Paradise Municipal Code Art. VIII Enforcement

All departments and employees of the town vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the provisions of this title and shall issue no permit or license for uses, buildings or purposes in conflict with the provisions of this title, and any such permit or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this title shall be null and void.

(Ord. 264, § 2(part), 1995: Ord. 214, § 2(part), 1992)

A. Investigations, penalties, abatement and enforcement of the provisions of this title shall be conducted or applied as specified and regulated in this code. In addition, all violations of this title shall be investigated by the planning director or his designee within seven days of the written request for such investigations. The site shall be inspected and the planning director shall determine if the site was and is being used in concurrence with the zoning regulations governing the site.

B. The planning director shall provide mailed notice to the owner and occupant of the site within seven days of the site investigation as to the results of the investigation. All requests for investigation and enforcement of zoning violations shall be on a form provided by the community development department and shall require the name, address and phone number of the complainant and the location of the alleged violation.

C. All zoning violations shall be abated within thirty days of the mailing of the notice of violation to the owner and occupant of the subject property, unless the planning director determines that a different amount of time will be applied to prevent harm. If the violation continues beyond the thirty-day period, or other established period, or if the violation is reestablished, then the procedures set forth in this code shall apply.

(Ord. 264, § 2(part), 1995; Ord. 214, § 2(part), 1992)

Any violation of the provisions of this title by any person shall be unlawful.

(Ord. 264, § 2(part), 1995; Ord. 214, § 2(part), 1992)

A. Any building or structure set up, erected, constructed, altered, enlarged, converted, moved or maintained contrary to the provisions of this title and any use of any land, building or premises established, conducted, operated or maintained contrary to the provisions of this title shall be and is declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance.

B. The town attorney shall, upon order of the town council or town manager, immediately commence action or proceedings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment thereof in the manner provided by law, and shall take such action and shall apply to such courts of competent jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate and remove such building or structure or use, and restrain and enjoin any person from setting up, erecting, building, maintaining, or using of such building, structure, or use contrary to this title.

(Ord. 264, § 2(part), 1995; Ord. 214, § 2(part), 1992)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this title shall be guilty of an infraction with fines pursuant to Government Code Section 36900. Any additional violation of this title within one year of the first violation shall be prosecuted by the town attorney as a misdemeanor with a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and/or six (6) months in the county jail; and provided, however, the town attorney shall have the discretion to reduce the misdemeanor to an infraction. Each day such violation is committed or permitted to continue constitutes a separate offense and is punishable as such.

(Ord. 332, § 15, 1999; Ord. 264, § 2(part), 1995; Ord. 214, § 2(part), 1992)