El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 2.68 Miscellaneous Administrative Regulations

A. On all days of the calendar year, the business offices of the city shall be open to the public for the transaction of city business between the hours of seven a.m. and five-thirty p.m. Monday-Thursday, except on the following days:

1. Every Saturday;

2. Every Sunday;

3. New Year's Day;

4. Washington's Birthday;

5. Memorial Day;

6. Independence Day;

7. Labor Day;

8. Veteran's Day;

9. Thanksgiving Day;

10. Christmas Day;

11. Every day appointed by proclamation of the President or Governor for a public fast, thanksgiving, or holiday;

12. Half day before Christmas Day (12:00—5:30);

13. Half day before New Year's Day (12:00—5:30).

B. If any of the days specified in subsections (A)(3)—(11) of this section falls upon a Sunday, the public offices of the city shall be closed on the Monday following that day. If any of the days specified in subsections (A)(3)—(11) of this section falls upon a Saturday, the public offices of the city shall be closed on the Friday preceding that day.

(Prior code §§ 2731, 2732)

The City Council may authorize the Office of the City Clerk, and other departments of the City, to assess and collect a reasonable fee or charge for the production, copying or transmittal of any public record or document as may be requested by an interested person pursuant to the Public Records Act or other applicable law, including without limitation Government Code Section 54954.1. The City Council may authorize such reasonable fees and charges from time to time by resolution upon the conclusion of a duly noticed public hearing thereon. The City Council may authorize certain exemptions from such fees and charges, as appropriate.

(Prior code § 2734)

The City Council finds that it is appropriate to authorize the El Monte Police Department so impose certain fees and charges associated with the discharge of certain custodial duties and services of the Police Department, including without limitation the assembly and production of various reports and public records. Such fees and charges shall be established or changed from time to time in accordance with this chapter.

(Prior code § 3960.0)

A. Upon receipt of a written report and recommendation from the Chief of Police, the City Council may authorize and approve (or amend from time-to-time) a service fee payable upon the release of any vehicle impounded or otherwise in the custody or control of the El Monte Police Department. The fee shall be based upon the reasonable cost to the city associated with the impoundment of the vehicle, including without limitation clerical and overhead costs of the Police Department as associated with the preparation of papers and documents as necessary to accomplish the release of the vehicle. The fee or charge as authorized by this section shall be payable upon the release of the vehicle. Certain persons shall be exempt from the payment of the fee or charge as authorized by this section: (1) victims of the theft of the vehicle as impounded or in the custody of the El Monte Police Department; and (2) such other persons who make a satisfactory showing of good cause for waiver of the fee or charge in accordance with written guidelines as approved by the Chief of Police.

B. Any such fee or charge (or change in an existing or previously authorized fee) shall be approved by resolution of the City Council upon the conclusion of a public hearing for which notice has been published in accordance with Government Code Section 6062a.

C. The resolution of the City Council may provide administrative procedures for the collection of the fee or charge as may be appropriate. In the event that an action may hereafter be initiated by the city to collect any sum which may be owed to the city under a fee or charge approved under this section, then in such a case the judgment in such fee collection action may include reasonable attorneys' fees of the city.

D. There is established a special service fee fund of the city identified as "El Monte Police Department Impounded Vehicle cost Recovery Fee Fund," and all sums which may hereafter be collected by the El Monte Police Department and/or the city under this section shall be deposited into such funds.

(Prior code § 3960.1)