Article II — Fees

Any person desiring to connect to a public sewer shall, as a prerequisite to obtaining the permits required by this chapter, pay all fees or charges which may be required by the City of Palmdale. (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

Whenever the fees required by this chapter are based on valuations, the City shall determine the estimated valuation in all cases, and for such purposes the City shall be guided by approved estimating practices.

(Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

• (A) No permit shall be issued for connection to the public sewer until there has been paid to the City a sewer capacity fee as established by the City Council and set forth in the City's fee schedule. At the time of submission of application for permit for connection to the public sewer, an applicant shall pay such sewer capacity fee.

• (B) The sewer capacity fee for all uses shall be determined in accordance with a sewer capacity fee study adopted by the City Council.

• (C) Sewer capacity fees as defined by this chapter shall automatically adjust annually by the same percentage of change in the Consumer Price Index on March 1st of each year, for the All Urban Consumers, for the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County Area (CPI), as determined by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its successor. Should the Bureau of Labor Statistics revise such index, the Director of Finance shall use the revised index or a comparable system as approved by the City Council for determining fluctuations in the cost of living. The sewer capacity fees may also be recalculated at new sewer capacity fee unit costs established from time to time by the City Council to keep pace with changing cost of construction.

• (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009; Ord. 1400 § 2, 2010)

• (A) Any person seeking to connect a house lateral or industrial connection sewer to a public sewer at a point where no connection has been provided shall apply and obtain a City sewer permit and pay the tap fee established by the City Council before the City will schedule the new tap to be constructed.

• (B) Tapping of the public sewer as required on sewer plans approved by the City shall be coordinated and installation contracted by the City upon payment of all fees.

• (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

• (A) If any property is in a sewer reimbursement district, no permit shall be issued for the connection of such property to a public sewer until, in addition to any other fees required

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City of Palmdale, CA § 13.08.160

PALMDALE CODE

§ 13.08.200

by this chapter, all area charges and frontage charges required by this section have been paid.

• (B) An area charge computed by the area rates established for the reimbursement district shall be collected, whether or not additional public sewer is being constructed to serve the property. If the property is in more than one reimbursement district, an area charge shall be collected for each district.

• (C) Additionally, if a reimbursement agreement pursuant to Chapter 16.165 PMC provides for frontage reimbursement, any lot located in the frontage reimbursement area and seeking direct house connection to any public sewer shall pay a reimbursement district connection charge in the amount specified in subsection (D) of this section.

• (D) The reimbursement district connection charge shall be computed at the rate as established from time to time by the City Council in the fee resolution or as designated in the reimbursement agreement affecting the property. If a reimbursement district connection charge is collected as provided in this section, then the connection charge required by PMC § 13.08.140 shall not be collected.

• (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

The applicant shall pay a fee as established from time to time by resolution of the Council to tap the public sewer and reimburse the City for all costs and expenses to coordinate, inspect and install the tap on behalf of the applicant or permittee.

(Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

A manhole inspection fee shall be as established from time to time by resolution of the City Council. These fees shall cover the costs of engineering, field inspection, and all overhead and indirect costs.

• (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

Any person who desires to place a newly constructed public sewer system in operation and connect such sewer system to that operated by the City of Palmdale, and the property to be so benefited is not within the City limits of the City of Palmdale, then they shall pay a charge as determined from time to time by the City Council to cover all costs incurred to accomplish a withdrawal from the consolidated sewer maintenance district and inclusion within the City of Palmdale sanitary sewer service area, including the necessary State of California processing fee. (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

• (A) Any person who desires to connect a new house or industrial connection to a mainline sewer, or to place a newly constructed public sewer system in operation prior to the availability of sewer maintenance revenue from the property to be served by such sewer system, shall pay a sewer collection service charge in an amount determined by the City to cover such cost of maintaining such system from the time the sewer is placed in operation

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City of Palmdale, CA

SANITARY SEWERS AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE

§ 13.08.200

§ 13.08.230

until the property so benefited is included on the next available property tax rolls and revenue becomes available.

• (B) Such charge shall be computed by multiplying the sewage unit charge, as annually determined by the City Council from time to time, times the number of sewage units to be discharging from the subject property as determined in Chapter 13.05 PMC.

• (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

Any person desiring to connect to the public sewer system shall be required to pay a fee established from time to time by the City Council to reimburse the City for the costs to add all sewer collection system elements including pump stations and miscellaneous appurtenances data and information to the City GIS system, including mapping and data such as pipe materials, slope, size, etc., as required by the City.

(Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to any property previously connected to a public sewer, the discharge from which is later proposed to be increased or is found to have been increased substantially beyond the proportionate share of public sewer capacity allotted to the property by the sewer permit. Any previously connected property discharging more than that permitted may be charged an additional sewer capacity fee and a charge to cover the cost of maintenance at the then-current fee or rate or any other fees and charges applicable to the substantial increase in public sewer capacity.

(Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009; Ord. 1400 § 3, 2010)

• (A) In the event that any person shall have paid a fee as required under this chapter and no work or processing has been done on these functions by the City and the project has been formally abandoned or cancelled, such person, upon presentation to the City of a request in writing, shall be entitled to a refund in an amount equal to not more than 75 percent of the fee actually paid.

• (B) In the event that the City has commenced any plan checking or other work for which a fee was paid, or the contractor has commenced work on the construction, no portion of the fee shall be refunded.

• (C) Refund requests must be submitted within a one-year period after the date the fee was paid.

• (D) The City shall satisfy itself as to the right of such person to a refund, and each refund shall be paid as provided by law for the payment of claims against the City.

• (Ord. 1376 § 4 (Exh. A), 2009)

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City of Palmdale, CA

SANITARY SEWERS AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE

§ 13.08.240

§ 13.08.270