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13.06 — SEWER USER FEE

Palos Verdes Estates Municipal Code · 2026-07 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · Palos Verdes Estates

§ 13.06.010. Purpose.

This chapter establishes a sewer user fee for all parcels of real property in the city connected to the sanitary sewer system. The city provides sewer service within its boundaries. The amount of money from ad valorem taxes available to the city is inadequate to fund the cost of maintenance and repair of those sanitary sewers, but such work must be performed to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. The purpose of this chapter is to provide financing for the ongoing maintenance and repair of the city’s sanitary sewer system.

(Ord. 649 § 2, 2003; Ord. 701 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2012)

§ 13.06.020. Methodology for rate determination.

The sewer user fee for any property in any one fiscal year shall be determined by multiplying the total number of sewer units anticipated to be generated by that property in that fiscal year by the effective sewer user fee rate for that fiscal year. These factors shall be determined as follows:

  • A. The total number of sewer units anticipated to be generated by a property for a fiscal year shall be deemed to be equal to the amount of water consumed on that property in the previous calendar year, minimizing to the extent feasible the amount of water used for landscaping. To determine that amount, the three months in the previous calendar year which had the lowest water usage in the city as a whole shall be determined. The total number of sewer units anticipated to be generated by a particular property shall be calculated by averaging the amount of water used at that property during such three-month period and multiplying that average by twelve.

  • B. The effective sewer user fee rate in any fiscal year shall be determined by dividing the annual sewer program budget for that fiscal year by the total number of sewer units in the entire city for the previous calendar year (determined by averaging the amount of water used in the entire city during the three months in that calendar year which had the lowest water usage, and multiplying that average by twelve). The annual sewer program budget shall be calculated by adding (1) the amount budgeted by the city council in that fiscal year for repair and maintenance of the sewerage system and (2) the cost of engineering administration of the fee, and subtracting from said sum the amount of any interest earned on any amounts in the sewer fund balance.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum allowable sewer user fee rate shall not exceed the rate cap established by this paragraph. The rate cap shall be one dollar two cents per sewer unit for fiscal year 2003-2004. Thereafter, the rate cap shall be increased annually by any increase in the Engineering News Record Construction Cost Index for the Los Angeles area, as determined in February of each year. The rate cap shall increase in accord with the Construction Cost Index regardless of whether or not the sewer user fee rate imposed in any one year reaches the rate cap established for that year. (Ord. 649 § 2, 2003; Ord. 701 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2012)

§ 13.06.030. Collection of charges.

The sewer user fee shall be collected for each fiscal year on the county of Los Angeles tax roll in the same manner, by the same persons, and at the same time as, together with and not separately

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City of Palos Verdes Estates, CA § 13.06.030

PALOS VERDES ESTATES CODE

§ 13.06.050

from, the general taxes of the city. For any fiscal year that the sewer user fee is not collected on the tax roll, the city may collect all or a portion of the sewer user fee for such year on the tax roll in the following fiscal year or years.

  • (Ord. 649 § 2, 2003; Ord. 701 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2012)

§ 13.06.040. Expiration of sewer user fee.

The sewer user fee authorized by this chapter shall be effective from fiscal year 2003-2004 through fiscal year 2012-2013. Unless extended in accord with the then required provisions of law, the sewer user fee shall expire and be of no further force or effect as of July 1, 2013. (Ord. 649 § 2, 2003; Ord. 701 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2012)

§ 13.06.050. Fee adjustment.

  • A. At any time but no more frequently than once per year, the city council may review the status of compliance with this chapter and the degree to which the sewer user fees collected pursuant to this chapter are adequately financing the maintenance and repair of the city’s sanitary sewer system. By ordinance, and after a noticed public hearing, the sewer user fee may be increased or decreased to reflect changes in the actual and estimated revenues and costs (including, without limitation, debt service, lease payments, inflation, identification of other funding sources, and acquisition and construction costs) of sewer maintenance as compared to the previous estimate.

  • B. Upon adoption by the city council of any ordinance which proposes to increase the sewer user fee, the city clerk shall provide notice to all owners of parcels subject to the proposed increase. Such notice shall include a copy of the ordinance, a majority protest voting ballot, and a statement that a majority protest will prevent the enactment of the fee adjustment. At a noticed public hearing, the city council shall consider all protests and shall not enact the fee adjustment if a majority of city voters affected by the proposed adjustment submit ballots opposing the proposed adjustment.

  • (Ord. 701 § 2 (Exh. 1), 2012)

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City of Palos Verdes Estates, CA

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§ 13.08.005

§ 13.08.010

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Palos Verdes Estates Municipal Code
  1. Title 1
  2. Title 2
  3. Chapter 2.12 — POLICE DEPARTMENT
  4. Chapter 2.08 — CITY MANAGER
  5. Chapter 2.10 — FINANCE DIRECTOR
  6. Chapter 2.12 — POLICE DEPARTMENT
  7. Chapter 2.16 — POLICE DEPARTMENT RESERVE CORPS
  8. Chapter 2.24 — COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES
  9. Chapter 2.28 — EMERGENCY SERVICES
  10. Chapter 2.32 — UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
  11. Chapter 2.36 — PERSONNEL AND EMPLOYMENT
  12. Chapter 2.38 — POST-EMPLOYMENT LOBBYING
  13. Title 3
  14. Chapter 3.00 — SPECIAL REAL PROPERTY TAX
  15. Chapter 3.04 — ASSESSMENT AND TAX COLLECTION
  16. Chapter 3.08 — SALES AND USE TAX
  17. Chapter 3.24 — PURCHASING SYSTEM
  18. Chapter 3.28 — TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT FUND
  19. Chapter 3.32 — CHARGE FOR SPECIAL POLICE SERVICES
  20. Chapter 3.36 — LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES SPECIAL TAX
  21. Title 5
  22. Chapter 5.04 — FORTUNETELLING AND RELATED PRACTICES
  23. Chapter 5.08 — PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
  24. Chapter 5.16 — BUSINESS LICENSE TAX
  25. Chapter 5.20 — COMMERCIAL FILM PERMIT
  26. Chapter 5.25 — REAL PROPERTY RECORDS REPORT
  27. Title 6
  28. Chapter 6.04 — ANIMAL CONTROL GENERALLY
  29. Chapter 6.08 — REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO DOGS
  30. Chapter 6.12 — POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS AND VICIOUS DOGS
  31. Chapter 6.16 — VACCINATION
  32. Title 8
  33. Chapter 8.32
  34. Chapter 8.04 — HEALTH CODE
  35. Chapter 8.14
  36. Chapter 8.16 — GARBAGE AND RUBBISH
  37. Chapter 8.18 — SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
  38. Chapter 8.24 — HANG GLIDERS AND MODEL AIRCRAFT
  39. Chapter 8.32 — OUTDOOR BUSINESS LIGHTING
  40. Chapter 8.36 — SUBSTANDARD PREMISES
  41. Chapter 8.40
  42. Chapter 8.44 — WELLS AND MINES
  43. Chapter 8.52 — MOBILE SOURCE AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION
  44. Chapter 8.56 — SMOKING PROHIBITED
  45. Chapter 8.60 — FIREWORKS
  46. Title 9
  47. Chapter 9.04 — OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY
  48. Chapter 9.05 — PICKETING
  49. Chapter 9.08 — CURFEW
  50. Chapter 9.12 — WEAPONS
  51. Chapter 9.16 — USE OF BEACHES
  52. Chapter 9.18 — SOCIAL HOST LIABILITY FOR PARTIES AT WHICH UNDE…
  53. Chapter 9.20
  54. Title 10
  55. Chapter 10.02 — PENALTIES
  56. Chapter 10.08 — TRAFFIC ADMINISTRATION
  57. Chapter 10.12
  58. Chapter 10.16 — TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES
  59. Chapter 10.20 — ONE-WAY STREETS AND ALLEYS
  60. Chapter 10.24 — SPECIAL STOPS
  61. Chapter 10.28 — MISCELLANEOUS DRIVING RULES
  62. Chapter 10.32
  63. Chapter 10.36 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING – VENDING
  64. Chapter 10.40
  65. Chapter 10.44 — STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING – TIMES
  66. Chapter 10.48 — STOPPING FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING ONLY
  67. Chapter 10.52
  68. Chapter 10.60 — CONGESTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
  69. Title 12
  70. Chapter 12.04 — ENCROACHMENTS
  71. Chapter 12.12 — EXCAVATIONS
  72. Chapter 12.16 — STREET TREES
  73. Chapter 12.20 — STREET AND SIDEWALK USE RESTRICTIONS
  74. Chapter 12.24 — PARKS
  75. Chapter 12.32
  76. ▸Title 13
    Overview
    1. 13.04 — SEWERS
    2. 13.06 — SEWER USER FEE
  77. Chapter 13.08 — STORM DRAINS AND STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND POL…
  78. Chapter 13.12 — UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICTS
  79. Chapter 13.14 — SANITARY SEWERS AND INDUSTRIAL WASTE
  80. Title 15
  81. Chapter 15.04
  82. Chapter 15.08 — ADMINISTRATION
  83. Chapter 15.12
  84. Chapter 15.20
  85. Chapter 15.50 — FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
  86. Title 16
  87. Chapter 16.04 — GENERAL PROVISIONS
  88. Chapter 16.16 — DESIGN STANDARDS
  89. Chapter 16.16 — DESIGN STANDARDS
  90. Title 17
  91. Chapter 17.04 — GENERAL PROVISIONS
  92. Chapter 17.10 — ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
  93. Chapter 17.20 — CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS
  94. Chapter 17.22 — SITE PLAN PERMITS
  95. Chapter 17.36 — STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
  96. Chapter 17.40
  97. Chapter 17.44 — REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
  98. Title 18
  99. Chapter 18.55 — WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
  100. Chapter 18.32 — WALLS AND FENCES
  101. Chapter 18.36 — NEIGHBORHOOD COMPATIBILITY
  102. Chapter 18.37
  103. Chapter 18.39
  104. Chapter 18.40 — MIXED-USE OVERLAY (MU-O) ZONE
  105. Chapter 18.42 — HOME OCCUPATION
  106. Chapter 18.45 — ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS
  107. Chapter 18.50 — WATER EFFICIENT LANDSCAPING
  108. Chapter 18.60 — NONCOMMERCIAL ANTENNAS
  109. Chapter 18.64 — MOBILEHOME PARKS
  110. Chapter 18.72 — SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
  111. Chapter 18.73 — REGULATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  112. Title 19
  113. Chapter 19.01 — DEFINITIONS
  114. Chapter 19.02
  115. Title OL

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