(a) It shall be the duty of the City Engineer to enforce this Title. All departments, officials, and public employees of the City who are 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 any use, building, or purpose in conflict with the provisions of this Title. Any permit or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this Title, or obtained by fraud, shall be null and void.
(b) The City Engineer may employ any available federal, state, or other source of geologic, hydrogeologic, soils, slope, or vegetational data as well as information on previous nearby slope failures, in order to determine the landslip/soil slippage potential category of any land proposed for development. The City Engineer shall state in writing the source or sources of information on which such designation is based. (See Section 1155.01, Appendix A.)
(Ord. 279(22-23). Passed 6-15-23.)