(A) (1) Upon the appointment or designation of the Violations Clerk as provided by § 34.01 of this chapter, the Town Council shall designate, by ordinance or code, a schedule of ordinance and code provisions that are subject to admission of violation before the Violations Clerk and the amount of civil penalty to be assessed to a violator who elects to admit a violation under this chapter.
(2) Civil penalties shall be paid to, receipted by and accounted for by the Clerk under procedures provided for by the state’s Board of Accounts. Payment of civil penalties under this chapter may be made in person, by mail or to an agent or agents designated by the Town Council.
(I.C. 33-36-3-1) (Prior Code, § 34.04)
(B) (1) The following rates shall be applied and charged to violators of town ordinances in the event the town must itself abate, clean-up, disposal or compliance task that the violating property failed to do as required by ordinance or statute:
Town employee manpower | $50/hour per person, billed in minimum increments of one hour |
Town tractor, backhoe | $90/hour |
Town dump truck | $60/hour |
Town Bushhog, mower | $75/hour |
Other town machinery | $40/hour |
NOTES TO TABLE: All above shall be billed in minimum increments of one hour. | |
(2) Any charges incurred by the town for third party contractors performing or assisting with abatement, clean-up, disposal or compliance work shall be charged to violators at the town’s actual cost, plus 10%. Examples of such charges are trash container (“dumpster”) rentals, trash hauling and tipping fees, vehicle towing charges and demolition contractors.
(3) Any charges incurred by the town for materials or consumables used for abatement, clean-up, disposal or compliance work shall be charged to violators at the town’s actual cost, plus 10%. Examples of such charges are lumber, tarps, seed, fill dirt and trash bags.
(4) The foregoing are in addition to any fines, attorney fees, postage and mailing expenses and any other costs imposed by ordinance or state law for violations of same.
(5) A copy of this section may be attached to any notice of violation as proof of the basis of those costs.
(Ord. 7-2014, passed 12-9-2014)