HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 11091993 - 93-80 ORDINANCE NO. 93- 80
(Urgency Ordinance: Civil Parking Penalties)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows :
SECTION I. SUMMARY. This ordinance is an urgency ordinance
providing for civil penalties for the violation of regulations
governing the standing or parking of vehicles .
SECTION II. Chapter 14-10 is added to Division 14 of Title 1
of the Contra Costa County Ordinance Code, as follows :
Chapter 14-10
Civil Penalties
14-10.002 Violation - Civil Penalties .
Notwithstanding any contrary provision, any violation of an
ordinance code section governing the standing or parking of a
vehicle is subject only to a civil penalty and civil fees and
charges, as provided pursuant to sections 40200 and 40203 . 5 of
the California Vehicle Code.
14-10.004 Civil Penalty Schedules .
The Board of Supervisors shall establish and modify from time to
time, by resolution, schedules of parking penalties for parking
violations, late payment penalties , administrative fees, other
related charges, and civil penalties for standing and -parking
violations, as provided in California Vehicle Code section
40203 .5 or as otherwise provided by law.
SECTION III. URGENCY DECLARATION. This ordinance is an
urgency measure required to implement the transition of standing
and parking vehicle violation sanctions from the penal system
administered by the courts to a civil penalty system administered
by the counties and other local agencies . State law requires
that the transition take place before January 1, 1994 and the
courts in Contra Costa County have required that the transition
occur on November 10, 1993 .
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SECTION IV. EFFECTIVE DATE AND EXPIRATION DATES. This
ordinance becomes effective immediately upon passage on November
9, 1993, and shall be operative until February 1, 1994 . Within
15 days of passage, this ordinance shall be published once with
the names of the Supervisors voting for and against it in the
CONTRA COSTA TIMES , a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED ON November 9, 1993 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Powers, Bishop, McPeak and Torlakson
NOES: None
.ABSENT: Supervisor Smith
ABSTAIN: None
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors and
Count A 'nistr or � j�r► I�%�S.D�.
By:
Board Chair
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