A. Fees; General: The fees established in this article and subsequent amendments shall be set annually by council in the resolution of the council of the city of Beverly Hills amending comprehensive schedule of municipal fees and charges. All fees established in this article shall be applicable to all sewer connections within the city, except that, those portions of the city within the Los Angeles County sanitation district no. 4 shall not be subject to any of the fees set forth in the foregoing sections where a fee for similar service is imposed by the Los Angeles County sanitation district no. 4.
B. Industrial Waste Permit Fees: Each applicant for an industrial waste permit shall pay a fee, at the time of application, that shall be separate and apart from any fee or deposit collected for industrial waste plan review or imposed under any other provisions of this article, or other city ordinance or regulation or by reason of any license, agreement or contract between the applicant and other public agency. Such application fee shall not be refundable even though the application is denied.
C. Industrial Waste Plan Review Fee: A plan review fee shall be paid to the city, at the time of submittal, for each set of plans received for any single site or location. Such fee shall be separate and apart from any fee or deposit collected for any permit or inspection or imposed by any other city ordinance or regulation. Such plan review fee shall be applied to any submittal required by the public works administrator and shall not be refundable even though the submittal may be rejected or project terminated.
1. The public works administrator may impose a reinstatement fee of one-half (½) of the plan review fee if the applicant fails to correct any plans or submittal upon written notice of correction or request for additional information by the public works administrator after three (3) attempts have been made to gain such correction.
D. Annual Inspection Fee: Every person granted an industrial waste permit under this article shall pay a fee to the city for inspection and control and such fee shall be fixed and established from time to time by the city council.
1. Immediately upon issuance of a new permit, the permittee shall be billed a percentage of the inspection fee, determined by the days remaining in the billing period, as scheduled below:
Days Remaining
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Fee Percentage
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1 - | 60 | 0% |
61 - | 120 | 25% |
121 - | 210 | 50% |
211 - | 300 | 75% |
301 - | 365 | 100% |
E. Inspection Classifications: The public works administrator may establish a classification system based on the minimum number of inspections per year which the public works administrator determines to be necessary for the property enforcement of this article and subsequent amendments.
F. Due Dates: The annual inspection fee shall be paid annually in advance of one of four (4) dates as follows:
Due Date Of Annual Fee
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If the permit is granted between: | |
January 1 and March 31, inclusive | April 1 |
April 1 and June 30, inclusive | July 1 |
July 1 and September 30, inclusive | October 1 |
October 1 and December 31, inclusive | January 1 |
G. Wastewater Sampling And Analysis Fee: The public works administrator may charge the discharger a fee for each analysis performed by or on behalf of the city on wastewater samples taken from the discharger. Said fee shall be set by city council and reflect the city's cost for sampling. The sampling and analysis fee shall be paid by the discharger within thirty (30) days of the statement date.
H. Quality Surcharge Fee: The city council may establish a charge for each pound of suspended solids and for each pound of biochemical oxygen demand. Every person granted an industrial waste permit under this article shall pay an annual quality surcharge fee for wastes discharged into the sanitary sewer system pursuant to the following formula:
C = V [a(SS - 250) + b(BOD - 230)] k
Where:
C is the quality surcharge fee.
V is the chargeable volume of waste discharged in gallons, based in: 1) the volume of water supplied to the premises less an amount determined by the public works administrator to account for water not discharged into the sanitary sewer system, or 2) the metered volume of waste discharged into the sanitary sewer system according to a measuring device approved by the public works administrator, or 3) a figure determined by the public works administrator based on any other equitable method.
SS is the suspended solids in the waste discharged, expressed in milligrams per liter.
BOD is the five (5) day biochemical oxygen demand of the waste discharged, expressed in milligrams per liter.
a is the cost assessed for each pound of suspended solids, and such cost shall be fixed and established from time to time by the city council.
b is the cost assessed for each pound of biochemical oxygen demand, and such cost shall be fixed and established from time to time by the city council.
k is a dimensional constant to convert C to dollars.
If the term containing SS or BOD is negative, a value of zero shall be used for that term.
SS and BOD analyses shall be made in accordance with "standard methods". In determining the quality surcharge fee, the public works administrator may use industrial averages for SS and BOD values. The public works administrator may group permit holders into discharge volume ranges where volume measurement at the premises of a permit holder is impractical for physical, economic or other reasons, these volume ranges may be used in establishing the quality surcharge fee.
I. Appeal From Quality Surcharge Fee: Any permit holder whose quality surcharge fee has been determined in the manner provided may appeal the fee amount by submission of engineering data to the public works administrator. If the public works administrator finds the discharge of the permit holder differs significantly from the volume range which was applied, he may adjust the fee.
J. Due Date For Quality Surcharge Fee: The quality surcharge fee will be separate charge to be included in the bimonthly water/wastewater utility billing and due in full on the day the notice is received. Water/wastewater utility bills not paid within fifteen (15) days of receipt are delinquent.
K. Penalty For Delinquency: All fees required by this article shall be due and payable on the billing date established by director of finance administration. Fees not paid within thirty (30) calendar days from the billing date shall be subject to a ten percent (10%) penalty fee for each thirty (30) day period beyond the billing date that the fee is due. Permits for which the inspection fee is delinquent for ninety (90) days or more are subject to suspension. (1962 Code §§ 5-6.01 et seq., 6-1.301 - 6-1.304)