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provided), to a customer who is consuming no water, to a water customer who is directly connected to a county owned sewer, or to a water customer whose only water consumption is for fire service or irrigation. The moneys collected by such a service fee would be placed into a fund that would be used only to repair, replace and perform preventative maintenance on city owned sewer mains or sewer trunk lines, and associated costs. In addition, in a change to current policy, the City could use such funds to repair and replace that portion of the sewer customer's lateral that lies within the public right of way when necessary. No moneys from this fund would go to the city's general fund. This ordinance has been found to be, and the Council concurs is, exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Public Resources Code § 15273(a)(1) (exempting charges imposed by public agencies to meet operating expenses) and State CEQA Guidelines § 15301 (exempting the repair, maintenance or minor alteration of existing public facilities). Section 2: Sections 39-55.1 - 39.55.6 are hereby added to the Santa Ana Municipal Code to read as follows: Sec. 39-55.1. Sewerage Service Fee - Purpose. In order to reimburse the City, in part, for its service in transporting sewerage from a water utility customer or other person using the city-owned sewer system and facilities to Orange County's publicly owned treatment works and related infrastructure, and to operate, maintain, repair and replace said city- owned sewer system and facilities, it is appropriate for the City to charge a sewerage service fee. This fee does not duplicate any existing fee, charge, levy or other toll currently collected by any public agency, and is intended to be, and shall be interpreted as, distinct and separate from any current or future (a) sewer standby or availability charge or assessment; (b) special benefit assessment or special tax imposed pursuant to state or local law; (c) sewer connection charge or sewer capacity charge paid in connection with or as a condition of approving an application for sewer service; or (d)any mitigation fee imposed on new development pursuant to state law (Government Code § 66000 et seq.) or local law. Where appropriate, words and phrases used in sections 39-55.1 through 39.55.6 shall have the same meaning as given them under Article II of this Chapter. Sec. 39-55.2. Sewerage Service Fee - Establishment. a. Except as provided in section 39-55.3 of this Code, upon each water utility customer of the City there shall be imposed, in addition to the commodity charge for usage of City water, a sewerage service fee. All sewerage Ordinance No. NS-2479 Page 2 of 6