(A) No department, commission or employee of the County of San Benito vested with the duty or authority to issue or approve permits, licenses or other entitlements shall do so when there is an outstanding violation, including, but not limited to, a failure to abate a nuisance as described in this chapter within 14 calendar days of the date of service of the decision of the Board of Supervisors requiring abatement, or such other time specified by the Board of Supervisors, involving the real property to which the pending application pertains.
(B) The authority to deny shall apply whether the applicant was the occupant or owner of record at the time of such violation or whether the applicant is either the current occupant or owner of record or a vendor of the current owner of record pursuant to a contract of sale of the real property, with or without actual or constructive knowledge of the violation at the time he or she acquired his or her interest in such real property.
(C) Upon recordation of Notice of violation or notice to abate, all departments, commissions, and/or employees shall refuse to issue permits, licenses, or entitlements involving the premises except those necessary to abate such violation.
(E) The enforcing officer may waive the provisions of this section regarding refusal to issue if he or she determines such waiver to be required to allow necessary or desirable remedial, protective or preventative work.
(Ord. 960, § 1, 2017; Ord. 1,029, § 2(part), 2021)