Description | Amount | Notations |
Description | Amount | Notations |
Administrative citations and ordinance violations | ||
Administrative citations | $60 per citation | |
Ordinance violations under Public Works, Title V | Actual costs for repairing any damage to the city's system | Examples include: contaminating the municipal water supply, illegal connection to sanitary sewer or water mains, disposing of chemicals in the sewage collection system, and the like will be charged actual costs to repair the violation |
Turning on disconnected water after the city has discontinued service for non-payment | $100 per violation | |
Nuisance abatement pursuant to Title IX General Regulations | $50 per hour for mowing and snow removal | Minimum one-hour billed - each violation |
Administrative warrant to enter property to fix violations if necessary | Actual costs to obtain billed to violator | |
Abatement activities (cleaning up junk, securing vacant dwellings, removing diseased trees, abating nuisances, et al) | Actual costs billed to violator. Specially assessed to property if invoice remains unpaid. | |
Ordinance violations under Business Regulations, Title XI | Operating without a license is a misdemeanor citation | Officers have the option to issue a state ticket for a misdemeanor offense. |
Administrative citation is $100 per violation | With respect to licensed establishments, Council has the authority to suspend, impose a civil fine, or revoke a license for failed compliance with the ordinance | |
Ordinance violations under General Offenses, Title XIII | Officers have the option to also issue a state ticket for a misdemeanor offense | |
Ordinance violations under Land Use, Title XV | $200 per violation | If the violation remains, the city can continue to issue new citations until the violation is corrected |
Licenses | ||
Adult entertainment | $2,500 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Animals | ||
Dangerous dog certificate (M.S. § 347.51) | Actual costs | |
Kennel license | $50 | Per year |
Kennel license - commercial | $150 | Per year |
Licenses - life of the animal | $5 | |
License - duplicate | $5 | |
Chicken coop | $150 | Application fee and site review |
Cannabinoid | $150 | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Carnivals, circuses, tent shows | $25 per day | |
Garbage and refuse collection | $400 per year | |
Liquor | ||
Brew pub on-sale | $1,000 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Intoxicating liquor on-sale | $1,000 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Intoxicating liquor on-sale - Sundays | $100 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
3.2 malt liquor - on-sale | $100 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
3.2 malt liquor - off-sale | $100 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Special club | $500 per year | |
Temporary on-sale - 3.2 malt liquor | $75 per event | |
Temporary on-sale - liquor | $75 per event | |
Temporary on-sale - liquor per day | $75 per event | |
Wine and strong beer | $400 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Pawnbroker | $750 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Peddler or solicitor (for profit) | $25 per day | |
Peddler or solicitor (non-profit) | No charge | |
Tobacco | $100 per year | New licenses will also pay an investigation fee. Investigation fee is actual costs. |
Miscellaneous city services | ||
Copies - over 100 including police reports | $0.25 | Per page plus $25/hour labor costs |
Data practices request - search, copy information | $0.25 per page under 100 pages | Actual cost for DVDs, photographs, data stored electronically, over 100 copies. Actual costs include staff time to search, retrieve, and prepare the medium requested (e.g. DVD). |
Fax - in | $2 plus $1 per page | |
Fax - out | $4 plus $1 per page | |
Filing for office (affidavit of candidacy) | $2 | |
NSF Charge | $35 | |
Notary | $1 | Per document |
Rental of Council Chambers by non-profit groups | No charge | |
Room lease | $20 per week or $50 per month | |
Permits | ||
Right-of-way (requiring a street opening or excavation of a paved surface) | $100 per permit | $3,000 escrow per opening Must complete permit application form and submit with required documents |
Right-of-way - directional bore | No cost | Must complete permit application form and submit with required documents |
Building permits - see §§ 33.10 and 33.11 below | ||
Special event permit | $750 | For events with more than 1,000 people in attendance |
$50 damage deposit for resident | Additional fees that may apply to special event permits are: | |
$100 damage deposit for non-resident | $5 per sign (such as detour, no parking) $5 per traffic control device $20 per table to move in additional picnic tables from one park to another park $75 per hour per officer - 2 hour minimum | |
Police fees | ||
Civil stand by fees | $75 per hour | 2 hour minimum |
Copy of photo/police report | $5 | |
Copying video from squad or BWC | $40 per hour | |
Labor rate - OT. Includes squad use | Actual costs | Consistent with TZD rates |
Labor rate - overtime | Actual costs | Consistent with TZD rates |
Special use vehicle operators permit fee | $10 | Per vehicle |
Storage and impound fees | $25 per day | Outside storage |
$50 per day | Inside storage | |
Towing fees | Actual costs | |
Planning, zoning, economic development fees | ||
Assignment and assumption agreement | Costs | |
Conditional use, interim use permit, planned unit development, platting, rezoning, vacation of public right of way request or easement | $250 | $250 fee for preliminary plat and a separate $250 fee for final plat |
Developer’s agreement | Costs | Escrow of $5,000 is required |
Lot split or lot combination | $100 | A legal description for the lot combination or split must be provided by the property owner |
Park dedication fee | $750 per housing unit | $550 for parks and $200 for trails |
Preliminary financial assistance review | Actual costs incurred | |
TIF District or tax abatement applications and developments | Actual costs incurred | Escrow deposit of $10,000 is required |
Street Department/equipment | ||
Equipment - add actual man hours (MH) unless noted | Equipment rental only for mutual aid purposes | |
Air compressor - portable | $75 per day | |
Chain saw - 12" | $75 per day | |
Chain saw - 18" | $75 per day | |
Chop saw - 14" | $75 per day | |
Generator - portable | $150 per hour | |
Loader | $160 per hour | |
Mowing | $125 per hour | |
Pump - diaphragm | $75 per day | |
Sewer Jetter/Vac - 2 people per OSHA | $275 per hour | Includes MH |
Skid loader | $160 per hour | Includes MH |
Snow blower | $160 per hour | Includes MH |
Street sweeper | $160 per hour | Includes MH |
Traffic control | ||
Barricades | $5 per barricade | |
Cones | $5 per cone | |
Truck - bucket - 2 people | $250 per hour | Includes MH |
Truck - 3/4-ton | $160 per hour | Includes MH |
Truck - one-ton | $160 per hour | Includes MH |
Truck - tandem/dump | $190 per hour | Includes MH |
Truck - single axle | $160 per hour | Includes MH |
Water pump (4") | $120 per hour | |
Water and sewer rates | ||
Late fee | $10 or 10% | Whichever is higher |
Meter - fee | Actual cost incurred | Irrigation meter |
Meter - failure to allow access/noncompliance | Disconnect or citation | Fine up to $1,000 and/or up to 90 days in jail. Plus $50 per month starting the next billing until in compliance. |
Meter - tampering fee | $260 | Fine plus costs |
Meter - testing | Actual costs incurred | |
Meter deposit | $1,350 | |
Hydrant usage fee/rental fee | $25 plus cost of water used | |
Sewer access charge - SAC | $2,000 | Per standard equivalent connection (SEC) |
Water access charge - WAC | $1,000 | Per standard equivalent connection (SEC) |
Reconnect fee | $55 | Residents that request their water be shut off for several months due to being out of state will not have to pay a shut-off or reconnect fee but are required to pay the monthly REU base rates for water and sewer even though the water is shut off. |
Request to reconnect water after 3:30 p.m. or on a weekend day | $150 | |
Basic service charges (REUs/SFR) for water and sewer | ||
Wastewater | $10.08 per SFR unit | Each account that is not a single-family residence account shall pay a basic service charge that is a multiple of the SFR unit basic service charge as calculated by staff pursuant to § 51.04(B)(2). |
Water | $17.85 per SFR unit | |
Per gallon operating charges for water and sewer | ||
Water usage fees (gallons) | Cost per gallon ($) | |
Zero gallons to 6,000 gallons | 0.005242 | Minimum bill for water usage is 2,500 gallons |
6,001 gallons to 20,000 gallons | 0.005626 | |
20,001 to 38,000 gallons | 0.005907 | |
38,001 to 50,000 gallons | 0.006188 | |
Over 50,000 gallons per month | 0.006604 | |
All gallons used will be billed on the appropriate usage tier. Example: 6,256 gallons used would be billed at the 6,001 to 20,000 gallon rate for all gallons used. | ||
Sewer usage fees (gallons) | Cost per gallon ($) | |
0-6,000 gallons | 0.010320 | Minimum bill is 2,500 gallons |
6,001 gallons to 20,000 gallons | 0.0107000 | |
20,001 to 38,000 gallons | 0.011030 | |
38,001 to 50,000 gallons | 0.011340 | |
Over 50,000 gallons per month | 0.011650 | |
State drinking water fee | Fee determined by the state | When the state changes the fee, the city will reflect the increased price on the utility bill |
Sprinkler systems - see ordinance | ||
NSF charge | $35 | |
Outside city limits water/sewer rates | See notation | Must pay WAC/SAC, additional 50% of the rates to all pre-existing users outside of the city limits |
(Ord. 311, passed 11-7-2023)