Whenever the county assessor or the head of any city department
finds that the provisions of this title or of the Subdivision Map
Act have been violated, he or she shall report such violation to the
city engineer, building inspector and planning director. It shall
be the duty of the planning director to investigate such report and
enforce the provisions of this title and the Subdivision Map Act.
When a map is filed with the city engineer pursuant only to
the requirements of Chapter 15, Division 3 of the Business and Professions
Code, the city engineer shall immediately submit to the planning director
a print of such map. The planning director shall determine if such
map constitutes or creates a subdivision. If it does not constitute
or create a subdivision or if it does constitute a subdivision which
conforms to a final division plat or approved adjustment plat or parcel
map, the planning director shall so inform the city engineer. If the
final map or parcel map or a final division plat or approved adjustment
plat on file in the office of the county recorder, the planning director
shall give written notice to the engineer or surveyor filing such
map, that any sale, lease or transfer of property conforming to the
parcel or parcels shown thereon will constitute a violation of this
title. The city engineer shall not file such map until notice by the
planning director that the provisions of this title have been complied
with, or in the absence of such notification, until the last day required
by law for filing.
Whenever the planning director has knowledge that real property
has been divided, or has resulted from a division, in violation of
the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act or city or San Diego County
ordinances enacted pursuant thereto, applicable at the time such violation
occurred, he or she shall cause to be filed for record with the county
recorder a notice of violation. Such notice of violation, when recorded,
shall be deemed to be constructive notice of the violation to all
successors in interest in such real property.