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 Delray Beach
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 5. PUBLIC WORKS
 Chapter 52. WATER
 RATES, CHARGES, AND FEES

  § 52.39. OTHER FEES.  

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  • (A)

    Project Inspection Fee. The Environmental Services Department will estimate the construction cost of the water and sewer improvements to be inspected. The inspection fee will be charged to the project owner and will be calculated as construction cost of water and sewer improvements x [times] two (2.0) percent, but in no case less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00). In addition, for all water and sewer inspections taking place after normal environmental services business hours, the project owner will pay additional inspection fees at an overtime rate of forty dollars ($40.00) per hour per inspector. Fees will be billed to the project owner periodically and the project owner shall pay all fees before the certificate of occupancy is issued.

    (B)

    Utility Standards Fee. The charge for the minimum construction standards book (utility standards) issued by the Environmental Services Department is twenty-five dollars ($25.00).

    (C)

    Late Payment. In the event water use charges become delinquent and/or water services are discontinued by the City, a five-dollar late payment penalty will be charged to the account.

    (D)

    Meter Reread Charge. There will be a charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each reread request in excess of three (3) such requests in any one month requested by a customer. If the meter reading is in error in favor of the customer, the account will be adjusted accordingly and the fifteen dollars ($15.00) service charge shall be waived.

    (E)

    Removal of Service Line. There will be a charge for the removal of the service line based on the actual cost (labor and materials) plus a ten (10) percent surcharge, or one hundred dollars ($100.00), whichever is greater, per occurrence.

    (F)

    Reinstallation of a Service Line. In the event that a service line has been removed for nonpayment of charges, there will be a charge for reinstallation of a service line based upon the actual replacement cost (labor and materials) plus a ten (10) percent surcharge, or one hundred dollars ($100.00), whichever is greater, per occurrence.

    (G)

    Destruction of Meter and/or Related Equipment. In the event of any damage to meters and/or other appliance or appurtenance, there will be a charge based upon actual replacement cost (labor and materials) plus a ten (10) percent surcharge, or one hundred dollars ($100.00), whichever is greater, per occurrence.

    (H)

    Fee for Maintenance of Improvements within Right-of-Way. In the event the City places landscaping improvements and irrigation systems to maintain the landscaping improvements within the right-of-way, the City Commission may impose a fee to cover the cost of providing water to maintain the improvements and to provide for the cost of installing and maintaining a sprinkler or other irrigation system. The City Commission may authorize the payment of a fee to be collected monthly and to be included on the monthly water bill for property owners whose property adjoins the right-of-way in which the City installed the landscaping improvements. The fee shall be seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) [per month] per parcel located adjacent to the right-of-way.

(Ord. No. 59-90, passed 12/11/90; Am. Ord. No. 67-91, passed 12/3/91; Am. Ord. No. 55-93, passed 11/23/93; Am. Ord. No. 60-94, passed 8/16/94; Am. Ord. No. 31-96, passed 9/17/96; Am. Ord. No. 10-97, passed 2/18/97; Am. Ord. No. 52-98, passed 1/5/99; Ord. No. 28-01, § 9, passed 5/15/01)