Memorandum
Date: September 14, 2021
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Anita Grant, County Counsel
Subject: Discussion and Consideration of an Ordinance Amending Article VII of Chapter 13 of the Lake County Code relating to Administrative Fines and Penalties
Executive Summary:
Attached here for your Board's review and consideration is a draft of an ordinance which would amend Article VII of Chapter 13 of the Lake County Code relating to Administrative Fines and Penalties.
Your Board had requested further changes/additions/inclusions to be made to Article VII.
I have endeavored to make those adjustments here to the extent legally advisable and did make some further clarifying adjustments as well to avoid a disjointed presentation of this Article.
I am hopeful the track changes will present clearly in the draft document, but in the event that is not the case, a fully formatted version is included here with the substantive changes highlighted in yellow for your convenience. Additionally, the further changes to the ordinance are delineated as follows:
1. Definitions -
- Section 13-47 (f) removed the words "other than personal use" from the first line of the definition of "cannabis operations"
- Section 13-47(g) adjusted the definition of a continuing violation to show it is a violation that persists from day to day.
- Section 13-47(k) is added to include "High Severity Violation"
- Section 13-47(l) replaces what would be a definition of a hearing officer with the Initial Review of Citation process conducted by a County department. The hearing officer references were added but never thoroughly described to make them useable. Those references and a more thorough procedural description can easily be added in at your
Board's direction.
Section 13-47(p) added a definition for "Population Centers".
- Section 13-47(q)(iii) Consultant is added.
2. Section 13-48.3c adds and clarifies how the Board may determine to further clarify the...
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