Chapter 13.10
FEES AND CHARGES
Sections:
13.10.010 Issuance Fee—Required.
13.10.020 Issuance Fee—Established by Council.
13.10.040 Issuance Fee—Agencies Exempt from Payment.
13.10.050 Issuance Fee—Exemption for Public Works.
13.10.070 Engineering and Inspection Charges for Curb, Gutter, Sidewalk and Highway Surface.
13.10.100 Costs Related to Permit—Permittee Liability.
13.10.150 Highway Surface Repairs—Computation of Costs.
13.10.010 Issuance Fee—Required.
All persons, except as otherwise specified in this Division 1, shall pay an issuance fee and all other costs and charges as established for the work covered in this Division 1. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.020 Issuance Fee—Established by Council.
The issuance fee shall be established by order of the Council. The fee shall not exceed the amount determined by the Council to be sufficient to defray the cost of handling. In the absence of any such order, the issuance fee shall be $25.00. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.040 Issuance Fee—Agencies Exempt from Payment.
The following shall be exempt from paying the issuance fee: the United States, the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, any department of this City, any school district, and any special district organized under state law. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.050 Issuance Fee—Exemption for Public Works.
The Director may grant a permit without issuance fee if the Director finds that the work to be done has been requested by the City in connection with proposed public works. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.070 Engineering and Inspection Charges for Curb, Gutter, Sidewalk and Highway Surface.
The Director shall not charge for any engineering or inspection on permits for the construction of curbs, gutters, walks and highway surfaces except when the construction of curbs, gutters, walks and highway surfaces is in connection with subdivision activity or is directly for private interests where the public is not benefitted. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.100 Costs Related to Permit—Permittee Liability.
The permittee is liable for and shall pay for all the Director’s costs related to the permit, including but not restricted to the following:
A. The permit issuance fee if that has not otherwise been paid;
B. Engineering, which includes design, inspection, survey and tests;
C. The cost of any inspection, transportation, or test made;
D. The cost of repairing or restoring the highways and all appurtenant facilities to the same or equal condition that they were in before being cut or damaged as a result of the permittee’s activities;
E. The cost of furnishing, maintaining any lights, barricades or warning devices;
F. The cost of alteration, removal, replacement and/or repair to traffic signals and devices, the removal of temporary and/or permanent traffic stripes, and any other expense for traffic control;
G. The cost of removing or remedying any hazardous condition;
H. The cost of tree trimming;
I. Any other cost to the City caused by the permittee’s activity. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.150 Highway Surface Repairs—Computation of Costs.
A. The Director’s costs of repairing and restoring the highway surface may be charged to a permittee on the square-foot-thickness method or an actual-cost basis.
B. Under the square-foot-thickness method, the charge shall be computed as follows: The square feet of surface repaired, multiplied by the number of inches of depth plus one inch, multiplied by the rate set by order of the Council. In the absence of such an order, the rate shall be $.10 per square foot, and the cost in any case shall be presumed to be not less than $5.00. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)
13.10.160 Failure to Comply with Permit Conditions—Revocation of Privilege—Highway Restoration Requirements.
Whenever a permittee fails to comply with the conditions established for the exercise of a privilege granted under a permit, the Director may revoke the privilege. Upon such revocation, the permittee shall immediately restore the highway to the Director’s satisfaction. If the permittee fails to do so, the Director may restore the highway at the expense of the permittee or charge the permittee a fee of $200.00 a day for each day of failure to restore the highway. (Ord. 89-20, 8/8/89)