This chapter establishes the responsibilities of various departments, officials, and public employees of the City to enforce the requirements of this Title and sets forth the procedures the City will use to identify, abate, remove, and enjoin those uses or structures that are deemed to be in violation of this Title.
(Ord. 20-03 § 6)
All departments, officials, and public employees of the City, vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses, must conform to the provisions of this Title, and may issue no permit or license for uses, buildings, or purposes in conflict with the provisions of this Title, and any such permit or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this Title will be null and void. All other officers not specified in this section must enforce the provisions related to their areas of responsibilities, when necessary. The following officials, departments, and employees have specific responsibilities as follows:
A. 
Director. The Director will enforce all provisions of this Title related to issuance of discretionary approvals and will have responsibility for ordering the correction of violations and initiating the revocation of discretionary approvals pursuant to Section 17.52.110, Common Procedures—Revocation of Approval, and the abatement of nuisances as defined in this Title.
B. 
Building Official. Prior to issuance of building permits, the Building Official must ascertain that plans presented with the building permit application conform to those approved subject to the requirements of this Title.
C. 
Code Compliance Officer. The Code Compliance Officer must enforce all provisions of this Title pertaining to the use, erection, construction, reconstruction, relocation, conversion, alteration, or addition to any structure, signage, conditions of approval, use permits, variances, nuisance abatements, or other discretionary approvals. The Code Compliance Officer is hereby authorized to cause to be stopped any work or use undertaken without or contrary to approval granted pursuant to this Title, or in violation of any of its other provisions.
D. 
City Attorney. The City Attorney may, at the City Attorney’s discretion, or upon order of the City Council, immediately commence action or proceedings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment of violations in the manner provided by law, and may take such other steps and may apply to such courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief that will abate and remove such use or structure, and may seek to restrain and enjoin any person, firm, or corporation from such use of any property or structure, or from setting up, erecting, building, maintaining, or demolishing any such structure contrary to the provisions of this Title.
(Ord. 20-03 § 6; Ord. 23-05 § 4)
Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, owner, agent, tenant, employee, or otherwise, who violates any provisions of this Title, is subject to an administrative fine pursuant to Goleta Municipal Code, Chapter 1.02.
(Ord. 20-03 § 6)
All remedies provided for herein will be cumulative and not exclusive. The conviction and punishment of any person hereunder will not relieve such person from the responsibility to correct prohibited conditions or to remove prohibited buildings, structures, or improvements nor prevent the enforcement, correction, or removal thereof. In addition to the other remedies provided in this Title, the City Council, the City Attorney, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be especially damaged by the violation of any provision of this Title, may institute, in addition to the other remedies provided by law, injunction, mandamus, abatement, or any other appropriate action, proceeding or proceedings to prevent or abate or remove such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance, or use.
(Ord. 20-03 § 6; Ord. 22-06 § 4)
A. 
If compliance is not had with an order of the Code Compliance Officer or designee, to correct violations of this Title within the time specified in a Notice of Violation, the City may file with the Santa Barbara County Recorder a certified statement describing the property and certifying that:
1. 
The property and/or structure is in violation of this Title; and
2. 
The owner has been so notified.
B. 
The notice must specifically describe the violations and a proof of service must also be recorded with the Notice of Violation.
C. 
Whenever the corrections ordered thereafter have been completed, the City must file a new certified statement with the Santa Barbara County Recorder, certifying that all required corrections have been made so that the property and/or structure is no longer in violation of this Title.
(Ord. 20-03 § 6)