§ 1.08.060. Assessment.

A.

The City Manager, or his or her designee, is authorized to establish a schedule of violations and assessments or similar guidelines for assessing the amount, rate of recurrence, and duration of civil penalties.

B.

Civil penalties, excluding accruing interest, shall not be assessed at more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) each day nor more than three hundred sixty five thousand dollars ($365,000.00) cumulatively each calendar year for an individual parcel or separate structure thereon for any related series of major violations.

C.

The assessment of civil penalties may begin to accrue on the date of initial occurrence of the violation, as identified by the City.

D.

The assessment of civil penalties shall cease when all major violations are wholly and permanentiy corrected.

E.

Civil penalties shall be assessed based upon the following factors:

1.

The duration and frequency of recurrence of the major violation;

2.

The detrimental effects of the major violation on the occupants of the property and the surrounding neighborhood and the community at large;

3.

The history of compliance efforts by the responsible person to correct the major violation wholly and permanently;

4.

The viability of the civil penalty to effect abatement of the major violation wholly and permanently;

5.

Other factors that serve justice.

(Ord. 12623 § 2 (part), 2004: Ord. 12550 § 2 (part), 2003: Ord. 11805 § 1 (part), 1995: prior code § 1-6.06)