Palm Desert Municipal Code Ch. 27.32 Fees

Fees shall be in accordance with the current fee schedule as may be adopted from time to time by council resolution.

For excavation and fill on the same site, the fee shall be based on the volume of excavation or fill, whichever is greater. If it is determined that the volume of excavation or fill incident to the grading is greater than the volume on which the land alteration fee was initially computed, the applicant shall pay any additional fee based upon the recomputed volume of excavation or fill. The estimates shall be made or verified by the city engineer.

Fees required by this chapter shall be collected by the city finance officer.

No permit shall be issued and no land alteration shall be permitted until the applicable fees have been received by the city finance officer.

(Ord. 126 § 1, 1976, Exhibit A § 27.6-1; Ord. 294, 1982)

A. The state or any of its political subdivisions or any governmental agency shall file applications for permits and shall be issued permits as required by this title. No fees shall be required when the work is done by persons working directly for the state or agency.

B. A contractor working for the state, or any of its political subdivisions or any governmental agency, shall obtain a permit and pay the permit fee.

(Ord. 126 § 1, 1976, Exhibit A §§ 27.6-1.01—27.6-1.02; Ord. 294, 1982)

In the event a permit fee refund is requested by a permittee and the city engineer has determined that it is in the public interest to allow the permittee to abandon the work, he shall cancel the permit and refund fees only in accordance with the following schedule:

Ninety percent of the fee for a land alteration permit shall be refundable if no inspections have been done by the city and the work is abandoned.

(Ord. 126 § 1, 1976, Exhibit A § 27.6-2; Ord. 294, 1982; Ord. 514 § 2, 1987)

In the event that land alteration work is commenced without benefit of a land alteration permit, the city engineer shall cause such work to be stopped until a permit is obtained. The permit fee in such instance shall be double that which would normally be required. The payment of such double fee shall not relieve any person from fully complying with the requirements of this title in the performance of the work. Such fee shall not be construed to be a penalty, but shall be construed as an added fee required to defray the expense of enforcement of the provisions of this title in such cases. The imposition or payment of such double fee shall not prevent the imposition of any penalty prescribed or imposed by this title.

(Ord. 126 § 1, 1976, Exhibit A § 27.6-3; Ord. 294, 1982)