A. There is hereby imposed upon any person presenting or issuing a check to the City or any division, department, section, office, branch, function or agency thereof, for any purpose in connection with the payment of any obligation arising under any statute, ordinance, regulation or resolution, or in payment for any goods or services provided or to be provided, or in payment of any contractual undertaking of any kind, a fee of eighteen dollars per check if such check is dishonored by the drawee institution for or by reason of insufficient funds in or a closed or non-existent account at the drawee institution, in accordance with the following procedures.

B. Said fee shall be due and payable when such check is returned to the City, and shall be billed forthwith where such check is presented as payment for water or to the Water Services Department for services, or in any case in which the drawee maintains no facility for payment of such check within the City limits, or (3) in any case in which the reason for dishonor is a closed or non-existent account.

C. Said fee shall be due and payable in any other case immediately after the City Treasurer has presented to the drawee the returned check for payment or exchange for drawee’s funds and payment or exchange has been refused.

D. All such fees collected shall be paid to the City Treasurer for deposit and credit to such funds as the City Manager shall direct.

E. The City Treasurer may waive any fee where the check is paid prior to contact with the maker by the City in an effort to secure payment of the check, or in a situation in which the maker’s account was closed or the check dishonored for reasons beyond the maker’s control. (Ord. No. G-5444, § 2, 2009)