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imposition of fees or penalties. (2) The city manager may establish rules pursuant to section 2.019 of this code for implementation of sections 3.650 to 3.680 of this code. Such rules may include, but are not limited to, provisions necessary for eliciting information needed to administer the occupancy fee provisions, inducing prompt and full payment of the fee, preventing fraud or evasion in reporting or payment of the fee, procedures to adequately apprise property owners of their obligations under sections 3.650 to 3.680, provisions that further define what constitutes occupied property, residential use, and other terms used in this ordinance, procedures for resolution of disputed designations, and imposing sanctions conducive to compliance with the rules and this code. (3) The .city manager or designee .may obtain from each property owner the information necessary. or convenient for determining the accuracy of the occupancy fee report. Each person subject to the fee shall keep available and open for inspection by the city, such records as may be necessary in making such determination. 3.660 Downtown Services District Occupancy Fee -Payment. (1) The occupancy fee imposed pursuant to section 3.650 of this code shall be payable in advance on a quarterly basis. The quarters to which this fee applies shall commence July 1, 1994, and every October 1, January 1, April 1, and July 1 thereafter, to and .including the quarter commencing April 1, 1997. (2) Payments shall be submitted, together with the occupancy fee report form, by no later than the 10th day of the first month of each quarter. (3) Payments submitted after the due date, or submitted without the required occupancy report form shall be subject to a delinquency penalty and interest as set forth in section 3.665 of this code. Payments shall be considered timely submitted if personally delivered to the address indicated on the occupancy report form or postmarked on or before the due date. 3.665 Downtown Services District Occupancy Fee -Penalties and Interest. (1) Interest at the rate of one and one-half percent per month from the first day of the quarter to the date paid shall be imposed on payments not received by the due date established in section 3.660. (2) A person who has not been granted an extension of time under section .3.675 of this code and who fails to file the occupancy fee report and pay the fee due by the date due, or by the end of a granted extension of time, shall be required to pay, a late penalty of an additional ten percent on the total fee, plus interest. (3) A penalty in the amount of 15 percent of the actual amount due during a quarter shall be imposed for failure to correct an underestimated payment prior to the. end of the quarter. (4) In addition to the interest and/or any penalties imposed under subsections (1), (2} or (3) of this section, or section 3.670, the city manager or designee may impose an administrative civil penalty pursuant to section 2.018 of this code for failure to Ordinance - 3