Until an application is made and approved in the manner prescribed in this article and a grading permit issued, no grading, stripping, cutting or filling of any site within the City shall be done; no grading, cutting, stripping or filling of any site within the City shall be done without strict compliance with the circumstances set forth in the grading permit; and no real property which has been graded, stripped, cut or filled under the provisions of this article shall be sold, transferred, leased or otherwise disposed of without providing the grantee, transferee, or lessee a copy of the grading permit and a verified statement that the same has been duly complied with.
Any owner, person, lessee, contractor or workmen who performs any grading, stripping, cutting or filling of any site within the City without obtaining a permit therefor or without strictly complying with the circumstances set forth in the grading permit or without providing upon the sale, transfer, lease or disposal of said property a copy of the grading permit together with a verified statement that the same has been duly complied with or who shall continue to grade, strip, cut or fill any site after being served with a stop work order issued hereunder except such work as that person is directed by the Building Inspector to perform to secure the site or protect the site from any unsafe condition shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00.
(Ord. 1119. Passed 1-25-00.)