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ORDINANCE NO.
1199
(CIty Council SerIes)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA ADDING SECTION 7137 TO THE SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE ESTABLISHING SEWER CONNECTION FEES.
WHEREAS, the deterioration of the Colorado Street sewer
~as shown the ImmedIate need for maintenance of and improvements
to the sewer system In Santa MonIca; and
WHEREAS, In 1978 the Sewer Use Fee was lowered in an effort
to keep water and sewer bIlls as low as possible; and
WHEREAS, there IS a need to establish a means of fundIng
the maIntenance and capital improvements required in the sewer
system In Santa Monica;
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION I. SectIon 7137 is added to the Santa MonIca
MunIcipal Code, to read as follows:
SectIon 7137. SEWER CONNECTION FEE.
(a) The owner or developer of a bUIldIng in the City shall
pay a sewer connectIon fee to the CIty. This fee shall be
paid to the Department of General Services before the issuance
of the next permIt or certificate required in the course of
development or occupancy of the bUIldIng. No City
permIt or certificate of occupancy shall be issued in
connectIon WIth a bUIlding untIl the Department of General
Services certIfies that payment of the prescribed fee
has been received.
(b) The fee shall be established and from time to time be
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amended or revised by Resolution of the CIty Council. The
DIrector of General Services may increase the fee for any
building if in his or her judgment the sewage flow will
be greater than average.
(c) If the use of property subject to this section is changed
so that Its sewage flow warrants the payment of a higher fee,
as shown on the CIty Council Resolution setting the fee, the
owner or developer of the property shall pay an additional
fee, as determlned by the Director of General ServIces.
(d) ThIS fee shall be supplementary to all other permIt and
fee requirements of thIS Chapter.
SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica MunIcipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent therewith, to the extent
of such inconslstencies and no further, are hereby repealed or
modifIed to that extent necessary to affect the provis~ons of
thIS ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of thIS ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstItutIonal by a decislon of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such deciSIon shall not affect the validity of the
remaIning portions of the ordInance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portIon of the ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutIonal.
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SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the CIty Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this ordInance. This City Clerk shall
cause the same to be publIshed once In the offIcial newspaper
within fifteen (15) days after Its adoption. The ordInance shall
become effective after thIrty (30) days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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STEPHEM SHANE STARK ~
Acting City Attorney
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ADOPTED Aim APPROVED TH IS
OF February ~ 1981.
24th
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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOHJG ORDINAUCEJ..
~JO. 1~?9 J HAS DULY Arm REGUlJ\RLY INTRODUCED AT ^ :"lEETING
OF -fHE CITY COlH1CIL ON THE 11 th DAY OF February J 1981;
THAT THE SAID OPJHNANCE HAS THEREAFTER DULY ADOPTED AT A
MEETING OF THE Clrf COUNCIL or~ THE. 24th DAY OF Februa~Y1981
BY THE FOLLO\-lIrJG COUNCIL VOTE:
AYES: COUNCIU1E~BERS: Yannatta Goldway) JennIngs) Reed)
Scott and Mayor BambrIck
rJOES: COU:lC I U1E~BER: None
ABSENT: courJC I L'1P1BERS :
Rhoden
ATTEST: '-
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CITY CLERK
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