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0 0 4-8002 4-8002 PENALTY FEE FOR LATE (c) Farm Fee Schedule.Businesses which are classi- PAYMENT OF BUSINESS FEES. fied as farm operations shall pay an annual fee of eigh- In the event that any business fee is paid after the teen dollars ($18.00)per fixed storage site at the time of deadline for payment of that fee, a penalty fee of ten submittal of the required annual site hazardous material percent(10%) of the amount of the filing fee applicable inventory. to that plan shall be applied for payment at the time of (d) Exemption for Medical Businesses.Medical prac- paying the fee. The ten percent(10%) filing fee penalty titioners,including physicians,dentists;podiatrists,veteri- shall be deemed to be compensation for the additional narians or pharmacists who use less than one thousand administrative service and enforcement procedures neces- (1,000)cubic feet of oxygen or nitrous oxide at any one sary to obtain compliance from a business for paying the (1) time shall pay a one (1) time fee of fifty dollars business fees. (Ord. 3496) ($50.00) at the time of submittal of their one (1) time inventory as required by law. 4.8003 RISK MANAGEMENT AND (e) Fees under this chapter shall be paid once a year PREVENTION PROGRAM at the time of submittal of an inventory form. In the PLANS. event that there is a change of ownership of a business Fees for the costs of filing and processing Risk Man- in a given year, the new owner must submit an annual agement and Prevention Program Registration Forms and inventory form with the fee set out in accordance with Plan required by the Health and Safety Code Sections this chapter within sixty(60)calendar days of commence- 25530, et seq., shall be computed by and consist of the ment of business activities at the site. Inasmuch as the following components: fees under this chapter are reflective of the cost of admin- 1. Administration fees of ninety dollars($90.00)per istering and enforcing the procedures of this chapter, business; there shall not be a reduction,proration or refund of a fee 2. An hourly rate for RMPP consultations and review in the event that a business operates for less than a and dispersion modeling assistance based upon the aver- twelve(12)month period from the annual due date of the age hourly rate of compensation for hazardous materials inventories. (Ord. 3639; 3706; Ord. 3895 § 6, 1996) specialists of the Office of Emergency Services at the time the consultation and review is performed. (Ord. 4-8005 FAILURE TO FILE, FILING j 3496; 3706) FALSE OR MISLEADING r PLANS—FEES,PENALTIES AND 4-8004 FEE SCHEDULES FOR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS. BUSINESS EMERGENCY PLANS; A business which has failed to file the required busi- MEDICAL BUSINESS ess emergency plan and annual business inventory for EXEMPTIONS AND FARM FEE y given year must file the plan and inventory,pay the SCHEDULE. ees, and pay any late penalty charge for that particular (a) Common Materials Fee Schedule. Businesses ear and past years for which a plan and inventory was handling only the following substances: gasoline,diesel, not filed as required by law, upon discovery of the omis- motor oil,waste motor oil,propane,antifreeze,and waste sion to file.Provided,however,a business will not be re- antifreeze, shall pay an annual fee of seventy dollars quired to file a pian and inventory for a year which is in ($70.00) plus fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hazardous excess of four (4) calendar years prior to the date of material listed on their required annual inventory form. discovery of the omission. All fees and late penalty Businesses which store any of the above materials above charges shall be those set for the year in which the plan ground in excess of one thousand and one hundred nd inventory are filed. (1,100) gallons shall be regulated by subsection (b) of A business which has filed false documents to indicate this section. that the business is exempt from filing a plan and inven- (b) Regular Fee Schedule. Businesses which handle tory, or which failed to disclose information which was hazardous materials in quantities equal to or greater than within the knowledge of the business and which was that specified by state statute and which do not meet the required on the filed plan and inventory, or which has in criteria of any other category of this section shall pay an any other way misrepresented information on a plan and annual fee of two hundred forty dollars ($240.00), plus inventory,for any year,shall be required to file a correct fifteen dollars($15.00)for each hazardous material listed plan,pay fees,and pay late penalty charges,for that year, on their annual inventory form, up to a maximum of and past years the business handled hazardous materials thirty (30) hazardous materials. which were regulated in that year,and the matter will be 141 (San Joaquin County 3-99)