immediately upon erecting, constructing,"replacing or repairing
the said electric lines, or any part thereof, at is own cost and-expense place said
highways, streets and roads, or so much thereof as may have been damaged thereby,
in as good order and condition as that In which they were before being disturbed or
excavated for •the purpose of erecting, constructing, replacing or repairing said
electric lines or any part thereof.
Section 4, The owner for the time being of said right, privilege and
' franchise shall have the right to maintain, repair, and replace any or all of such
electric lines from time to time as may be necessary and proper.
Section 5. The grantees of the aforesaid right, privilege and frandiisq
its successors and assigns, shall, during the term for whiehthe same is granted,
' pay to the said County of Contra Costa, two per oent (2%) of its or their gross
annual receipts arising from the use, operation or possession thereof; said percents e
shall be payable annually, and if such payment shall not be made, such right, privil ge,
and franchise shall be forfeited.
Section 6: • The said right, privilege and franchise area granted under and
pursuant to .the provisions of. the laws of the State of California wtiich relat e
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the. granting 'of. rights, "privileges and franchises by counties.
Section 7: That Pinole Light and Power Company, a corporation, its sueces -
ors, or -assigns,-will 'never o1.aim for the franohise herein granted a value in exoess
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of the actual .cost,thereof , and- provi'ded,, further,' that in the `event'`of' the fat ure
acquisition,bycondemnation, or otherwise, of such franchise, or rights and properti as
incident thereto, or used or useful in connection therewith, in whole or in part,
by eny public corporation, district or agency, no value whatever shall attach
to any intangibles,, including but not limited .to severance damages and going concern '
val ue.
Section S. This Ordinance shall take .effect and be in force upon the expir-
ation of thirty' days (30) diter its passage, and shall, before the expiration of fif-
teen (15) days after its passage, be published, with the names of the members of
said Board of Supervisors voting for and against the same, for one (1) week inthe '
Pinole Times, a newspaper published in said County of Contra Costa.
Passed this 17th day of March, 1941, by- the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath,
Noes: None. Absent: None.
W. S. BUCHANAN
ATTEST: Chairman of the Board of ,Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa.
S.C. WELLS
ounty Clerk oft the County of Contra Costa.
ORDINANCE NO. 292
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PARKING ON COUNTY HIGH- '
WAY C-32, IN THE COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa do ordain as
follows:,
SECTION 1: It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle to park
the same, or to stop the same for any purpose, between "No Parking" signs located on
the west side of County Highway C-32, from the northeast corner of the main office
building of the Associated 011 Company and extending in a general southerly direction
along said highway for a distance of one hundred and fifty (150) feet.
SECTION 2: - ArW person violating any of the terms of this Ordinance shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, .shall be punished by a Sine of not
exceeding Fifty Dollars (50.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more
than five (5) days; for the second offense within the period of one year's time, '
by a fine not to exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the
County Jail for not more than ten (10) dp9e, or both; for the third offense committed
within one year, by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by im-
prisonment for a period of not to exceed six (6) months in the County Jail, or by ,
both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 3: This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the
date of its adoption, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) dpys from the
passage hereof, shall be published for at :least one (1) week in:the MT. DIABLO•
BEACON, a newspaper printed and published in the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, together with, the names of the members of the Board of Supervisors
voting for and against the same.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the
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21st, day of April, 191�1by the following vote of the'Board, to-wit
AYES -Supervisors -"Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan ,and Trembath
"NOES. Supervisors - None`
ABSENT: Supervisors - None
W. J. BUCHANAN
' Chairman of e;board or Supervisors o
the County of Oolitra Costa, State of
ATTEST: .., California:
S. C. WELLS
County Clerk and ex-officio er o
the' Board of Supervisors, of the County
of Contra Costa, State of California.
ORDINANCE NO. 2
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 278
ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF
CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DE-
FINING AND ESTABLISHING CERTAIN TEMPORARY
LAND USE DISTRICTS: APPLYING CERTAIN
TEMPORARY REGULATIONS AS TO THE USE OF
LAND,, BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND TO THE
ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, AND ALTERATION
OF STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVEMENTS
PLACED ON CERTAIN LANDS, PENDING THE
ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
A COMPREHENSIVE ZONING OR DISTRICTING
PLAN: AND PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF
ENFORCEI-MIT IN ESTABLISHING SAID INTERIM
LAND USE DISTRICTS AND PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISIONS HEREOF".
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County do ordain as follows:
' SECTION I: Section 2 of Ordinance No. 278 is hereby amended to read as
follows
THE DEFINITIONS PERTAINING TO ALL SECTIONS OF THE INTERIM LAND USE DISTRICT
ORDINANCE:
For the purposes of this Interim Land Use Districts Ordinance and any
ordinance hereafter adopting a temporary Zoning or Districting Plan for any part of
the unincorporated section of Contra Costa County, or relating thereto, certain word
and terms are defined as follows: " i
SECTION II: Section 2b of Ordinance No. 278 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Words and terms used in this ordinance are herewith defined as follows:
1. AN INTERIM RESIDENTIAL AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT shall mean a district in
which the following uses shall be permitted: One-family dwellings, multiple
dwellings, and dwelling groups having accomodations for not more than four families,
' general farming, including all types of horticulture, dairying, livestock, poultry
raising, hog raising for the disposing of surplus agricultural products, temporary
stands or shelters for the display and sale of agricultural products produced on the
premises, temporary or permanent quarters for farm help, house- trailer camps for
farm help, and any other similar enterprises, or any use indigenous to the carrying
on of agricultural pursuits. Auto courts may be established subject to the securing
of a use permit. In any Interim Residential Agricultural District hereinafter set
forth, no farms operated for the disposal- of garbage, sewage, rubbish or offal and
rendering plants, hog raising for the feeding of garbage, or tourist house trailer
camps shall ever be permitted. No outdoor advertising structure or sign shall ever
be permitted, except official notices issued by a subdivider, signs noticing and
'advertising the sale, lease, or rent of any real property located in the County of
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Contra Costa; and,except signs not exceeding twenty (20) square feet in area, used
for the. designation of the name of:any owner or occupant of any premises or real ' .
propertylocated in .the county of Contra Costa or to identify such premises; and `
except signs used to advertise a business located or goods produced and sold upon
the property upon which such sign is situated; and- except notices posted by any,
public officer in performance of a public duty, or by any person giving any legal
notice. Other uses may be established if a permit is secured 16rom the County Board
of Supervisors if, in the opinion of said Board, they are similar in character to the '
uses hereinbefore enumerated and permitted, or are necessary to the fulfillment of
any enterprises above enumerated, and will not, in the opinion of said Board, be
detrimental to the immediate neighborhood or public welfare.
2. AN INTERIM NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT shall mean a district in
which all uses are permitted as are permitted in the Interim Residential Agricultural '
District. Other uses permitted shall be general businesses which are required as a
necessity or donvenience for the residents of adjoining territory and shall be in-
elusive of the following types of business: retail stores and shops, automobile
service stations, bakeries, banks, barber shops, beauty parlors, retail dry cleaning
establishments, laundry agencies, professional offices, public and storage garages,
telegraph offices, public utilities offices, and theaters. Hospitals, sanitariums,
rest homes, clinics and other establishments for the treatment of human ailments, and
any other use or uses not definitely prohibited by this ordinance may be established
if a permit is secured from the County Board of Supervisors if, in the opinion of
said Board, they are similar in character to the uses hereinbefore enumerated and
will not be detrimental to the immediate neighborhood or public welfare. If any
Interim Neighborhood Business District as hereinafter set forth, nojunk yard, '
tourist house- trailer camp, garbage• disposal plant, hog ranch for the feeding of
garbage or disposal plant of any type shall ever be established by a permit by the
Board of Supervisors. No outdoor advertising structure or sign shall bver be per-
mitted, except official notices issued by a subdivider,-signs noticing and advertis-
ing the sale,• lease, or rent of any real property located. in the County of Contra
Costa; and except signs not exceeding twenty (20) square feet in area, used for the
designation of the name of any owner or occupant of any premises or real property
located in the County of Contra Costa or to identify such premises; and except signs
used to advertise a business located or goods,produced and sold upon the property
upon which such sign is situated; and except notices posted by any public officer in
performance of a public duty, or by any person giving any Legal notice.
SECTION III: ENACTI.WT AND ADOPTION: This ordinance is hereby declared to '
be an urgency measure and shall take effect and shall be in full force immediately
upon its adoption and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall be published
with the names of the members voting for and against the same for one (1) week in
Contra Costa Standard, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in
said County. The conditions constituting such urgency are as follows, to-wit:,, '
Certain uses .of land, buildings and structures would, if established and conducted .
within any Interim Land Use District established by this ordinance, be a menace to
the public health, safety and general.welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby
finds that various persons intend to erect buildings or structures and use the same
and to use land.for such purposes, -and will do so unless restrained therefrom. The
immediate operation of this ordinance is :'therefore necessary in order to protect the
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public health, safety and general welfare.
THE'FOREGOING ORDINANCE was passed andadoptedby the Board of Supervisors
of the:County of Contra Costa at a regular meeting of said Board, held on.the 19
day of 'Clay, 1941, by the following vote,- to-wit:
AYES: Supervisors: Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath
NOES: Supervisors: None
' ABSENT: Supervisors: None
W. J. BUCHANAN
a rman of the Board of bupervisoFs-
of the County of Contra Costa,'
ATTEST: State of California.
' S. C. WELLS
County Clerk and Ex-officlo C er
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of
California
ORDINANCE NO.294.
AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS
OF THE COIUTY OF CONTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE
NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS, TERB46 AND COMPENSATION OF DEPUTIES
AND MPLOYEES THEREOF: AND REPEALING ALL.ORDINANCES,
OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THERENITH.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of
California, do ordain as follows:
' In the County of Contra Costa, .the County and Township officers,
deputies and employees shall receive as compensation for all services required of them
by law, or by virtue of their office, the following salaries:
1. One stenographer to the Board of Supervisors at a saXary of One
hundred and ten dollars (4110.00) per month, payable out of the salary fund of said
County; one second stenographer to the Board of Supervisors whose duty shall be to aid
and assist the stenographer to the Board of Supervisors in the performance of her dut ,
and whose compensation shall be fixed at ten dollars ($10.00) per month, payable out
of the salary fund of said County.
2. CLERK. The County Clerk, Five thousand dollars 05,000.00) per annum;
provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the County Clerk the
following clerks, deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the County Clerk
' and hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows: One Chief
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Deputy; at a salar46o hundred and forty dollars ($240.00) per month; two courtroom
deputies at a salary of Two hundred and twenty dollars 0220.00,1 per month, each;
one office deputy at a salary of Two hundred twenty dollars ($p220.00) per month;
one office deputy at a salary of one hundred sad sixty-five Dollars (4165.00).,per month;
two office deputies at a salary of One hundred and fifty-five dollars .0,0") per,
month each; and one office deputy at a salary of One hundred and forty dollars ($14.0., O)
per month; and such clerks as the County Clerk may appoint at a salary of Five and
and 25/100 dollars ($ 5.25) per day, or four and 50/100 dollars (44.50) per day, or
four dollars ($4.00) per day, each, provided, however, that the tocol amount d' safari s
or compensation paid to such clerks shall not exceed the sum of Eight hundred dollars
(0800.00) per annum; provided, further, that in any year when a General or Primary
Election, or a Special State, or County, or Munioilel., or District Election is to be
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held, or the compilation of registration. of voters is required by law, or supplement
to be made thereto, or the changing of precinct boundaries becomes necessary, the
County Clerk shall receive for the hiring ,of extra 4elp for the compiling of such
registration of voters and making supplements thereto and work incidental to said
election, and the re-precincting of voters after the changing of precinct boundaries, '
his actual expenses to be paid upon filing and presentation of duly verified claims
therefor, or claims approved by the County Clerk, with the Board of Supervisors of
said County, after proper allowance of said claim by said Board of Supervisors;
and provided, further, the said County Clerk may appoint such number of registration
deputies as may be necessary for the registration of voters in their respective precincts, '
each of said deputies to receive the sum of ten bents (106) per name for each elector
registered by him,said registration deputies to be paid Por their services on the
presentation and filing with the Board of Supervisors of said Lounty a duly veri-
fied claim therefor, on the general fund d' said County, after proper allowance of
said claim by said Board of Supervisors.
3• AUDITOR. There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Auditor the
following deputies , clerks and employees who shall be appointed by the Auditor and
hold office at his pleasure and shall be paid salaries as follows: Two)deputy auditors
at a salary of Two hundred and twenty-five dollars (4225.00) per month each; one
deputy Auditor at a salary of One hundred and ten dollars (w110.00) per month; two
deputy auditors at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars (4150.00) each; one
deputy auditor at.a salary of One hundred and thirty-five dollars (x135.00) per mont
one deputy Auditor at a salary of One hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) per month
two deputy auditors at a salary of one hundred and five dollars (;105.00) per month,
each; one deputy auditor at a salary of one hun dr ed dollars (w100.00) per month,
all of which last mentioned salary shall be charged against the cost of administrat-
ion of Highways and Bridges work; provided, further, that said Auditor is hereby
allowed such clerks and employees as he may deem necessary to appoint at a salary
of Five dollars ($5.00), four dollars (04.00) or, three dollars (03.00) per day,each;
provided, however, that the amount of such salaries and compensations paid to such
clerks and employees on a per diem basis shall not exceed the sum of Thirty-six hundred
dollars (0,600.00) per annum.
4. TREASURER: The Treasurer, Four Thousand dollars (44,000.00) per annum;
provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Treasurer the follo%
ing deputies, clerks and employees, who shall be appointed by the Treasurer, and shall ,
hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows: One Deputy
Treasurer at a salary of Two hundred and twenty-five dollars ( 225.00 ) per month ;
one clerk at a salary of One hundred dollars (4100.00) per month.
5. ASSESSOR. The Assessor, Five Thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum; '
provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Assessor b�he,-Xonowij g
deputies, clerks and employees, who shall be appointed by the Assessor and shall hol
office at his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries: One Chief Deputy
Assessor at.a salary of Two hundred and fifty dollars 0250.00) per month; one land
appraisal deputy assessor at a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars (4250.00)
per month; one improvement valuation deputy assessor at a salary of two hundred
and twenty five dollars ($225.00) per month; one improvement valuation;deputy assess r
at a salary of Two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month;' two deputy assessors at a
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at a salary of One hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) per month each; one transfer
deputy Assessor at 'a salary of One hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) per month;
one exemption deputy Assessor at a salary of One hundred and twenty-five Dollars
C$125.00) .per month; four field deputy assessors, to hold office not to exceed
' five months each in any one fiscal year, at a salary of One -hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) per month such]; one deputy Assessor at a salary of One hundred
and twenty five dollars (t125.00) per month; one imprarement valuation deputy assess r,
to hold office not to exceed 'six months in any one fiscal year, at a salary of two
' Hundred dollars ($200.00) per math, and'such additional deputy Assessors , Clerks,
and employees as the Assessor may appoint at Salaries of Ten dollars ($10.00)
per day, Eight dollars (48.00) per deny and six dollars ($6.00) per day, Four and
50/100 dollars ($4.50) per day, four dollars ($4.00) per day, and three and 50/100
dollars ($3.50) per day each; provided, however, that the total compensation of such
additional deputy assessors, clerks and employees shall not exceed the sum of Fifty-
two hundred dollars ($5,200.00) per annum; and provided, further, that the Assessor
is hereby authorized to contract with an abstract and title company for copies of
transcripts of recorded instruments affecting titles, at a oompensation of forty
dollars ($40.00) per month.
6. TAX COLLECTOR: The Tax Collector, Four thousand ($4,000.00) Dollars per
annum; provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to .the 'Tax Colleo or
'the following clerks, deputies and employees, who shall be appointed by the Tax
' Collector and shall be paid salaries as follows:One Deputy Tax Collector at a salary
of Two hundred and Twenty-five dollars ($225.00) per month; one deputy Tax Collector
at a salary of one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00) per month; one deput
tax collector at a salary of One hundred and fifty dollsrs\(4150.00) per month;
one deputy Tax Collector at a salary of One hundred and thirty,,dollars (Jv130.00)
per month; one Clexk at a salary of One hundred and forty-five dollars ($145.00)
per month; one stenographer-clerk at a salary of One hundred and thirty dollars
($130.00) per month; and such copyists and clerics as the Tax Collector may appoint
at a salary of Three and 50/100 dollars ($3.50) per day on four and 50/100 dollars
($4.50) per day each; provided, however, that the total amount of salary and oompen
sation paid to such copyists and clerks shall not exceed the sum of Five thousand
dollars ($5,000.00) per annum.
7. DISTRICT ATTORNEY: There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the
District Attorney the following deputies, clerks'and employees, who shall be' ap=
pointed by the District Attorney and hold office at his pleasure, and who shall b
paid salaries as follows: One Chief deputy district attorney at a salary of three
hundred dollars ($300.00) per month; three deputy district attorneys at a salary
of two hundred and twenty-five ($225.00) dollars per month each; two deputy District
Attorneys at a salary of Two hundred and twenty dollars ($220.00) per month each;
one detective who shall assist the District Attorney in the detection of crime and
prosecution of criminal oases, and in civil actions and'prooeedings, and all other
matters in which the County is interested, whose salary is herely fixed at the sum
of. two hundred and twenty-five dollars (0225.00) per month; one stenographer to
the District Attorney at a salary'of One hundred and forty-two dollars ($142.00)
per month;, one stenographer at a salary of one hundred and thirty-five. dollars
($135.00) per month; one stenographer at a salary of One hundred and twenty-five
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Dollars ($125.00)'per month; and one stenographer at a salary of One. hundred dollars
($100.00) per month.
8. CORONER. The Coroner, such fees as are now and may hereafter be allowe
by law, provided, however, that the Coroner shall be allowed for general services in
holding an inquest the sum of Tien dollars (410.00) and provided, further, that there
is herbby allowed to the Coroner one stenographer; whose duty it shall be to sot as
reporter and take down in shorthand,•and transcribe into lonehand.the testimony of th
witnesses at all inquests, which stenographer shall be appointed by the Coroner and
hold office at his pleasure and shall be paid a.salary of one hundred and forty dollars
($140.00) per month. ,
9. SURVEYOR: The Surveyor, Five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum,
provided, however, that the Surveyor shall not engage in private practice of angineeri ig,
or surveying, and provided, further, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed o
the Surveyor the following deputies and employees who shall be appointed by the
Surveyor and who shall hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid salaries
as follows: One Chief Deputy Surveyor at a salary of Three hundred and twenty dollar
(4320.00) per month; one deputy Surveyor at a salary of Two hundred and seventy-five
dollars ($275.00) per month; one engineer at a asalary of Two hundred and fifty dollars
($250.00) per month; one engineer at a salary of two hundred and forty dollars ($240.1)0)
per month; two draftsman at a salary of Two hundred and twenty five dollars (0225 .00)
per month each; one draftsman at a salary of Two hundred and Fifteen dollars ($215.00
per month; one instrument man at a salary of Two hundred and ten dollars (4210.00) '
per month; one chainman-at a salary of one hundred and thirty-five dollars (4135.00)
per month; one draftsman at a salary of One hundred and sixty dollars 0160.00)
per month; one levelman at a salary of One hundred and sixty dollars ($160.00) per
rponth; one rodman at a salary of One hundred and forty five dollars (4145.00) per
month; one stenographer at a salary of one hundred and Twenty-five dollars ($125.00)
per month; one 'chainmen at a salary of One hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125.00)
per month; one draftsman, to hold office not to exceed six months in any one fiscal
year, at a salary of Two hur-dred dollars (4200.00) per morth; provided, further,
that the Surveyor may employ additional ohainnent at a•wage of Five and 50/100 Dollars
($5.50) per day; transit-men at Eight dollars (48.00) per day; instrument men at Save
dollars ($7-00) per day; junior draftsmen at seven dollars ($7.00) per day; draftsmen
at eight dollars ($8.00) per day; engineers at Nine dollars (^$9.00) per day and ten ,
dollars 010.00) per day; and stenographers at Four dollars ($4.00) per day and Five
Dollars ($5.00) per day, when in the opinion of the Surveyor, such additional employ-
ees are necessary; provided, Surther, that the total amount of compensation paid for
such addi t ion al employees on a per diem basis shall n otin any fiscal year exceed the
sum of Three Thousand dollars ($3,000.00). ,
10. PLANNING CO2ATIMION. One Executive seoretary.and technician to the, County
Planning Commission at; d.salary of Two hundred and twenty five dollars ($225-00)
per month; one stenographer at a salary .of One hundred and ten dollars ($110.00)
per month; one senior planning draftsman.;at a salary of One hundred and fifty. dollars
($150.00) per month; provided, further, that such planning commission is herety allow
ed such clerks and employees as they may deem necessary to appoint at a salary of fou
dollars ($4.00) per day and five dollars (45.00) per day each; provided, however,
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that the amount of such salaries and aompaisatims paid to such Clerks or-employees
on a per diem basis shall not exceed the sum of One thousand, Four hundred and fift
dollars ($1,450.00) per annum.
11. CLASSIFICATION OF TOWNSHIPS: The population of the several judicial
' townships•for the purpose of fixing the oonpensation•of township officers shall.be
ascertained and declared by the Board of Supervisors in the month of July, 1939,
and in the month of July every four years thereafter as follows: said Board shall b
order at a regular meeting determine the population of each township to be three (3)
times the registration of legal voters on file July first cf said year in eaoh.township,
and every four years thereafter suceeding, and it shall declarethis sum to be the
population of each township. Said Townships shall father be classified as follows:
Class 1- Townships having a population of more than twenty thousand (20,000.)
Class 2" Townships having a population of from ten thousand and one
(10,00 .) to twenty thousand (20,000.)
Class 3- Townships having a population of from Seven thousand and me
(7,001) to Ten thousand (10,000.)
Class 4- Townshis having a population of from four thousand and one
(4,001) to seven thousand 7,000).
Class 5: Townships having a population of from two thousand and one (2,001)
to four thousand (4,000.)
Class 6: Townships having a papulation of from one thousand and one (1,001)
to two thousand (2,000);
Class 7: Townships having a population of less than one thousand (1,000) .
' 12. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE: Justices d the Peace shall rdoeive the
following monthly-salaries:
(1) Townships of the first class, Three hundred and seven dollars 0307.00)'1
per month.
(2) In Townships of the second class, one hundred and seventy-five dollars
($175.00) er month.
(3) In Townships of the third class, one hundred and fifty-four dollars
0154.00) er moth.
(4) In Townships of the Fourth Class, ane hundred and fifty-four dollars
($154.00) er month.
(5) In Townships of the fifth class, one hundred and ten dollars (4110:00
per month.
MIn Townships of the sixth class, Fifty dollars (050.00) r month.
In Townships of the seventh class, Twenty-five dollars (r225.00) per
month.
Provided, however, that from and after January 2, 1939, there shall be
and there is hereby allowed each month to each Justice of the Peace a sum equal to
twenty per cent (20%) pf his monthly salary as and for the use of his private offio
and/ pr office equipment in the performance of his official duties as Justion of the
' Peace. It is further provided that no Justioe of the Peace shall receive art► expen-
ses of any kind, except the said sum of Twenty per cent (20%) of said monthly salary
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall preolude the adid Justioes cf
the Peace from being reimbursed for moneys allowed tb them by law from fees received
in the filing of small claims actions.
For purposes cf this section, the various dockets and legal forms require
by the Justices of the Peace for the conduct of their offices shall not be deemed to
be expenses of their offices, but such dockets and legal forms, subject to the approial
of the District Attorney, shall be furnished by the County upon requisition to the
Purchasing Agent and the expenses thereof shall be defrayed from a general fund
appropriation for the purpose.
.!Et is fdrther proaided that Justices of the Peace of all townships shall
issue receipts for all money collected by them in the performance of their duties.
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13. SHERIFF. The. Sheriff, Five thoosand,dollara ($5,000.:00.) per annum; provide
that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff the fallowing deput lea
clerks, and employees who shall be appointed by the Sheriff and shall hold office at
his pleasure, and shall be paid the following salaries: One Undersheriff at a salary
of Two hundred and fifty dollars ($250:00) .per month; one deputy Sheriff at a salary
of Two hundred and twenty five dollars ($225.00) per month; three. deputy sheriffs '
at a salary of Two hundred dollars (0200.00) per month each; one deputy sheriff to
act as day jailer at a salary of One hundred and seventy-five dollars (4175.00) per
month; one deputy sheriff to act as a night jailer at salary of one hundred and seven y
five dollars ( 6175.00) per month; two deputy Sheriffs to act as bailiffs at a, salary '
of one hundred and eighty-five dollars ($165.00) per nonth eabh; one deputy sheriff
at a salary of one hundred and eighty-five dollars ($165.00) per month; two deputy
sheriffs at a salary of one hundred and seventy-two dollars (0172.00 ) per month each;
one deput y Sheriff to act as photographer at a salary of one hundred and seventy dollars
($170.00) per month; one deputy Sheriff to act as radio technician at a salary of two
hundred dollars ($200.00) per month; one deputy Sheriff at a salary of one hundred
and sixty dollars (0160.00) per month; one deputy sheriff at a salary of one hundred
and sixty five dollars ($165.00) per month; three deputy sheriffs at a salary of one
hundred and fifty dollars ($6150.00) per month each; three deputy sheriffs at a salary
of One hundred and sixty dollars ($;160.00) per month each; one deputy sheriff to act
as superintendent of the jail branch at a salary of two hundred dollars ($200.00)
per month; one secretary at a salary of one hundred and thirty dollars ($130.00) per '
month; one jail matron at a salary of one hundred and ten dollars (0110.00) per month
one' radio dispatcher at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ($6150.00) per month
one stenographer at a salary of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month; provided,
further, that the Sheriff may employ from one to five persons to act as deputy sherif
at a salary of four and 50/100 dollars (44.50) per day, when, in the judgment of the
Sheriff, such deputies are necessary:. provided, further, however that the total amount
of the o6mpensation for such additional ,deputies to be paid per diem shall not in
any fiscal year exceed the total sum of Two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) and provided
further, that the Sheriff may employ extra guards at the jail branch at a salary
of five dollard ($p5.00) per day, when, in the Judgment of the Sheriff, such guards
I are necessary; provided, however, that the total amount of the compensation for such
extra guards to be paid per diem shall notin any fiscal year exceed the total sum of
Sixteen hundred dollars (W00.00) ; provided further that the compensation of such '
last mentioned deputies and extra guards shall be paid upon presentation of duly
itemized verified claims filed with the Board of Supervisorsof said County in the
same manner that other claims are filed and paid..
There shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sheriff to be by him '
retained for his own use-all mileage for service of papers in civil actions arising
either in or outside of the County, excepting actions in which the County is interested,
and also all mileage in criminal cases for each mile.aotually and necessarily travele
by 'automobiles at the rate of five and one-half cents (5 1/20) per mile: All fees
collected by the Sheriff for the service of papers and processes in civil matters
shall be collected by the Sheriff for the use and benefit of the County, and shalt
by him be paid into the County Treasurer at such times and manner as required by law.
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"14: CONSTABLES. Constables in the several townships bhall_.receive;the fcl w-
ing'Bglaries
(1) In Townships of the first class, the.sum of One hundred and eighty
dollars ($180.00)per month.
' (2) In leownships of the 'seomd class, the sum of-one hundred and Eighty
dollars' ($180.00) per month-,
(3) In Townships of the third class, the sum of One hundred and eighty
dollars ($180.00) per month.
(4) In Townships of the fourth class, the sum of One hundred and eighty
' dollars ($180.00) per month.
(5) In `ownships of the fifth class, the sum of One hundred and eighty
04180.00) dollars per month.
(6) In Townships of the sixth class, the sum of One hurtled and twenty-fiv
dollars ($125.00) per month.
(7) In Townships of the seventh class , the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00)
per month.
It is further provided that constables in townships of the first, second,
third, fourth, and fifth classes, shall received the sum of Fifty dollars (050.00)
per month as and for the use of, their respective automobiles in the performance of
their duties as constables.
It -is further provided the constables in townships of the sixth and seven
' classes shall receive the sum of Twenty five dollars (425.00 ) per month e s and fort e
use of their respective automobiles in the performance of their duties as constables.
Each such constable shall file a claim on the first day of each and every
month for the preceding month, and no allowance shall be made to any such constable
for such use of his a utomo bile unless such a claim is filed ,by him as herein provide
It is further provided that no constable shall receive any mileage or
expenses of any kind, excepting•the sums above stated.
In addition to the salaries, compensations and fees above allowed, constab
les, in all clames of townships may receive for their respective use in civil oases
the fees allowed by law.
15. RECORDER: The Recorder, Four thousand dollars 04,000.00) per annum,
provided, that there shall 'be and there is hereby allowed to the Recorder the follow
' ing deputies, clerks and employees who shall be 8ppointed by-the County Recorder and
hold office at his pleasure, and shall be paid salaries as follows: One Deputy
Recorder at 'salary of Two hundred dollars* (4200.00) per month; one deputy Recorder
at a salary of One hundred and sixty-five dollars (4165.00)per month; one deputy
Recorder at a salary of one hundrod and forty dollars (4140.00) per maonth; two index
' clerks at a salary of one hundred and thirty-five dollars (4135.00) per month each;
two copyists at a salary of One hundred and Thirty-five dollars 00135.00) per month
each; one copyist at a salary of One hundred and twenty dollars (4120.00) per month;
three comparing clerks at a salary of one hundred and five dollars ($105.00) per mon h
each; and two copyists at a salary of One hundred and five dollars (4105.00) per mon h
each; one depAty Recorder at a salary of One 'hundred and fifty-five dollars (4155.00
per konth; and such copyists as the County Recorder shall appoint at a salary- of
three and 50/100 d3lars ($3.50) per day and four dollars (44.00) per day each;
provided, however, that the total salaries on a per diem basis (or by folio at the
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discretion of the Recorder, -as hereinafter.mentioned), paid to said la at named oopyi st a
shall not. exceed the sum of Three thousand dollars ($3,000-00) per annum; .and provided,
further, that the County.Recorder at his discretion may pay copyists the sum of Pour
cents (40 -per folio (100 words) actually copied, instead of upon a monthly or per
diem Basi s.
16. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. The Public Administrator, such fees as are now or '
may hereafter be allowed by law.
17. SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES. The Sealer of Weights and Measures , Two
thousand, Five hundred and twenty dollars (42,520.00) per•annum; provided, that ther
shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Sealer of Weights and Measures two deputy '
sealers of weights and measures at a salary of One hundred and sixty dollars (0160.0o)
per month each; and such stenographers and clerks as the Sealer of Weights and Measures
may appoint at a salary of Fourcbllars (44.00) per day each; provided, however,
that the total amount of salary- and compensation paid to such stenographers and cler s
shall not exceed the sum of Two hundred and fifty dbllars ($ 250.00) per annum.
16. AGRICULTURAL COMMISSIONER. The Agricultural Commissioner, Twenty-seven
hundred dollars (62700.00) per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is
hereby allowed to the Agricultural Commissioner the following inspectors and clerks
to be appointed by said Commissioner and to hold office at his pleasure, and the
salaries hereby fixed as follows, to wit: One standardization inspector at a salary
of one hundred and fifty dollars (0150.00) per month; one clerk at a salary of
One hundred and ten dollars 0110.00) per month; and five rodent inspectors at a '
salary of six dollars (46.00) per diem each, during the time actually employed,
but the aggregate amount which may be expended in any year for such rodent inspector
shall not exceed the sum of Seven thousand dollars (47,000.00) per annum.
19. PROBATION OFFICER. The Probation Officer, Three thousand Dollars (03,000.00)
per annum; provided, that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to the Probation
Officer one assistant probation officer at a salary of One hundred and eighty dollar
(4180.00) per month; one deputy probation officer at a salary of One hundred and fifty
dollars ($150.00) per month; one depdty probation officer at a salaryof One hundred
and twenty dollars (4120.00) per month; and one stenographer at a salary of One
hundred dollars (4100.00) per month.
20. HEALTH OFFICER. The County health Officer, Four Thousand Dollars
($4,000.00) per annum, provided that there shall be, and there is hereby allowed to
the County Health Officer the following nurses, clerks and employees, who shall be '
appointed by the County Health Officer, and hold office at his pleasure, and who shall.
be paid salaries as follows: Une supervising nurse at,a salary of One hundred and
seventy-five dollars ($175.00) per month; one nurse at a salary of one hundred and
t4irty-five dollars (0135.00) per month; two'nurses at a salary of one hundred and
forty dollars 00140.00) per month each; one dental hygienist; for seven months in the '
year at a salary of one hundred and forty-five dollars (M5.00); one stenographer
clerk at a ysalary of one hundred and fifteen dollars (4115.001 per month; one part-
time clerk at a salary of Fifty-five dollars (055.00) per month, and one part-time
nurse at a salary of One hundred dollars (,VlOO.00) per month.
21. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS: The Superintendent of Schools, Five Thousand
dollars (,$5,000.00) per annum; provided that there .shall be and there is hereby
allowed to the Superintendent of Schools the following deputies, clerks and employsea
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who shall be appointed by the Superintendent of 'Sbhoo1s and hold office at his
pleasure, and who shall be-paid salaries as' f ollows: One field deputy buperintendel t
of schools'to assist the,-superintendent do the discharge of his duty in visiting
end examining schools as provided.by law, and it shall be the duty of said field
deputy superintendent to make written reports of his examination, to be transmitted
' by the' Superintendent of Sohools to each trustee of all school districts so examinec ,
which said field deputy superintendent shall receive a salary of ttree hundred Bolla a
($300.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a salary of One hundr
and fifty dollars ($150.00) per month; one deputy superintendent of schools at a
' salary of one hundred and fif ty dollara° (4150.00) per month; one deputy superintendent
of schools' at a salary of One hundred and ten dollars ($110.00) per month; one depu y
superintendent cC sohools at a' salary•of une'hu'ndred dollars ($100.00) per month;
and such clerks and employees as he may deem necessary to appoint at a salary of
three and 50/100 dollars ( 63.50) per day and four and 50/100 dollars ($4.50) per de
each, provided, however, that the amount of such salaries and compensations paid
to such clerks and employees on a per diem basis shall not exceed the total sum of
Two hundred and ninety-five dollars (4e295.00) per (annum.
22. COUNTY LIBRARIAN: The County Librarian, Three thousand dollars
($3,000.00) per annum.
23. SUPERVISORS. Each Supervisor shall receive for his expenses as Super-
visor and Road Commissioner, Five and one-half cents (5 1/20) per mile each way
traveling to and from his residence while engaged in the *performance of the duties
of supervision of public roads, or other business of the County, said mileage
not to exceed three hundred dollars ( 6300.00) per annum while traveling within the
County of Contra Costa and in addition thereto shall be allowed at the rate of
Five and ons-half cents (5 1/20«) per mile for actual miles traveled without the
County of Contra Costa as mileage for the performance of County business outside th
County.
It is further provided that there shall be and there is hereby allowed to
each supervisor a sum not to exceed Twenty-five per cent (250 ) of�his monthly
salary for expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his office. Each Super-
visor shall file an itemized statement, supported by receipts or vouchers, on the
first day of each and every month, designating the actual expenditure on his part o
expenses necessarily incurred in the conduct of his said office, for the preceding
' month, and no allowance shall be made to any supervisor for expenses neoessnrily
incurred in the conduct of his office unless the same shall be itemized and designs ed
in said claim filed by him, as herein provided.
24: BONDS. The cost of bonds of County Officers, their assistants, deput-
ies and employees, such as required by law to be furnished when executed with a
reliable bond and surety company, and duly approved, shall be a charge against the
County payable out of the General Fund.
25. ALLOWANCE FOR ACTUAL AND NECESSARY EXPENSES. Actual, reasonable
and necessary expenses shall be allowed all the officers of the County and their
deputies in the discharge of their official duties, subject to such limitAions as ale
elsewhere.herein provided. Detailed expense. accounts must 'be rendeibd on the first
day of each month for the expenses incurred in the previous month. For traveling
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and 'he shall be 'allowed .his actual trqveling expensea,whe4e travels by rail.
26.,, s "-$OVA PAID. Salaries of all officials, deputies, clerks and
employees herein provided Por shall be
• paid by the CDunty in monthly installments
s at the same time and in the same manner, out of the. same fund as the salaries of
County Officers are.paid, except as herein otherwise ordained; provided, however,
that the salary,and� compensation of all,clerks, engineers, copyists and employees
of every, kind, working on a per diem basis, shall be paid only.upbn their filing wi tt ,
x and allowance by ,the Board of Supervisors of said County,, of their duly verified
claims for the sums due them; provided, further`, that at the election of the employe , '
indicated•byvritten instructions of such employee, filed by him with the County
Auditor, a portion of- his salary or wages may be paid on his behalf direct to'his
insurer to cover the amount of the monthly premium on any insurance contracted for b
him under any group insurance plan arranged by him in conjunction with other employe s.
All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are her by
repealed; and provided, further, ,
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 3rd day
of July, 1941, and before the eigiration of fifteen days after the date of $ts passag
the same shall be published with the names of the members voting for and against the
same in the Courier-Journal, a newspaper printed and published in the County of
Contra Costa.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the '
2nd day of June, 1941, by the following vote:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: Supervisors- None.
Absent: Supervisors- None.
W. J. BUCHANAN
(SEAL OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS) Chairman of the Board of Supervisor
of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
ATTEST: S.C. WELLS
ounty Clerk and exoff o o ,Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Coate, State of
Calif ornia.
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ORDINANCE.NO. 295
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A LOCAL DEFENSE COUNCIL AND PRESCRIBING
ITS DUTIRS AND RESPONSTNILITIES
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WHEREAS, on May 28, 1940, the President of the United States created a Council
of National Defense and an Advisory Commission thereto for the purpose of assisting
in the coordination of the various governmental, industrial, agricultural, economic,
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and other activities essential to preparing for the defense of the United States; and
?MREAS, the Council of National Defense and its Advisory Commission have re-
commanded that the National Defense Program and activities related thereto be carried
on through regular governmental channels insofar as possible; and
WHEREAS, the Council of National Defense and its Advisory Commission has offic
ially requested the California Council of Defense to assist and to expedite the forma
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' Ition of local oounoils of defense; and
WHEREAS, the County of Contra Costa desires to assist in the program of Nat-
ional Defense by coordinating all of its public and private facilities, resources and
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activities with the program aforesaid;
NOW THEREFORE:
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa does ordain as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby created the Contra Costa County Defense Council.
Section 2. The Defense Council shall be composed of two representatives of the
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Board of Supervisors, to be designated by the Board of Supervisore; the District Attor
ney; the Sheriff; County Engineer; County Health Officer; other appropriate County
officers; and one representative from each of the incorporated cities within the countr,
Ito be nominated by the governing body of each such city and appointed by the Board of
' ISupervisors. Such additional members as may be required to carry out the purpose of
:this ordinance, not exceeding twenty-five in number, may be appointed by the Board of
(Supervisors upon recommendation of the Council as constituted above.
The Council shall designate a Chairman and Vice-Chairman from among the members
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the Council and may appoint a Secretary who need not be a member of the Council and
who shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him by the Council.
Section 3. The members of the Defense Council, other than those designated by
Titles, shall serve for a term of one year and until their successors are appointed an
qualified, as provided in Section 2. A four-fifths vote of all the members of the
card of Supervisors will be required to remove any member of said Defense Council
from office prior to the expiration of his term of office. Vacancies on the Defense
ouncil shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointment.
Section 4. It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Defense Council to
' oordinate the activities within the county of governmental and private agencies, and
of individuals, cooperating in the defense effort; to stimulate public interest and
participation in defense activities; to consider and recommend to appropriate govern-
mental authorities plans for the public safety, health and welfare; to plan a major
' disaster program, capable of functioning in a defense emergency, and to perform such
other advisory functions as may be requested of it by officials of the city, county,
state, and Federal agencies engaged in the defense effort.
Said Council shall receive, acknowledge and appraise proffers of facilities,
services and ideas originating within the community and make appropriate dispositions
of same; clear information concerning defense programs and objectives among cooperat-
ing agencies; recommend adjustments or arrangements necessary for prompt assimilation
of government programs for defense to the appropriate officers, departments or agen-
oies; receive requests for assistance from the State Council of Defense and from
340 Ordinance No.. 295 -- Continued
Federal defense authorities and transmit these requests to the proper authorities or
agencies; accumulate or assist in the accumulation of information regarding local
governmental, financial, economic, industrial and human facilities and resources and
transmit any such facts, as well as other necessary information,. to the State Council
of Defense and to Federal defense authorities.
Every department, commission, officer, and employee of the County of Contra
Costa shall cooperate with and assist the Defense Council so as to enable the Council
to aocomplish the objectives of this ordinance. '
Section 5. There is hereby created as permanent committees of the Defense Coun
cil: (1) Committee on Civil Protection, which shall consider defense matters rela-
ting to the public safety, the protection of civil liberties and the maintenance of
law and order, including the preparation of a disaster preparedness plan; (2) Com-
mittee on Human Resources and Skills, which shall assist in the registration of perso a '
for defense work of all kinds, cooperate with governmental agencies in making plana
for defense training of skilled workers and other persona engaged in defense work re-
quiring special training, and analyze and report to the Defense Council on all prof-
fers of assistance from private persons and organizations; (3) Committee on Health,
Welfare, and Consumer Interest, which shall consider activities designed to oontribut
directly to the social, physical and economic well-being of the individual and the
family, protection from want, protection against unwarranted rise in prices; (4) Com-
mittee on Transportation, Viorks and Facilities, which shall consider provisions for
necessary structures, works for water supply and transportation, highways, airports
and other transportation facilities; (5) Committee on Public Information, which shal
serve all committees of the Council as a medium through which to inform the public o
defense activities, develop plans for the use of newspapers, radio, and other means o '
public information, and attract and sustain citizen interest and participation in de-
fense work; (6) Committee on Industrial Resources and Production, which shall con-
sider the industrial resources of the county as these relate to defense production
and assist in making the most advantageous use of such facilities; (7) Committee on
Agricultural Resources and Production, which shall consider the conservation and use
of land and the crops and livestock it supporta, the growing and marketing of plant
and animal products for consumption as food or as raw materials entering into indus-
trial production.
The Defense Council may create other permanent oommittees and such temporary
committees of the Council as the Council deems necessary and shall define their dutie
within the purpose of this ordinance and may abolish any such committee. The chair-
men of the permanent committees of the Defense Council shall be designated by the '
Chairman of the Council from among the members appointed as provided in Section 2 of
this ordinance. Members of permanent committees other than the chairman and all mem-
bers of temporary committees shall be appointed by the Chairman of the Defense Counci
and need not be members of the Defense Council,
Section 6. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure neo- '
essary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and
shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication as re-
quired by law. The following is a specific statement showing the urgency of this or-
dinanoe;
An emergency exists in the United States and in this State in providing ads-
quate National and Local Defense. It is necessary that ,all information be gathered
relating to National•Defense and to provide for the proper cooperation and 000rdina-
Ordinance No. 295 -- Continued .341
tion of public and private agencies so that .adequate Loaal. Defense may be provided fo
at as early a date as possible
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE was.passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa, at a regular session of said Board, held on the 16th day
of July, 1941, by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
' NOES: Supervisors, None.
ABSENT: Supervisors, None.
W. T. Buchanan
Chairman of Board of Supervisors
ATTEST: of the County of Contra Costa, State
of. California.
' S. C. Wells
oun y er and Ex-Officio
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
ORDINANCE NO. 296.
TO R�FTHE ODh9&SOARTENSY 0YOPICERSBO H COUNW OF
CONTRA COSTA, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE NUMBER, APPOINTMENTS,
TERhB AND C01TINSATION OF DEPUTIES, AND EMPLOYEES THEREOF,
AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CCNFLICT THEREWITH.
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, State of California,
' do ordain as follows:
Section 7 of Ordinance No. 294 of the County of Contra Costa is
hereby amended to read as follows:
In the County of Contra Costa, the County and Township officers,
deputies and employees shall receive as compendation for all services required of the
by law, or by virtue of their office, the following salaries:
7. DISTRICT ATTORNEY., There shall be and there is hereby alloyed to the
District Attorney the following deputies, clerks and employees, who shall be appoints
by the District Attorney and hold office at his pleasure, and who shall be paid
salaries as follows: One Chief Deputy District Attorney at a salary of three hundred
dollars (4300.00) per month; three deputy district attorneys at a salary of two hundr d
and twenty-five dollars (4225.00) per month each; one deputy dist riot attorney at a
' salary of two hundred and twenty dollars ($220.00) per month; one deputy district
attorney at a salary of one hundred seventy-five dollars (0175.00) Per month; one
detective who shall assist the District Attorney in the detection- of crime and pros-
ecution of criminal cases, and in civil actions and proceedings and all other matter
in whioh the County is interested, whose salary is hereby fixed at the sum of Two
hundred and twenty- five dollars (w225.00) per month; one stenographer to the District
Attorney at a salary:,of one hundred. and forty-two dollars ($142.00) dollars permonth;
one stenographer at a salary of one hundred and thirty-five dollars 0135.00) per mont ;
one stenographer. at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars (4125.00) per mon h;
and one stenographer at a salary of one hundred dollars (*100.00) per month;
This Ordinance shall take,effeat and be iii foroe from and after the 28th
day of August, 1941, and before the expiration of fifteen days after the date of it
passage, the same shall be published with the names of the*members voting f or and
against the same in the "Crockett Signal" a newspaper printed and published in the
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Countyof Contra Costa.
t►dopted by.the Board of Supervisors'of the County of - Contra Costa , on the
28th day of July; 1941, by the following vote,_to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan ,and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
W. J. BUCHANAN '
chairman of theBoard of SupervTsors
of Contra Costa County, State of
ATTEST: Callfornia.
S.C. WELLS
County Clerk and ex-offo o Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the County.
of Contra Costa, Estate of Cali fbnia.
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ORDINANCE NO. 297
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 278 OF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA
COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DEFINING AND
ESTABLISHING CERTAIN TEMPORARY LAND USE DIS-
TRICTS: APPLYING CERTAIN TEMPORARY REGULATIONS
AS TO THE USE OF LAND, BUILDING, STRUCTURES AND
TO THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, AND ALTERATION OF
STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVEMENTS PLACED ON
CERTAIN LANDS, PENDING THE ADOPTION BY THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS OF A C014PREHEISIVE ZONING OR DIS-
TRICTING PLAN: AND PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF
ENFORCEMENT IN ESTABLISHING SAID INTERIM LAND
USE DISTRICTS AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF ANY ,
PROVISIONS HEREOF", AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO.
281, ORDINANCE NO. 288, ORDINANCE NO. 289,
ORDINANCE NO. 290 and ORDINANCE NO. 293: AND
THEREBY ESTABLISHING AN INTERIM RESIDENTIAL DIS-
TRICT FOR THE DISTRICT KNOWN AS THE UNINCORPORA-
TED DISTRICT OF RICHMOND ANNEX AND RICHMOND
ANNEX ADDITION.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa do ordain as.
follows, to-wit:
SECTION 1: Section 2b of Ordinance No. 278 is hereby amended by adding
the following definition:
7. INTERIM RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT shall mean a district in which no use of ,
any land, building or other structure, which use is other than one-family residential
in character, shall hereafter be established or established and conducted, and no
building or other structure which is designed and/or intended to be used for any '
purpose other than one-family residential in character shall hereafter be erected,
constructed, moved or converted unless and until, in,any such case, a permit for such
establishing or establishing and conducting or for such erection, construction,
moving or conversion shall first have been secured from the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa. In any Interim Residential District hereafter set forth, '
no land shall be used for the disposal of garbage, sewage, rubb1sh or offal and ran-
daring plants, hog raising for the feeding of garbage, or any junk or automobile
wrecking yard, or tourist house trailer campsshall ever be permitted. No outdoor
advertising structure or sign shall ever be permitted, except official notices issued
by a subdivider, signs noticing and advertising the sale, lease, or rent of any real
property located in the County of Contra Costa; and except signs not exceeding twenty
(20) square feet in area, used for the designation of the name of any owner or
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occupant of any premises or real property located in the County of Contra Costa .
or to identify such premises; -and except signs used to advertise a business located
or goods produced and sold upon the property upon which such sign is situated; and
except :iotices posted by any public officer in performance of a public duly, or by
any person giving any legal notice.
SECTION 2: Ordinance No. 278 is hereby amended by adding Section 3d which
said section shall follow immediately after Section 30 and which shall read as
.follows:
SECTION 3d; ,An Interim Land Use District known as an Interim Residential
District as defined in this ordinance is hereby established for all that portion of
the unincorporated territory of the County of Contra Costa, State of California,
' being located within the bounds of Richmond Annex and Richmond Annex Addition aid
which shall be designated on a map to be prepared for adoption by the Board of Super-
visors at their regular meeting of October 6, 1941, which said map shall be known as
the "Interim Land Use Districts Map for the Unincorporated Territory of Richmond
Annex and Richmond Annex Addition", and which map upon its adoption is hereby made a
part of this ordinance and is so designated by certificates on the fact of said map,
and at the time of the adoption of the map it shall be filed permanently in the
office of the County Clerk of the County of Contra Costa.
SECTION 3: ENACTMENT AND ADOPTION: This Ordinance is hereby declared to b
an urgency measure and shall !take effect and shall be in full force immediately upon
its adoption and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall be published
with the names of the members voting for and against the same for one (1) week in
the Richmond Daily Independent, a newspaper of generalcirculation, printed and pub-
lished in said county. - The conditions constituting such urgency are as follows,
to-wit: Certain uses of land, buildings and structures would, if established and
conducted within any Interim Land Use District established by this Ordinance, be a
menace to the public health, safety and general welfare, Said Board of Supervisors
hereby'finds that various persons intend to erect buildings or structures and to use
the same, and to use land for such purposes, and will do so unless restrained there-
from. The immediate operation of this Ordinance is therefore necessary in order to
protect the public health, safety, and general welfare.
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THE FORMING ORDINANCE was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the Cou4ity of Contra Costa, at a regular session of said Board, held on the 15th
day of September, 1941, by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Supervisors James N. Long, H. L. Cummings, Ralph Bollman, W. J.
Buchanan and R. J. Trembath
NOES: Supervisors-none
ABSENT: Supervisors-none
W. J. BUCHANAN
Chairman of the Board of bupery soars
of the County of Contra Costa,
State of California.
ATTEST:
S. C. WILLS
oun y C-lerrc and Ex-Ofr1cio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa,-State of
California.
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M, ORDINANOE NO. 296.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA 'COSTA, RELATING TO
BRAID PRECAUTIONS.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, does hereby- ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1: As used in this ordinance the following words and phrases shell '
mean:
"Air Raid Warning Signal" shell mean a signal, by siren, whistle, horn'JDr
other audible device, of two minutes durationconsisting of either a fluctuating or
warbling signal of varying pitch or a succession of intermittent blasts of about '
five seconds duration separated by s silent period of about three seconds.
"till Clear Signal" shall mean a continuous signal, by siren, horn or other
audible device, of two minutes duration at a steady pitch.
"Period of Air ,Raid Alarm" shall mean the interval of time between the
giving of the air raid warning signal and the giving of the next succeeding all clear
signal.
1113lackout Structure" shall mean any space so enclosed that any illuminat-
ion maintained or existing therein is not visible from any point outside such enclosure.
SECTMN 2: The Sheriff is hereby authorized and directed to cause the
sounding of an air raid warning signal and of an all clear signal when, and only when,
the district in which the county is located is notified so to do by the United State
Aircraft Warning Service.
SECTIO: Any person who effects or maintains any illumination, or
permits any illumination under his control to be effected or maintained, at any
place within the County of Contra Costa during any period of air raid alarm in the
hours of darkness, except within a blackout structure, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor.
isde-
meanor.
SECTION 4: The maintenance or leaving of any illumination , except
within a blackout structure, without provision for its extinguishment, within one
minute after the commencement ct a period of air raid alarm by a competent person
over the age of eighteen years attendant at the place where such illumination is
controlled, is hereby prohibited.
SECTIO14 5: In order to enable the Sheriff to donf orm to the request
of the United States Aircraft Warning service for the obscuration, diminution or ex-
tinguishment of any illumination, whlather in or out of doors, which increases the '
vulnerability of the County of Contra Costa, or any portion thereof, to air attack,
or for the regulation of traffic during the period of air raid alarm, the Sheriff
may adopt and prmulgate reasonable rules and regulations for such purposes, and any
rules or regulations, so adopted by him shall be and rennin in effect for thirty (30)
days thereafter, but no longer unless approved within saidresolution of ,
the Board of Supervisors; provided, however, that any rule or regulation so adopted
by the. Sheriff may at any time be rescinded by resolution of the Board of Supervise s.
Violation of any such rule or regulation so adopted and promulgated is hereby deola -
ed to be a misdemeanor.
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Section: •6: It`:shall be unlawful to'disobey any lawful direction or order
of a peace officer,- highway patrolman, or fireman given during a period of air raid
alarm, which order is reasonably necessary for.'the maintenance of public order
or safety or to effect.the extinguishment or obscuration of light.
Section 7: Any illumination contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance,
' or to any rule or regulation adopted and promulgated in accordance with section 5
hereof, oonstitutes a public nuisance, and the same may be-summarily abated by
any peace officer, highway patrolman, or fireman. An�structure may be entered by an
peeve officer, highway patrolman, or fireman, using reasonsble force if necessary,
' for the purpose of abating such a nuisance by extinguishing such illumination.
SECTION 8: At the c omen cement of a period mf air raid alarm, the operator
of any motor vehicle shall forthwith bring such vehicle as far as possible to the
side of the street, road or highway off the main traveled portion thereof , and
the operator of such motor.vehicle, and the operator of any street car, shall bring
such motor vehicle or etreet oar to a stop clear of any crossing, intersection,
fire house, fire plug, hospital or other emergency depot or area, and during the
hours of darkness shall extinguish all lights therein or thereon end said motor
vehicle or street car shall remain so situated during the period of air raid alarm,
unless directed or ordered to move by a peaco officer, hightiay patrolman, or fireman
SECTION : The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to blackout
emergency vehicles, which shall include the following:
' (1) All Army and Navy vehicles.
(2) All Vehicles with United States Government credentials indicating the
necessity of emergency movement;
(3) All authorized emergency vehicles as defined in sections 44 and 44.1
of the Vehicle Code of California.
(Q) All vehicles of the California State Guard.
(5) All vehicles certified by Sheriffs, district Attorneys, the California
State Highway Patrol, police departments, and fire departments, when within the res
peotive territorial jurisdictions of the certifying off ice, as being essential to the
preservation of the public peace and safety or to the dissemination of public infor -
ation or to the national defense; provided , however, that such vehicles shall confoin
to the uniform lighting regulations epproved by the Department of Motor Vehicles
and the California State Highway Patrol for blackout emergency vehicles.
' SEction 10: It shall be unlawful for any person without authority, durin
any air raid alarm, to use, wear, exhibit or possess any uniform, insignia, credential,
or other indication of authority, or any imitation thereof, adopted and issued
by any dfficial civilian def ense organization.
SECTION II. Any person who shall operate a siren, whistle, or other
audible device in such a manner as to simulate an air raid warning signal or an all
clear signal, except upon order of the Sheriff or other proper authority shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 12: The provisions of every ordinan oe of this county and ever
administrative order made pursuant thereto, requiring any illumination. to ba Minta n-
ed in conflict with this ordinance or with any rule or regulation made pursuant to
section 5 of this ordinance, shall be deemed suspended during the period between an
air raid'warning signal and the next succeeding all clear signal.
SECTION 13: Any person who shall violate any provision of this
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1. danger of air and other attack by the enemy. .
This .Ordinance shall take effect, and shall be in full force immediately -
r,:' . upon its adoption and within fifteen days after said adoption shall be published
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with the names of the members voting for and against the same for one week in the
Contra Costa Gazette and. Richmond Daily Independent, newspapers of general oirculati n 1
printed and published in said County.
SECTION 15: If any provision of this Ordinance or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect
-other provisions dr applications of this ordinance which can be given effect without
the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance
are de�lred to be severable,
e foregoing ordinance was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
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of the County of Contra Costa at a regular adjourned meeting of said Board held on tt e
17th day of December, 1941, by the fbllowing vote, to wit:
Ayes: supervisors- Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes! Supervisors- None. .
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; Absent: Supervisors- None. .
W. T. BUCHANAN
s —Th—airman of a Board,of S upervisors
, of the County of Contra Costa, State
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r•. - of California.
ATTEST:
S.C. VIEILS
County Clerk and ex-off o o Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of
California.
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ORDINANCE NO. 299..
AN ORDINANCE AMDING ORDINANCE NO. 234, REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS IN THE,COUNT of CONMA COSTA OUTSIDE, OF INCORPORATED.
CITIES, AND MENDING SECTIONS XI AND =4THERIDF.
The Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, Calif ornia, do ordain as
follows
I.
Section XI of Ordinance 234 of the County of Contra Costa, is hereby amend
ed to read as follows:
SECTION XI: Stopping prohibited in specified places. It shall be unlawfu
for the operator of any vehicle to park or stop such vehicle in any of the following
' places, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic 6r in compliance
with a traffio sign:
1- In an intersection within a business or residence district.
2- In a crosswalk, as defined in section I hereof.
3- Within fifteen (15) feet of an intersection roadway, provided this
provision shall not be construed to prevent notor buses stopping to receive or disch rge
passengers at a designated bus stop, nor shall it apply outside of business and
residence districts.
4:- Between sunset and sunrise upon all streets or highways within any
business or residence district, as designated and determined by resolution of the
Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County, California, and which designated places
the County Engineer shall have marked by placing and maintaining red paint upon the
entire curb surface fronting such area with the words "No Parking between Sunset and
Sunrise" painted thereon in"black letters, or by placing and maintaining appropriate
signs directing that the stopping or parking of vehicles is prohibited;
Upon all streets within any business or residence district, .the County
Engineer is hereby authorized and required to designate such areas wherein parking
or stopping is prohibited by resolution of the Board of Supervisors, by placing and
maintaining red paint or red material upon the entire curb surface fronting upon
such area, with the words "No parking between Sunset and Sunrise" painted thereon
in black letters, omitting any crosswalk area, or by placing and maintaining appro-
priate signs directing that the stopping or parking of vehicles is prohibited. The
County Engineer is also hereby authorized and empowered to mark and designate safety
zones in accordance with the provisions of the California Vehicle Act.
Ii.
' Section XIX of Ordinance No. 234 of the County of Contra Costa is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Section XIX: Scope of ordinance. The provisions of this ordinance shall
apply only to unincorporated towns in the County of Contra Costa, having a population
of 2000 or more inhabitants, which population shall have been determined by the pre-
vious census , and the population of (baid towns having a population of 2,000 inhabi-
tants shall be outside of the boundaries of incorporated cities or towns within such.,
County. It is hereby made the duty of the Sheriff and all Constables of the County
of Contra Costa to enforce the provisions of this Ordinance.
' This Ordinance is required for the immediate preservation of the public
peace,"health and safety, and the following. is the statement of facts constituting
such urgency: The United States is at war; and this County is in great and continuing
danger of air and other attack by the enemy:, and at times during peri oda of air rai
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warning, it is necessary and essential that streets be.kept clear for the passage
of fire, police and other necessary emergency vehicles.
This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption, and prior
t to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage hereof, shall be published
for at least*bne (1) week in Crockett Signal, a newspaper printed and published
in the Oounty of Contra Costa, State of California, together with the names of '
the members of the Board of Supervisors voting for and against the same.
Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, on the
17th day of December, 1941, by the following vobe of the Board, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: Supervisors- None.
Absent: Supervisors- Idone.
W. T. BUCHANAN
Chairman oft the Board of Supery sors
of County of Contra Costa, State of
ATTEST: California.
S C. WELLS, /
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
of Contra Costa County, State of
Calif orni a
ORDINANCE NO. 300. '
AN ORDINANCE AL'IENNDING ORDINANCE NO. 278 OF THE COUNTY OF CONTRA
COSTA, STATE Or CALIFORNIA, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE
COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DEFINING AND ESTAB-
LISHIEIG CERTAIN TEMPORARY REGULATIONS AS TO THE USE, OF LAND,
BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND TO THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION AND
ALTERATION OF STRUCTURES AND TO THE IMPROVEMENTS PLACED ON
CERTAIN LANDS, PENDING THE ADOPTION BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF A COIRREHENSIVE ZONING OR DISTRICTING PLAN: AND PRESCRIBING
THE METHM OF ENFORCEMENT IN ESTABLISHING SAID INTERIM LAND
USE DISTRICTS AIM PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION OF ANY PROVISIONS
HEREOF" AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 281, ORDINANCE N0: 288,
ORDINANCE NO. 289, ORDINANCE NO. 290, ORDINANCE NO. 293,
and ORDINANCE NO. 297, and THEREBY ESTABLISHING AN INTERIM
RESIDENTIAL AGRICULTURAL LAND USE DISTRICT, INTERIM INDUSTRIAL
LAND USE DISTRICT, AND A DEFENSE AREA DISTRICT.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, do orcb1n as
follows, to wit:
SECTION 1: Section 2b of Ordinance No. 278 is hereby amended by adding
the following definitions:
r 8. INTERIM INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT shall mean a district in which is permitt d '
all uses set forth in an Interim Residential Agricultural District, an Interim Neigh-
borhood Business District, and an Interim Residential District, together with any
heavy industrial uses as now established within the unincorporated area of Contra
Costa County and inclusive of gasoline or oil storage, lugiber yards , blast furnaces,
boiler shops, coke ovens, petroleum distillation plants, and the manufacturing of an '
of the following materials: Acetylene gas, ammonia, asphalt or products, asbestos,
babbit metal, bleaching powder, bronze powder, carbon (lanpblaok or graphite) cellu-
loid, coal tar or products, creosote or products, disinfectant, emery cloth or sand
paper, explosives, feWtilizer, gas, glucose, glue or size, lime or products, linoleu ,
matches,cdL cloth, paint (oil or shellac) poison, potash, printing, ink, pulp or papa ,
rubber, steel, starch, suplhurio acid, tar or asphalt rocfLng, turpentine, vinegar,
and yeast. In any Interim Industrial District hereinafter set forth no land shall be
used for the disposal of garbage, sewage, rubbish or offal and rendering plants,
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hog raising for the feeding of garbage, or ark..gunk or autannbile wrecking yard,'
or tourist house trailer camps shall ever be permitted
9. DEFENSE AREA DISTRICT shall mean a district in which there are pr,ojooted,'
by the Federal Government certain areas under the authority of the United States on w ich
' lands there will be established land uses and structures which said uses will be
for the purposes of defending the United States. A Defense Area District may be
superimposed over any interim or comprehensive land use district of the County of
Contra Costa for the purpose of further land use control and more direct control
' by the Board of Supervisors of said County. The Board of Supervisors may on Board
Order Prohibit the use of any kind or the erection of any building or structure
or prevent the alteration or removal of any structure without a permit from said
Board, which said use, construction, alteration or removal has been reported to said
Board as being in conflict with the purpose of this ordinance by any Federal, State,
or County Official. The Board of Supervisors in any Defense Ares. District may
likewise, for the purpose of the defense of this Country and for the purpose of
carrying out ahy Federal activity within the boundary of any Defense Area District,
permit the use of any land by Board order under a use permit which is not permitted
in any of the interim land use or comprehensive distriot s heretofore established by a iy
land use district in the county of Contra Costa. The Board of Supervisors hereby
declare that it is the purpose of this section to allow the hoard of Supervisors to
more properly interpret proper uses of land under this emergency period and the
' necessity of such districts. It is their further intent to protect the properties
and lands in the environs of that under use by the"Federal Government, and the
investment of public funds spent thereon, and for the construction of highways, and
for the general welfare, inherent to the orderly and decent treatment of the County
of Contra Costa by insuring the best possible location of all buildings necessary
for the Federal project and the prevention of establishment of other detrimental
uses of land.
SECTION 2: Urdinanee No. 278 is hereby,amended by adding Sections 3e and 3f
which said sections shall.follow immediately after Section 3d and, which shall read
as follows:
SECTION e: Interim Land Use Districts known ap an Interim Residential
Agricultural District end en Interim Industrial District are hereby established for
all that portion of the unincorporated,territory of the County of Contra Costa, State
of California, as designated and delineated on a Map entitled the "Interim Land Use
Districts Map for the Rancho Los Medanos District and Vicinity" which said Map
shall be prepared for adoption by the Board of Supervisors at their regular meeting
' of March 2nd , 1942, and which said Idap shall delineate and designate the areas >ar
said Districts as at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance are olearly.ugd,erstoo
by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa,_ and which Map upon its
adoption is hereby made a part of this Ordinance and is so designated by certificate
on the face of said Map, and %4hich said Map at the time of its adoption shall be filed
permanently in the office of the oounty Clerk of Contra Costa County.
8BCTION 3f: For the purposes of this Ordinance there is hereby established
a Defense Area District over both the Interim Residentie�, Agricultural District and
the Interim Industrial District•as established in this ordinance and as designated on
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the Map ,entitled the:"In ter im.Land Us Distriota Map for the Rancho Loa Madames
District and Vioinity" :and which said_Map likewisedesignates and del ineatea the.
superimposed Defense Area District as herein defined in this Ordinance.
SECTION 3: ENACTMENP AND ADOPTION.: This Ordinance is hereby declared to be
an urgency Measure and shall take effect and shall be in full force .immediately
upon its adoption and within fifteen (15) days after said adoption shall be publishe
with the names of tho members voting for and against the same for one. (1) week in
Pittsburg Post Dispatch, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published
in said County. The conditions constituting such urgency are as follows, to wit:
Certain uses of lard , buildings and structures would, if established and conducted '
within any Interim Land Use District established by this Ordinance, be a menace to
the public health, safety and general welfare. Said Board of Supervisors hereby
finds that various persons intend to erect buildings or structures and to use the
same, and to use land for such purposes, and will do so unless restrained therefrom,
The immediate operation of this Ordinance is therefore necessary in order to protect
the public health, safety, .and general welfare.
The foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Contra Costa at a special aessiog of said Board, held on the 24th day
of February, 1942, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Supervisors Long, Cummings, Bollman, Buchanan and Trembath.
Noes: None.
Absent: None.
ATTEST: W.X.BUCHANAN
airman of the Roard of Supervisors '
S.C. WELLS of the County of Contra Costa, State
County Clerk ana ex-officio Qlark of California.
of the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Contra Costa, State of
California.
ORDINANCE NO. 301.
ORDINANCE RELATING TO UFFICERS, DEPUTIES, ASSISTANTS AND EMPLOYEES
of the County OF CONTRA COSTA, AND THEIR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES, IN
RE1;ATION TO THEIR COUNTY OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENT MURING AND AFTER
TERIAINATION OF, THEIR SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES, OR TRAINING
AND SERVICE IN THE LAND OR NAVAL FORCES OF THE UNITED SPATES.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Uontra Costa, do ordain as '.
follows:
Section 1: All deputy officers,; assistant officers and- employees of the
County of Contra Costa, upon,leaving any connty office or employment upon his `enlist
t.
gent, induction, oommissi'on or drafting into the armed forces of the United States, '
> or upon entering the land'o r navel forces of the United States for training and ser
vice
ervice therein under the provisions of the Selective 'Training and Service Act of 1940
r ' and subsequent selective training and service sots, shall have the right to return
' to his said county office or employment within six (6) months of his honorable dis-
v:
charge therefrom, or release from active duty therein but in no case later than
six (6) months after the.date (1)` of termination; of any war in which the United
!W= States is engaged,
or (2) o! pra.clam�tori,by the Governor finding and proclaiming