Sewerage Facilities Charge (SFC)

“There is hereby imposed a sewerage facilities charge which shall be a fee for access to the City's sewage system based upon a share of the equity of the system.”

“Whenever real property tributory to the city sewerage system that can be served by existing sewers, or by the construction of an off-site sewer not longer than one mile to an available assured outlet sewer, whether financed or otherwise, is included within the borders of a new tract map, sewers, if not existing, shall be constructed within or adjacent to the tracts to serve each lot, and as a condition of the approval of the tentative map of each tract and prior to recording of each such tract map, a fee which shall be determined by the Board of Public Works based upon the rates established in section 64.11.3, hereafter referred to as the sewerage facilities charge, shall be paid by the owner thereof to the City”

“The date for calculating the applicable sewerage facilities charge for a particular project or discharge shall be fixed as follows: (i) where a sewer connection permit is required, on the date the connection permit is issued; (ii) where no connection permit is required but a building permit is required, on the date the building permit authorizing the majority of the structural construction is issued; and (iii) where neither a connection permit nor a building permit is required, on the initial date of the increased discharge which triggers the additional payment.”

City of Los Angeles — Board of Public Works / City Engineer (as named in LAMC s. 64.11.3), the agency that levies it

“a fee which shall be determined by the Board of Public Works based upon the rates established in section 64.11.3, hereafter referred to as the sewerage facilities charge, shall be paid by the owner thereof to the City”

“In the event the premises are to be connected to the City sewer system but the sewage entering such system is treated in the facilities of a Los Angeles County Sanitation District, the sewerage facilities charge shall be 15% of the rates established in Subsections (b), (d), and (f) of this section.”

“In determining the sewerage facilities charge, the Board shall: 1. Reduce the sewerage facilities charge when the owner demonstrates that the property has paid special assessments for an interceptor sewer to which it may connect directly or indirectly, by the amount of said special assessment. 2. Reduce the charge by all or part of the amount paid as a contributing property to the construction of an off-site sewer to serve the property prior to the requirement by the City that such charge shall be paid. 3. Provide a credit for any amount previously paid as an acreage charge or a sewerage facilities charge.”

“The rates fixed by the provisions of this section shall be implemented as follows: 1. All sewerage facilities charges paid on or after the operative date of any amendments to this section shall be at the rates specified therein.”