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HomeMy WebLinkAbout42101 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Ordinance No. 4210 AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF BUTTE REPEALING SECTION 2-25 OF THE BUTTE COUNTY CODE RELATING TO BOUNDARIES OF THE SUPERVISORIAL The Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte ordains as follows: Section 1. Findings. A. The government of the United States of America perforins a general census every ten (10) years. B. California Elections Code sec. 21500 requires that a Board of Supervisors, elected by Districts, "shall, by ordinance or resolution, adopt boundaries for all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the supervisorial districts shall be substantially equal in population as required by the United States Constitution." C. Section 2-25 of the Butte County Code is amended every ten (10) years to replace legal descriptions of all five (5) Supervisorial Districts. D. This Ordinance would repeal the entire section listing legal boundaries of the Supervisorial Districts. E. The Board of Supervisors shall pass a resolution adopting new boundaries, which will be available to the public at the Clerk of the Board's office. 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 F. The Board of Supervisors may subsequently adopt an ordinance adopting the new boundaries of Supervisorial Districts in an addition to the Butte County Code. Section 2. Section 2-25 is repealed in its entirety from the Butte County Code. Section 3. Severability. If any provision of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is for any reason held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed severable, and the invalidity thereof shall not affect the remaining provisions or other applications of the Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application thereof. Section 4. Effective Date, Operative Date and Publication. This Ordinance shall be operative and in full force on and after December 9, 2021 or the effective date of a resolution adopted by the Board of Supervisors establishing new supervisorial boundaries, whichever is later, as long as the date is more than thirty (30) days after the date of its passage. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors is authorized and directed to publish this Ordinance before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its passage. This Ordinance shall be published once, with the names of the members of the Board E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8� 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 of Supervisors voting for and against it, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Butte, State of California. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte, State of California, on the 9th day of November, 2021 by the following vote: AYES: Supervisors Lucero, Ritter, Kimmelshue, Teeter and Chair Connelly NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None I Bill Connelly, Chatr Butte County Board of Supervisors ATTEST: Andy Pickett, Chief Administrative Officer and Clerk of the Board By: VAN IDepity 3