In 1984 they were protected by a county ordinance, after many pine areas had been depleted.

The proposed county ordinance covered housing and public accommodations, as well as employment.

And in Seattle, where the Haynes case received wide publicity, such a county ordinance has already passed.

Milton adopted the existing county ordinances on December 1.

Conservation measures were passed in local, state, and county ordinances.

The tax levy, he said, would then be lowered by an amount equal to the savings through the passage of a separate county ordinance.

Cases arising from the violations of a county ordinance.

Under county ordinance, the maximum pay for his post is $79,000 a year.

All county ordinances were enacted by the Board of Supervisors.

Several Forest Service employees have filed lawsuits of the their own, saying the county ordinances were being used to harass them.