Title 9 PEACE, SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 9.68 COUNTY PROPERTY*
9.68.010 Removing or destroying laws or ordinances.
9.68.020 Damaging county sign, poster, notice or traffic control device.
* For statutory authority for the county board of supervisors to offer and
pay rewards from county funds, for the furnishing of information leading to the
apprehension and conviction of persons who wilfully destroy or damage property
of the county, see Gov. Code § 26207; for statutory power of counties to
manage property as the interests of its inhabitants require, see Gov. Code
§ 23004.
9.68.010 Removing or destroying laws or ordinances.
Every person who intentionally defaces, mutilates, obliterates, removes,
tears down, or destroys any copy, transcript, or extract from or of any law or
laws of the state, or who defaces, mutilates, obliterates, removes, tears down,
or destroys any copy, transcript, or extract from or of any ordinance of the
board of supervisors, the same being posted, affixed, or set up for public
inspection by authority of law, in any part of the county, is guilty of a
misdemeanor. (Ord. 73 § 1, 1902).
9.68.020 Damaging county sign, poster, notice or traffic control device.
A. It is unlawful to shoot at, damage, destroy or mutilate any county
sign, poster, notice or traffic control device owned by the county or placed by
the county on any county road. Any person convicted of the violation of this
subsection, or of Section 602(f) of the Penal Code is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
B. The board of supervisors hereby offers a reward of two
hundred fifty dollars to any person furnishing information leading to the arrest
and conviction of any other person for a violation of this section or of Section
602(f) of the Penal Code. Such reward shall be paid from county funds pursuant
to Section 26207 of the Government Code, and the determination of the person
entitled to said reward is vested in the board of supervisors.
C. This
reward may be offered and publicized by signs, notices and other advertising as
the board of supervisors shall determine, provided that the board may delegate
to any county officer or department, authority to prepare such signs, notices
and designations. (Ord. 269 § , 2, 3, 1963).
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