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If the property owner or permit holder fails to clean accumulations of soil from the City streets and sidewalks, City sewers or established streams and drainage ditches in the City within the time period described by the Construction Services Administrator, Code Enforcement Officer, or Engineering Services Administrator in the order given pursuant to the Clive Erosion and Sediment Control Enforcement Response Plan chapter of the City Stormwater Management Manual, the City may do so by its own crews or by persons under its hire, and assess against the property owner and permit holder the City’s costs therefor. Said costs shall include the salaries earned by City employees during such cleanup operations, a charge for City machinery used, and such other costs and expenses as the City actually incurred. To the extent allowed by State law, such costs and expenses may be assessed against the property and collected in the same manner as a Property Tax.
The failure of City officials to observe or foresee hazardous or unsightly conditions, or to impose other or additional conditions or requirements on permit holders, or to deny or revoke a grading permit, or to stop work in violation of this chapter shall not relieve the property owners or permit holders of the consequences of their actions or inactions or result in the City, its officers, or agents being liable therefor or on account thereof. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, every applicant bears final and complete responsibility for compliance with a State NPDES General Permit No. 2 and any other requirements of State or federal law or administrative rule.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by this chapter for any particular provision or section, any person violating any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted herein by reference shall be subject to a civil penalty as set forth in the schedule of civil penalties in Title 1 Chapter 4A of this Code. Each day that a municipal infraction occurs or is permitted to exist constitutes a separate offense.