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 Simi Valley
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
 Chapter 8. CIVIL FINES

  § 1-8.103. Definitions.  

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  • The following definitions apply to the use of these terms for the purposes of this chapter:

    (a)

    "Code violation" shall mean any violation of the Simi Valley Municipal Code.

    (b)

    "Director of Community Services" or "Director" shall mean the Director of City of Simi Valley Community Services Department or his/her designated representative.

    (c)

    "Hearing administrator" shall mean the City Manager or the person appointed by the City Manager as his or her designee to serve as the hearing officer for administrative hearings.

    (d)

    "Issued" shall mean giving, mailing or posting a Notice and Order to a person and issuance occurs on the date when a Notice and Order is personally served on a person, the date it is mailed to a person, or the date it is posted on real property where a property-related violation occurs.

    (e)

    "Notice and Order" shall mean an official Code violation notice issued to a person(s) notifying them that they continue to be in violation of the Simi Valley Municipal Code, that the Code violation has not been corrected within the applicable correction period, and if not corrected by a specified date, a civil fine is imposed.

    (f)

    "Person" shall mean any of the following:

    (1)

    An individual who causes a Code violation to occur;

    (2)

    An individual who maintains or allows a Code violation to continue, by his or her action or failure to act;

    (3)

    An individual whose agent, employee or independent contractor causes a Code violation by its action or failure to act;

    (4)

    An individual who is the owner of, and an individual who is a lessee or sublessee with the current right of possession of, real property where a property-related Code violation occurs;

    (5)

    An individual who is the on-site manager of a business who normally works at the site when the business is open and is responsible for the activities at such premises.

    For purposes of this subdivision, "person" includes a natural person or legal entity, and the owners, majority stockholders, corporate officers, trustees and general partners of a legal entity. There shall be a legal rebuttable presumption that the record owner of a parcel according to the County's latest equalized property tax assessment rolls and a lessee or sublessee of a parcel has notice of any Code violation existing on the premises.

(§ 3 (part), Ord. 940, eff. December 24, 1998, as amended by § 2, Ord. 1095, eff. July 19, 2006)