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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 09091997 - 97-33 C30 ORDINANCE NO. 97- 3 (Penalty for Abandonment of Animal) The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code). SECTION I_ SUMMARY. This ordinance amends section 416-4.604 "Penalties" to provide that violation of section 416-4.404 "Abandonment" is a misdemeanor and punishable as such. SECTION II. Section 416-4.604 is amended to read: 416-4.604 Penalties. (a) Notwithstanding Section 14-8.004, and pursuant to Food and Agriculture Code § 3 140 1, violations of Division 416 of this code, excepting Chapter 416-10 and Article 416-12.2, are punishable by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and not more than one hundred dollars for the second or subsequent offense. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) above, violation of section 416-4.404 Abandonment, excluding abandonments under section 416-8.014, is a misdemeanor and punishable as such. (Ords. 97-33§2; 80-97). SECTION III. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage, and within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors voting for and against it in the Contra Costa Times , a newspaper published in this County. PASSED ON September 9, 1997 , by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Rogers, Uilkema, Gerber, Canciamilla, DeSaulnier NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, clerk of the Board and County Administrator r © � By: Deputy 1 ley Casillas Board Chair Mark DeSaulnier 1