A. A certificate of compliance shall be issued upon request of a property owner, or a vendee of such owner pursuant to a contract of sale of such real property, for property which has been divided in compliance with any existing provisions of law regulating such divisions or at a time when no such regulations were applicable, and which presently constitutes a lawfully existing lot or lots, for the purpose of establishing recorded evidence that the lot or lots are lawfully existing.

B. Upon determining that such property complies with the Subdivision Map Act and the provisions of this title, the town shall cause a certificate of compliance to be filed for record with the San Mateo County recorder.

C. A certificate of compliance may be issued subject to the provisions set forth in this chapter for a lot not created in compliance with any existing provisions of law regulating such divisions, in order to establish such a lot as lawfully existing. (Ord. 441 § 1 (part), 1988)