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960.31 REVIEW AND PERMITTING FEES.
   (a)   Permitting fees shall be assessed for the review, permitting and inspection of activities regulated under this chapter.
   (b)   The current fee schedule is located under Chapter 109 General Fee Schedule and can be requested from the City Engineering Department.
   (c)   Fees are due at the time the application is submitted or the permit is modified.
(Ord. 2008-18. Passed 2-19-08.)
960.32 ACCESS AND INSPECTION.
   (a)   The City Engineer, or authorized representative, shall be permitted to enter and inspect sites and/or facilities subject to this chapter as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this chapter.
   (b)   The City Engineer, or authorized representative, shall have the right to set up at sites and/or facilities subject to this chapter such devices as are necessary to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of a site and/or facility's storm water discharge.
   (c)   The City Engineer, or authorized representative, shall have the right to require the site and/or facility owner or operator to install monitoring equipment as necessary. This sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in safe and proper operating condition by the site and/or facility owner or operator at the owner or operator's expense. All devices used to measure storm water flow and quality shall be calibrated to ensure their accuracy.
   (d)   Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and reasonable access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the site and/or facility's owner or operator at the written or oral request of the City Engineer, or authorized representative. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the site and/or facility owner or operator.
(Ord. 2008-18. Passed 2-19-08.)
960.33 ENFORCEMENT.
   (a)   Notice of Violation. Whenever the City Engineer, or authorized representative, finds that a person has violated a prohibition or failed to meet a requirement of this chapter, the City Engineer, or authorized representative, may order compliance by written notice of violation to the responsible person. Such notice may require without limitation:
      (1)   The performance of monitoring, analyses, and reporting;
      (2)   The elimination of illicit connections or discharges;
      (3)   That violating discharges, practices, or operations shall cease and desist;
      (4)   The abatement or remediation of storm water pollution or contamination hazards and the restoration of any affected property;
      (5)   Payment of a fine to cover any administrative and legal costs; and
      (6)   The implementation of source control or treatment BMPs.
   (b)   If abatement of a violation and/or restoration of affected property are required, the Notice of Violation shall set forth a deadline within which such remediation or restoration must be completed. Said notice shall further advise that, should the facility owner or operator fail to remediate or restore within the established deadline, legal action for enforcement may be initiated.
   (c)   Any person receiving a notice of violation must meet compliance standards within the time established in the notice of violation.
   (d)   Administrative Hearing. If the violation has not been corrected pursuant to the requirements set forth in the notice of violation, the City shall schedule an administrative hearing with the author of the notice of violation, the City Engineer, a member of the Law Department and a member of the Safety Service Department to determine reasons for noncompliance and to determine the next enforcement activity. Notice of the administrative hearing shall be hand delivered and/or sent registered mail.
(Ord. 2008-18. Passed 2-19-08.)
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