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is to be made. The amount may be reduced at the discretion of the director of public <br />works to allow for extra length of house sewer or connecting sewer if necessary. <br />Sec. 39-53. - Connection permit required; determination of fee. <br />(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) below, no person shall make any <br />sewer connection unless a permit shall have been applied for and issued by the director <br />of public works. No permit for such connection shall be issued by the director of public <br />works as provided in this section unless the application is accompanied by the payment <br />of a fee to the agency in an amount which the director of public works shall determine to <br />be the applicant's proportionate share of the cost of construction of such public sewer, <br />as prescribed in subsection (c). <br />(b) Whenever a main sewer line is replaced by a new line, the laterals <br />connected to the former line shall be connected to the new line and the entire lower <br />lateral shall be reconstructed or rehabilitated as part of the installation thereof. In such <br />event, no permit shall be required from the owner or occupant of any existing premises <br />thus reconnected. <br />(c) The sewer connection fee for the applicant's proportionate share of the <br />cost of public sewer construction shall be computed on the following basis: <br />(1) The fee shall be an amount equal to the assessment per fixture unit, <br />multiplied by the net increase in fixture units on the parcel or parcels for which sewer <br />connection application is made over the total fixture units previously serviced by any <br />sewer line to which such parcel or parcels were connected. The number of fixture units <br />assigned to each plumbing fixture shall be as provided in the California Plumbing Code. <br />(2) In all cases of sewer connection application for the servicing of a <br />commercial laundry or restaurant, a fee in the amount of the standard cost per fixture <br />unit multiplied by thirty (30) fixture units per clothes washing or dishwashing machine <br />shall be assessed in addition to other fee assessments pursuant to subparagraph (1) <br />above. <br />(3) The city council shall, from time to time, establish by resolution the current <br />assessment per fixture unit and the sewer connection application fees resulting <br />therefrom in accordance with this section. <br />(4) All fees collected shall be deposited into the sewer connection fee fund <br />pursuant to article VII of chapter 13. <br />Sec. 39-54. - Development conditioned upon sewer line construction. <br />The director of public works shall review building permit applications for the <br />purpose of determining whether the proposed development would result in an overload <br />of existing sewer line capacity. No building permit which would result in such overload <br />Ordinance No. NS -XXX <br />Page 39 of 56 <br />75C-41 <br />