1.14.090 Administrative penalties.
A. The City Council may impose administrative penalties for the violation of any provision of this Code in an amount not to exceed a maximum of one thousand dollars per violation, except that the total administrative penalty shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars—exclusive of administrative costs, interest and restitution for compliance reinspections—for any related series of violations.
B. In determining the amount of the administrative penalty, the City Council may take any or all of the following factors into consideration:
1. The duration of the violation;
2. The frequency, recurrence and number of violations, related or unrelated, by the same violator;
3. The seriousness of the violation;
4. The good faith efforts of the violator to come into compliance;
5. The economic impact of the penalty on the violator;
6. The impact of the violation on the community;
7. Such other factors as the Council may require.
C. Administrative penalties imposed by the City Council shall accrue from the date of the violation specified in the compliance order and shall cease to accrue on the date the violation is corrected as determined by the Director or the City Council.
D. The City Council, in its discretion, may suspend the imposition of applicable penalties for any period of time during which:
1. The violator has filed for necessary permits; and
2. Such permits are required to achieve compliance; and
3. Such permit applications are actively pending before the City, State or other appropriate governmental agency.
E. Administrative penalties assessed by the City Council shall be due and paid by the date specified in the administrative order.
F. If the violation is not corrected as specified in the City Council’s order to correct, pursuant to Section 1.14.080(A), administrative penalties shall continue to accrue on a daily basis until the violation is corrected, subject to the maximum amount set forth in Subsection A of this Section.
G. If the violator gives written notice to the Director that the violation has been corrected and if the Director finds that compliance has been achieved, the Director shall deem the date the written notice was postmarked or personally delivered to the Director or the date of the final inspection, whichever first occurred, to be the date the violation was corrected. If no written notice is provided to the Director, the violation will be deemed corrected on the date of the final inspection. (Ord. 2013-2 § 5, 2013; Ord. 99-2 § 1, 1999.)