Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

4.37.110 Information Confidential.
The information furnished or secured pursuant to this Chapter relative to gross sales or number of employees shall
be confidential only to the extent provided by State law. (Ord. 4719, 1991.)
4.37.120 Assessment Deemed Debt to City.
The amount of any assessment imposed by this chapter shall be deemed a debt to the City, and any person
carrying on any business without paying a assessment as herein required, shall be liable to an action in the name of
the City in any court of competent jurisdiction, for the amount of the assessment imposed on such business by this
chapter, together with all penalties then due thereon. (Ord. 4719, 1991.)
4.37.130 Failure to Pay Assessment - Determination of Assessment Due.
If any person fails or refuses to make within the time provided by this Chapter, any report and remittance of the
assessment or any portion thereof required by this chapter, the Finance Director shall proceed in such manner as he
may deem best to obtain facts and information on which to base his estimate of the assessment due. As soon as the
Finance Director procures such facts and information as he is able to obtain upon which to base the assessment of any
assessment imposed by this chapter and payable by any person who has failed or refused to make such report or
remittance, he shall proceed to determine and assess against such person the assessment and penalties provided for by
this chapter. In case such determination is made, the Finance Director shall give a notice of the amount so assessed
by serving it personally or by depositing it in the United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the person so
assessed at his last known place of address. Such person may, within ten (10) days of the serving or mailing of such
notice make application in writing to the Finance Director for a hearing on the amount assessed. If application by the
person for a hearing is not made within the time prescribed, the assessment and penalties determined by the Finance
Director shall become final and conclusive and immediately due and payable. If such application is made, the
Finance Director shall give not less than five (5) days written notice in the manner prescribed herein to the person to
show cause at the time and place fixed in said notice why said amount specified therein should not be fixed for such
assessment and penalties. At such hearing the person may appear and offer evidence why such specified assessment
and penalties should not be so fixed. After such hearing, the Finance Director shall determine the proper assessment
to be remitted and shall thereafter give written notice to the person in the manner prescribed herein of such
determination and the amount of such assessment and penalties. The amount determined to be due shall be payable
after fifteen (15) days. The decision of the Finance Director shall be final and conclusive. (Ord. 4719, 1991.)
4.37.140 Records - Inspection.
It shall be the duty of every person liable for the payment to the City of any assessment imposed by this chapter to
keep and preserve for a period of three (3) years all records as may be necessary to determine the amount of such
assessment as he may have been liable for, which records the Finance Director shall have the right to inspect at all
reasonable times. (Ord. 4719, 1991.)
4.37.145 Annual Assessment Report and Assessment Resolution.
The City Council hereby designates the Downtown Parking committee as the "advisory board" to prepare an
assessment report for each fiscal year and to forward such report to the City Council prior to the beginning of each
fiscal year. The City Council will consider such report and take those actions necessary to levy the annual PBIA
assessment as it may deem necessary and appropriate, all as described in more detail in "Parking and Business
Improvement Area Law of 1989." (Ord. 4719, 1991.)
4.37.150 Enforcement.
The City Finance Director shall enforce the provisions of this Chapter. (Ord. 4719, 1991.)
4.37.160 Boundaries.
The boundaries of the Downtown Parking and Business Improvement Area of 1999 and the various zones of
charge within the Area shall be as shown on a map on file with the City Clerk which map is entitled the "Parking and
Business Improvement Area of 1999 Map". (Ord. 5126, 1999; Ord. 4719, 1991.)
78-4 rev. 6/30/10