(a) The provisions of this Code shall be enforced by the officers and authorized representatives of the City agencies, departments, and offices charged with the responsibility of administering, implementing, and ensuring compliance with the provisions of this Code. Among these, but not limited to, are the following designated enforcement officers for the provisions of the Development Code.
(1) City Manager
(2) Assistant City Manager
(3) Community Development Director
(4) City Planner
(5) City Building Official
(6) City Engineer
(7) City Code Enforcement Officer
(8) City Fire Marshall
(b) No person shall stop, impede, or interfere with any officer, employee, contractor or authorized representative of the City or with any person who owns or holds any estate or interest in any land which is subject to a review, study, or compliance inspection process under the provisions of this Code, or with any person to whom such land has been lawfully sold, whenever such officer, employee, contractor, or authorized representative of the City, or person having an interest or estate in such land or purchases, is engaged in the work of conducting a review, study, or compliance inspection process on any such land pursuant to the provisions of this Code or in performing any necessary act preliminary to or incidental to such work as authorized or directed pursuant to this Code.
(c) Any person, firm, company, corporation or other entity violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon arrest and conviction, shall be punished by a fine not greater than $500 and imprisonment for no more than 90 days, or both.
(d) Whenever the City of Yucaipa institutes a judicial action or proceeding to enforce the land use district regulations of the Development Code, a City enforcement officer may file a Notice of Pendency of the action or proceeding with the County Recorder. The Notice shall be filed at the time of the commencement of the action or proceeding, and upon recordation of such notice as provided in this subsection, shall have the same effect as a notice recorded pursuant to Section 409 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California.
(1) The County Recorder shall record and index the Notice of Pendency of action or proceeding in the Grantor/Grantee Index.
(2) Any Notice of Pendency of action or proceeding filed pursuant to this subsection may, upon motion of a party to the action or proceeding, be vacated upon an appropriate showing of need therefore by an order of a judge of the court in which the action or proceeding is pending. A certified copy of the Order to Vacate may be recorded with the County Recorder, and upon such recordation, the Notice of Pendency of the action or proceeding shall not constitute constructive notice of any of the matters contained therein nor create any duty of inquiry in any person thereafter dealing with the property described therein. Such an Order to Vacate shall not be appealable, but the party aggrieved by such order may, within 20 days after service of written notice of the order, or within such additional time not exceeding 20 days as the court may, within the original 20 days allow, but in no event later than 60 days after entry of the order, petition the proper reviewing court to review such order by Writ of Mandate.
No such Order to Vacate shall be effective, nor shall it be recorded with the County Recorder, until the time within which a petition for the filing of a Writ of Mandate has expired, pursuant to this subsection. (Amended by Ord. 210 § 3, 2001)