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, . • ?µ? 1353.12 MAINTAINING GRADE LINES ESTABLISHED BY CITY. (a) WhEn the City Engineer, under any section of this chapter, has set, finally determined andlor established the natural and/or finished grade lines of any paxcel of real estate, lot or land within the City, thus providing for the drainage of surface water therefrom, the owner, occupant or any other person in charge of such premises shall continue to maintain and adhere to said grade lines of the premises and shall further keep all drains, ditches, swales or other surface water conductors open and free and clear of any and all obstructions. (b) Any builder, contractor, landscaper or owner doing any grading, regrading, landscaping, sodding or perForming any other work affecting drainage of any parcel of land in the City shall, prior to doing any such work, and in addition to obtaining any other penmit required by this chapter, obtain from the City Engineer a landscaping permit to perform such work. Such person or persons sha11 furnish a landscaping plan of the parcel of land upon which the work is to be performed. The plan shall show all data necessary to determine the extent and character of the work to be done and its efFect upon drainage. Said plan shall also include landscaping of all area.s on the site in which the soil is not already covered with approved gound cover, buildings or paved areas. Approved ground cover sha11 mean grass seeding, sodding or other landscape plants in which the soil is stabilized against erosion into the City's drainage system or onto another property. In addition, if no approved grading plan for said parcel is on file with the City Engineering Department, then such person or persons sha11 also furnish a grade plan for the parcel of land, prepared and certified by a registered surveyor. The landscaping permit shall be applied for and obtained prior to the issuance of any conditional or permanent occupancy permit for the house, building, addition, or other structure, or part of structure, upon said property for which an occupancy permit is required. All work shown upon the landscaping plan for which a landscaping permit has been issued must be completed within six months from the date of issuance of the landscaping permit, unless an extension of time is granted to the permit holder by the City Engineer based upon demonstrable hardship. (c) As a fuRher condition for issuance of a permit for grading, regrading, landscaping, sodding and other such work, the person or persons performing such work sha11 deposit with the City Engineer the sum of seventy- five dollars ($75.00) per 10,000 square feet or fraction thereof of pazcel area for work in conjunction with the construeting of a new house or new building, and the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per 20,000 square feet or fraction thereaf of parcel area for re-landscaping. (1) This deposit shall be used for checking of plans, establishmg finished grades, where necessary, and inspection and/or surveys. Costs shall be calculated at forty-five dollars ($45.00) per hour for the City Engineer or Assistant City Engineer and thirty dollars ($30.00) per hour per man for the field crew, for single family lots and sixty dollars ($60.00) per hour for the City Engineer or Assistant City Engineer and forty dollars ($40.00) per hour per man for all other parcels. (2) If work does not conform to the approved plans and the deficiencies are not conected within fifteen days after the request by the City Engineer, the City Engineer shall cause the deficiencies to be corrected as provided under Section 1353.13 and 1353.14.