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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 44-92-14
of the
City Manager of the City of Eugene
ESTABLISIIING A FEE FOR PROCESSING CHECKS
RETURNED NON-SUFFICIENT FUNDS, OR ACCOUNT CLOSED
The City Manager of the City of Eugene finds as follows:
A. Under Section 2.515 of the Eugene Code, 1971, the Finance Officer has
the responsibility to receive, receipt and safely keep all moneys belonging to the City. Many
of the payments received by the City are in the form of a check, and on occasion checks are
returned unpaid because of non-sufficient funds in the payor's account or the account has been
closed.
B. Secti on 2.020 of the Eugene Code, 1971, authorizes the City Manager of
the City of Eugene to determine and set fees and charges to be imposed by the City for services,
goods, use of municipal property, and licenses and permits. In accordance with the procedures
set forth therein, on J an uary 4, 1993, I notified the Mayor and City Councilors that I intended
to establish a fee of $20.00 to be charged for checks returned to the City unpaid because of non-
sufficient funds in the payor's account or the account has been closed, as set forth in the Notice
of Intended Fee attached as Exhibit A thereto and incorporated therein by reference. The Notice
was also posted at two locations at City Hall on January 4, 1993, and made available for
interested persons at the offices of the City's Administrative Services Director, Aster Building,
Eugene, Oregon 97401. The Notice provided that written comments would be received thereon
for a period of 15 days from the first date of posting. No written comments were received
within the time provided in the Notice.
C. I find that the fee of $20.00 is consistent with applicable policies and
directives of the City Council, the amount charged by businesses for such checks, and is
necessary to recover the costs incurred by the City in reprocessing such checks and securing
payment thereon.
On the basis of these findings, I order that:
1. A fee in the amount of $20.00 is hereby established to be charged to the
payor for a check returned to the City unpaid because of non-sufficient funds in the payor's
account or the account has been closed.
2. The fee as established herein shall be applicable as of February 1, 1993.
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Dated this~l day of January, 1993.