(a) When the maintenance, condition, construction, or use of any real property is such that it violates any section of the Thousand Oaks Municipal Code, and such a situation violating that Code continues past the date for City code compliance, as set forth in a written notice to the owner or party in possession informing them of that violation, the City may do all or any part of the following:
(1) Record with the Ventura County Recorder a Notice of Violation of the Thousand Oaks Municipal Code setting forth all violations related to the real property.
(2) Require the owner to obtain from the City a Certificate of Compliance indicating the correction of the Code violations, and pay a certificate processing fee which will be equal to all the costs incurred by the City in connection with its inspection and code enforcement efforts from the initial discovery of the situation until such violations have been corrected and such certificate can be issued. The certificate shall be issued when the property is in full compliance with the City Codes.
(3) Require the owner, as part of the application fee for any needed permit which the property owner failed to obtain before the activity or use was initiated, to pay a code enforcement cost surcharge in an amount equal to the City’s cost for its code enforcement efforts.
(4) Request, as a condition of probation or sentencing on any criminal conviction of such City code violation, that the defendant provide full restitution to the City for such inspection and code enforcement costs.
(b) The written Notice of Violation described in Subsection (a) shall be mailed to, or personally served on, the owner of record of the real property on which the code violation exists, and, if deemed appropriate by the City, to the party in possession of that property. The notice shall contain a warning that the owner may be obligated to pay all of the City’s code enforcement and inspection costs incurred in obtaining compliance with the Code should the property owner not correct the violation within the time specified in the written notice.
(§ 1, Ord. 1140-NS, eff. March 17, 1992)