The following charges shall be made for copies of municipal
documents:
(1)
Zoning
ordinance: $15.00 per copy.
(2)
Subdivision
ordinance: $15.00 per copy.
(3)
Zoning
map: $5.00 per copy.
(4)
Sign
ordinance: $10.00 per copy.
(5)
Fee
schedule: $1.00 per copy.
(Ordinance 2001-02 adopted 1/9/01; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
1)
(a)
Permit
fees.
An application for a permit for an alarm site is required and a nonrefundable fee for such permit is set forth below. A permit is issued for one year and must be renewed each year thereafter by payment of the permit fee. It is the responsibility of the permit holder to pay the renewal fee no later than the seventh day of the month following the renewal month (“the renewal due date”). If the permit is not renewed on or before the renewal due date, it expires and is no longer valid. The department, at is discretion, may renew an expired permit upon payment of all fees due, plus late fees accumulating at the rate of $10.00 for every 30 days that have elapsed since the renewal due date. Additional fees for late payment may also be applicable, as provided in section 5.02.012 of the code.
(b)
False
alarm fees.
False alarm fees will be charged as follows:
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Type
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Description
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Fee
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|---|---|---|
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Alarm system (noncommercial alarm site)
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Permit fee
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$50.00 (each)
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Alarm system (commercial alarm site)
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Permit fee
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$100.00 (each)
|
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False (non-robbery)
|
3rd, 4th, and 5th false alarms during the preceding 12-month
period
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$50.00
|
|
False (non-robbery)
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6th and 7th false alarms during the preceding 12-month period
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$75.00
|
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False (non-robbery)
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8th and further false alarms in the preceding 12-month period
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$100.00 (each)
|
|
False (robbery)
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Each false robbery alarm, regardless of number of previous false
alarms
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$100.00 (each)
|
|
Failure of emergency contact person to respond
|
The alarm user’s emergency contact person or designee
must respond within 30 minutes to secure a building or residence
|
$50.00
|
|
Reinstatement fee
|
Renewal of expired or suspended permit
|
$50.00 (plus any late fees)
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(Ordinance 264-2006 adopted 5/23/06; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
5; Ordinance 770-2018, sec. 3.02,
adopted 4/10/18)
(a)
The
permit fee to manufacture, distill, brew, import, transport, store
for purposes of sale, distribute or sell any alcoholic beverage within
the city is one-half of the state fee required by the Texas Alcoholic
Beverage Code (TABC) of every person that may be issued any permit
or license or renew such permit or license by the state for the manufacture,
distilling, brewing, importing, transporting, storing, distributing
or sale of any alcoholic beverage.
(b)
The permit fee for a mixed beverage permit shall not be charged for an original application and shall not be charged for the first two annual renewals. For the third annual renewal of a mixed beverage permit, and for all subsequent renewals thereafter, a permit fee shall be charged in accordance with subsection (a).
(Ordinance 108-2003 adopted 9/9/03; Ordinance 482-2009 adopted 1/27/09; Ordinance
590-2012 adopted 8/28/12; Ordinance 722-2016 adopted 8/9/16; 2008 Code, pt. II, art. 3, sec. 2)
(a)
Within the corporate limits of the city, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in solicitation, as defined in section 5.05.002, without having first obtained a permit therefor from the city.
(b)
The application shall be accompanied by a $35.00 fee for the original solicitor or applicant, plus a $35.00 fee for each additional solicitor, for the investigation and administration of the provisions of article 5.05. This fee shall be paid to the city permit officer. In addition, the applicant shall pay a $15.00 fee for each identification card issued.
(Ordinance 283-2006 adopted 8/22/06; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
2; Ordinance 840-2020, sec. 4, adopted 1/14/20)
There shall be submitted with each application for an itinerant
vendor’s permit an application fee of $25.00, unless the applicant
has obtained an itinerant vendor permit from the city within the same
calendar year as the application submission date, in which case the
fee is waived.
(Ordinance 582-2012 adopted 4/24/12; 2008 Code, pt. II, art. 10, sec.
6.04)
Every person, firm, corporation, association, or other legal
entity desiring to drill and/or operate any gas or oil well of any
kind in the city limits must obtain the proper permit from the city
secretary before proceeding. A permit fee of $5,000.00 shall be required
before any such permit may be issued.
(Ordinance 89-2003 adopted 8/12/03; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
4)
Any burning intended to be carried out under the exceptions
stated in section 6.04.002 [sic] may not occur until an application
has been submitted and a permit has been issued and signed by the
fire marshal. The permit fee shall be $50.00 per allowable burn.
(Ordinance 329-2007 adopted 6/12/07; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
3)
In cases of a public emergency, the public works director may
issue permits, at no charge, to individuals and companies for demolition
or construction work or operation of equipment if it is the best interest
of the public.
(Ordinance 87-2003 adopted 7/29/03; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
6)
(a)
Special
event permit fee: $50.00.
(b)
Cleanup
deposit (refundable upon approved cleanup inspection): $300.00.
(Ordinance 410-2008 adopted 10/14/08; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
7)
Tent/seasonal sales permit fee: $50.00.
(2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec. 8)
Construction trailer permit fee: $200.00. (Includes all required
inspections.)
(2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec. 9)
(c)
Baseball
fields/multipurpose fields charge:
(1)
Anna resident: $15.00/hour (2-hour minimum) plus $10.00/hour field
lights charge if lights used (2-hour minimum).
(2)
Nonresident: $25.00/hour (2-hour minimum) plus $20.00/hour field
lights charge if lights used (2-hour minimum).
(3)
Tournament (3 or more teams): $40.00/team plus $25.00/hour field
lights charge if lights used (2-hour minimum).
(4)
Adult league play (multiple weeks): To reserve one day a week for
the entire length of the season = $1,000.00 (two days a week for the
season = $2,000.00 etc.). Concession stand included.
(5)
Cleanup deposit (refundable upon approved cleanup inspection): $200.00.
(Ordinance 419-2008 adopted 12/9/08; Ordinance 608-2013 adopted 1/8/13; 2008 Code, pt.
IV, art. 5, sec. 10; Ordinance 815-2019 adopted 4/23/19)
(a)
Labor
charges.
(1)
Labor charges will be applied to any public information request that:
(2)
Labor charges may not exceed $15.00/hour.
(3)
Labor charges may not be charged to the requestor for any time spent
by an attorney, legal assistant, or any other person who reviews the
requested information:
(A)
To determine whether the city will raise any exceptions to disclosure
of the requested information under the Texas Government Code, subchapter
C, chapter 552; or
(B)
To research or prepare a request for a ruling by the attorney general’s
office pursuant to section 552.301 of the Texas Government Code.
(4)
When confidential information pursuant to a mandatory exception of
the Public Information Act is mixed with public information in the
same page, a labor charge may be recovered for time spent to redact,
black out, or otherwise obscure confidential information in order
to release the public information. A labor charge shall not be made
for redacting confidential information for requests of 50 or fewer
pages, unless the request also qualifies for a labor charge [pursuant]
to Texas Government Code, section 552.261(a)(1) or (2).
(5)
Labor charges may not be imposed to the extent that personnel charges
are imposed.
(b)
Programming
labor charges.
If a public information request requires
the services of a programmer in order to execute an existing program
or to create a new program so that requested information may be accessed
and copied, the city may charge for the programmer’s time as
a programming labor charge in accordance with state law and rules
of the attorney general.
(c)
Personnel
charges.
Personnel charges are calculated at an hourly
rate for time spent by personnel in locating, compiling, manipulating
data, and reproducing public information for inspection or duplication
by a requestor or providing copies of public information to a requestor
that is in excess of 36 cumulative hours in a 12-month period, said
period to correspond with the fiscal year of the city. When personnel
charges are applicable, the charge is calculated by determining the
sum total of the actual cost of all employees’ time spent on
a public information request. Whenever personnel charges are imposed,
labor charges may not be imposed.
(d)
Overhead
charges.
(2)
The methodology for computing an overhead charge is to multiply 20%
of any labor charges, programming labor charges or personnel charges,
associated with any given public information request.
(3)
An overhead charge shall not be made for requests for copies of 50
or fewer pages of standard paper copies unless the request also qualifies
for a labor charge pursuant to Texas Government Code, section 552.261(a)(1)
or (2).
(e)
Charges
for copies, nonstandard copies and other materials.
In
addition to charging $0.10 per paper copy for standard copies, the
following charges shall apply with regard to all public information
requests:
(1)
Nonstandard copies:
(A)
Diskette: $1.00.
(B)
Magnetic tape: Actual cost.
(C)
Data cartridge: Actual cost.
(D)
Tape cartridge: Actual cost.
(E)
Rewritable CD (CD-RW): $1.00.
(F)
Non-rewritable CD (CD-R): $1.00.
(G)
Digital video disc (DVD): $3.00.
(H)
JAZ drive: Actual cost.
(I)
Other electronic media: Actual cost.
(J)
VHS videocassette: $2.50.
(K)
Audio cassette: $1.00.
(L)
Oversized copy (e.g., 11 inches by 17 inches, greenbar, bluebar,
not including maps and photographs using specialty paper): $0.50.
(M)
Specialty paper: Actual cost.
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Charges for nonstandard copies or oversized copies are applicable
to all public information requests, regardless of the number of pages
or the time involved in the response to the public information request.
|
(2)
Microfiche and microfilm charge.
(A)
If the city already has information that exists on microfiche or
microfilm and has copies available for sale or distribution, the charge
for a copy must not exceed the cost of its reproduction. If no copies
of the requested microfiche or microfilm are available and the information
on the microfiche or microfilm can be released in its entirety, the
city may make a copy of the microfiche or microfilm. The charge for
a copy shall not exceed the cost of its reproduction.
(B)
If only master copy of information in microfilm is maintained, the
charge is $0.10 per page for standard paper copies, plus any applicable
labor and overhead charge for more than 50 copies.
(3)
Remote document retrieval.
If the city has a contract
with a commercial records storage company, whereby the private company
charges a fee to locate, retrieve, deliver, and return to storage
the needed record(s), no additional labor charge shall be factored
in for time spent locating documents at the storage location by the
private company’s personnel. If after delivery to the city,
the materials must still be searched for records that are responsive
to the request, the city may charge for such search in accordance
with this section.
(5)
Miscellaneous supplies.
The actual cost of miscellaneous
supplies, such as labels, boxes, and other supplies used to produce
the requested information, may be added to the total charge for public
information.
(6)
Postal and shipping charges.
The city may add any related
postal or shipping expenses that are necessary to transmit the reproduced
information to the requesting party.
(7)
Miscellaneous charges.
If the city accepts payment by
credit card for copies of public information and is charged a “transaction
fee” by the credit card company, the city may recover that fee
from the requestor.
(Ordinance 427-2009 adopted 1/27/09; 2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec.
11)
(a)
Refunds.
The city shall not issue any refunds of fees tendered for any
equipment covered by Texas Local Government Code chapter 284 which
has been removed.
(b)
(c)
Annual
pole attachment rate.
Rate calculated at time of application
by city staff in accordance with Texas Utilities Code section 54.204.
(d)
Annual
public right-of-way rate.
Unless otherwise provided by
ordinance, payments of annual rates for a calendar year shall be tendered
to the city on or before September 30 of that calendar year. Payments
of annual rates for facilities installed or constructed on or after
October 1 of a calendar year shall be tendered to the city no later
than September 30 of the following calendar year.
(1)
Network nodes and transport facilities:
$250.00 multiplied
by the number of network nodes installed in the public right-of-way
in the city’s corporate limits. In the discretion of the city
council, the city may charge a network provider a lower rate or fee
if the lower rate or fee is nondiscriminatory, related to the use
of the public right-of-way, and not a prohibited gift of public property.
(2)
Node support poles:
No separate rate independent of
the network node rate above.
(e)
Monthly
public right-of-way rate.
(1)
Transport facilities installed by a network provider:
$28.00 multiplied by the number of the network provider’s network nodes in the public right-of-way for which the installed transport facilities provide backhaul. This rate is in addition to the annual public right-of-way rate applicable to the transport facility under subsection (d) of this section, if any. This rate shall apply unless and until the time the network provider’s payment of other municipal fees to the city exceeds its monthly aggregate per-node compensation to the city (e.g., under LGC, chapter 283 or Texas Utilities Code, chapter 66).
(2)
Transport facilities installed by non-network provider:
The base rate supplied by city staff at the time of application,
multiplied by the number of network nodes in the public right-of-way
for which the owner’s transport facilities provide backhaul.
Persons building or installing network nodes, or node support poles
(or any other structure) that supports, or is capable of supporting,
a network node, under a contractual arrangement with a wireless service
provider shall be subject to the rate applicable to network providers
above.
(2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec. 12; Ordinance 748-2017, sec. 4, adopted 8/22/17; Ordinance 754-2017, sec. 3, adopted 9/26/17)
(a)
Driveways
and other curb cuts: $100.00.
(2008 Code, pt. IV, art. 5, sec. 13; Ordinance 748-2017, sec. 4, adopted 8/22/17)
If a violation is abated by the city under section 4.04.009:
(1)
In
the event the violation is abated by the city, an administrative cost
of $150.00 per violation shall be added to total cost of abatement.
(2)
Where
city employees are required to abate a violation (except for abating
weeds and tall grass violations), the city’s actual costs shall
include the administrative cost, plus $25.00 per hour of each employee
working on the abatement. The minimum charge shall be one hour per
employee. Additional charges shall accrue every quarter hour after
one hour.
(3)
Where
city employees are required to abate weeds and tall grass violations,
the city’s actual cost shall include the administrative cost,
plus $50.00 per lot, plus $0.02 per square foot on lots that exceed
21,780 square feet for every square foot over 21,780. Where the abatement
activity exceeds one hour, the actual cost shall include an additional
$25.00 per hour for each employee working on the abatement. Charges
shall accrue every quarter hour after one hour. Additional charges
for disposing of debris and obstructions and other abatement-associated
activities may be assessed.
(Ordinance 240-2005 adopted 11/22/05; Ordinance 498-2010 adopted 5/25/10; 2008 Code,
pt. II, art. 8, sec. 1.11)
If the owner fails to remove graffiti, the city may remove the
graffiti and charge the city’s actual costs to remove the graffiti,
including an administrative fee of $75.00.
(Ordinance 240-2005 adopted 11/22/05; Ordinance 633-2013 adopted 8/27/13; 2008 Code,
pt. II, art. 8, sec. 1.20)
The owner of a of a vehicle, automobile, truck, trailer, or other character of private property impounded under section 11.03.017 shall be entitled to the possession thereof upon payment of the sum of $10.00, together with all other costs of removal and storage that may have accrued thereon.
(Ordinance 1995-14 adopted 10/10/95; Ordinance 228-2005 adopted 9/27/05; Ordinance
550-2011 adopted 7/12/11; 2008 Code, pt. II, art. 59, sec. 2.02(o))
(a)
Credit
card use authorized.
Each official employed by the city
who, as part of that employment, collects fees, fines, court costs,
or other charges from members of the public that are due to the city
is authorized to accept credit cards as payment for such fees, fines,
court costs, and other charges.
(b)
Amount
of processing fee.
For each municipal fee, fine, court
cost, or other charge that is paid by credit card, a processing fee
in an amount being reasonable related to the expense incurred in processing
the credit card payment, not to exceed five percent (5%) of the amount
of the fee, fine, court cost, or other charge shall be added, as authorized
by section 132.003(b), Texas Local Government Code.
(c)
Service
charge.
If for any reason a payment by credit card is not honored by the company on which the funds are drawn, the officer shall collect from the member of the public who attempted to pay by credit card an additional service charge in the same amount charged under section A6.011 for a check that is returned to the city or not honored by the financial institution on which it is drawn for any reason.
(d)
Encumbrance
of credit cards.
The city may contract with a company
that issues credit cards to collect and seize credit cards issued
by the company that are outdated or otherwise unauthorized. The city
may charge the company a fee for the return of the credit cards.
(e)
Disposition
of fees and charges.
The city official collecting a fee
or charge under this section shall deposit the fee or charge in the
general fund of the city.
(Ordinance 874-2020 adopted 9/8/20)
