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Sec. 27.133.2. - CIVIL PENALTIES: A user may be liable for up to twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) a day for each violation, as set forth in California Government Code Section 54740. Sec. 27.133.3. - ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES: In lieu of the civil penalties, the City may, through the issuance of an administrative citation, impose administrative penalties in the following amounts, as set forth in California Government Code Section 54740.5: (a) up to two thousand dollars ($2,000) for each day for failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring reports; (b) up to three thousand dollars ($3,000) for each day for failing or refusing to timely comply with any compliance schedule established by the Enforcement Officer; (c) up to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per violation for each day for discharges in violation of any waste discharge limitation, permit condition, or requirement issued, reissued, or adopted by the City; (d) up to ten dollars ($10) per gallon for discharges in violation of any suspension, cease and desist order or other orders, or prohibition issued, reissued, or adopted by the Enforcement Officer. Any person against whom penalties are assessed by the administrative citation hearing officer may appeal to the City Council, the decision of the hearing officer within thirty (30) days of notice of the decision. The City Council shall conduct the appeal hearing in accordance with procedures set forth in Chapter 1 of this Municipal Code. The decision of the City Council shall be in writing and shall be final. All civil penalties imposed in accordance with this Section shall be payable within thirty (30) days of the decision of the hearing officer. The amount of such civil administrative penalties that have remained delinquent for a period of sixty (60) days shall constitute a lien against the real property of the discharger from which the discharge originated resulting in the imposition of the civil penalty. Sec. 27.134. - FALSIFYING INFORMATION: Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, representation or certification in any application, record, report, plan or document filed or required to be maintained pursuant to this Chapter, or who falsifies, tampers with, or knowingly renders inaccurate any monitoring device or method shall be subject to misdemeanor prosecution and upon conviction, shall be punished in accord with the provisions of Chapter 1 of this Municipal Code. Sec. 27.135. - CRIMINAL PROSECUTION: Any user who is found to have willfully or negligently failed to comply with any provision of this Chapter, and the orders, rules, regulations and permits issued hereunder, may be charged with a misdemeanor for each offense and, upon conviction, shall be punished in accord with Chapter 1 of this Municipal Code, unless otherwise specified. Each day on which a violation shall occur or continue shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense. ATTY/ORD.506/CC FOG ORDINANCE REV: 11-27-19 EI Page 17 of 18