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 Butte County
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS*

  § 1-7. General penalty; continuing violations.  

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  • (a)

    Whenever in this Code or in any other ordinance of the county or in any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, any act is prohibited or made or declared to be unlawful or an offense, or the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be unlawful or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided for, the violation of any such provision of this Code or any other ordinance, rule or regulation of the county shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

    (b)

    Notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary in subsection (a) of this section or in chapters 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 23B, 24, 26, 26A, 26B, 27, 28, 28A, 28B, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38 or 53, whenever any provision in any of said chapters provides that any act is prohibited or made or declared to be unlawful or a misdemeanor or an infraction, or requires the doing of any act or declares the failure to do any act unlawful or a misdemeanor or an infraction, the violation of such provision may be charged as an infraction and punishable as specified in section 41-5 of this Code. This subsection shall apply to the violation of any provision described herein, including but not limited to the following sections of this Code: 4-1, 4-1.1,4-1.2, 4-1.3, 4-1.5, 4-2, 4-3, 4-13, 10-1, 10-2, 10-8, 10-22, 11-2, 11-4, 11-5, 11-6, 11-7, 11-8, 11-10, 11-11, 11-18, 13-3, 13-104(a), 14-1, 14-4, 14-5, 14-12, 14-15, 14-21, 14-28, 14-30, 14-47, 14-48, 14-61, 14-80, 14-91, 19-3, 19-4, 19-5, 19-7, 19-18, 23B-3, 23B-10, 24-4, 24-5, 24-6, 24-36.2, 24-63.1, 24-68, 26-6, 26A-4, 26A-12, 26B-5, 27-6, 28-4, 28A-2, 28B-2, 31-1, 31-5, 31-7.5, 31-8, 31-8.5, 31-11, 32-10, 33-3, 33-4, 37-7, 37-8, 37-9, 37-16, 37-22, 37-23, 38-4, and 53-12.

    (c)

    Every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinance, rule or regulation of the county continues shall constitute a separate offense.

(Ord. No. 2053, § 1, 10-9-79; Ord. No. 2301, § 1, 7-27-82; Ord. No. 2708, § 2, 10-4-88; Ord. No. 2774, § 6, 8-29-89; Ord. No. 3036, § 1, 11-17-92; Ord. No. 3824, § 6, 7-23-2002; Ord. No. 3925, § 2, 2-14-06; Ord. No. 3936, § 1, 6-13-06; Ord. No. 4154 , § 3, 1-29-19)