(A) Any person owning real property within the city may request the City Engineer to determine whether such real property complies with the provisions of this chapter and the State Subdivision Map Act.
(B) Upon making such determination, the City Engineer shall cause a certificate of compliance to be filed for record with the County Recorder. The certificate of compliance will identify the real property and shall state that the division of land complies with applicable provisions of the City Municipal Code and the Statue Subdivision Map Act.
(C) Compliance.
(1) If the City Engineer determines that such real property does not comply with the provisions of the Municipal Code or State Subdivision Map Act, he or she may, as a condition to granting a certificate of compliance, impose such conditions as would have been applicable to the division of the property at the time the current owner of record acquired the property, and which had been established at such time by ordinance, Upon making such a determination and establishing such conditions, the City Engineer or authorized representative shall cause a conditional certificate of compliance to be filed for record with the County Recorder. Such certificate shall serve as notice to the property owner who has applied for the certificate pursuant to this section, a grantee of the property owner, or any subsequent transferee or assignee of the property, that the fulfillment and implementation of such conditions shall be required prior to subsequent issuance of a permit or other grant of approval for development of the property.
(2) Compliance with such conditions shall not be required until such time as a permit or grant of approval for development of such property is issued.
(D) A recorded final map or parcel map shall constitute a certificate of compliance with respect to the parcels of real property described therein.
(E) For the purposed of administration of this section, any parcel that is shown on the County Assessor's maps prior to 1960 shall be considered as a conforming parcel.
(F) A fee to be charged at actual cost shall be charged to the applicant for making the determination and processing the certificate of compliance. A deposit may be required to be applied toward this fee.
('61 Code, § 10-2.1003) (Ord. 252 C.S., passed 8-3-81)