§ 8-31. Approval required for certain existing conditions.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any owner of land in an erosion impact area to willfully permit erosion and sedimentation of his land to cause reasonably avoidable damage or harm to adjacent or downstream property, roads, streams, lakes or ponds.

(b)

When the environmental engineer determines that erosion and sedimentation is occurring in an erosion impact area, he shall give notice of the erosion and sedimentation to the land owner in writing at the address for the owner contained in the real estate assessor's records, and require the owner to obtain a land-disturbance permit for the purpose of engaging in land-disturbing activity to control the erosion and sedimentation. If the owner fails or refuses to obtain a land-disturbance permit within five days after the notice is mailed, or if the owner fails or refuses to install or maintain the erosion and sediment controls required by the approved erosion and sediment control plan after the land-disturbance permit is issued and within five days after the environmental engineer has given him written notice of such failure or refusal, the owner shall be in violation of this chapter. The environmental engineer may extend the five-day period if the owner demonstrates good cause for an extension.

(c)

In order to prevent further erosion, the department of environmental engineering may designate any land within the county as an erosion impact area.

(Ord. of 4-9-14(3), § 1)

(Ord. of 4-9-14(3), § 1)