§ 16.20.030. Deposits for costs.

All applications filed with the city clerk will be forwarded to the city engineer or other designated official to determine his estimate of costs required to handle the application, including but not limited to one or more of the following: survey, appraisal, and advertising of the proposed lease of the area under application. Upon determination of the estimated costs the official shall notify applicant in writing of such costs and a deposit thereof must be made within thirty (30) calendar days after the notice is mailed. Failure of applicant to pay the deposit shall result in the application being cancelled. If the applicant does not accept a lease within thirty (30) calendar days after it is offered to the applicant, all deposit money spent or encumbered for survey, appraisal or advertising shall be forfeited, and the balance, if any, shall be returned to the applicant. If the land applied for upon which deposit for costs is made is leased to another, the latter shall be required to pay actual costs of survey, appraisal and advertising, and the original deposit shall be returned to the depositor. The lessee shall be required to pay any excess of costs over deposits, and where the deposit exceeds actual costs, the excess shall be credited to present or future rents under the lease. All survey, appraisal and advertising shall be performed only under the control of the city, and any such work done without such control will not be accepted by the city.

(Prior code § 45.40.030)