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amount of the fee owed by him from the amounts remitted to a service supplier or that a telephone subscriber has failed to pay the amount of the fee for a period of four or more billing periods, or whenever the Finance Director deems it is in the best interest of the City, he shall relieve the service supplier of the obligation to collect fees due under this Chapter from certain named service users for specified billing periods and collect the fees directly from the telephone subscriber. 2. Telephone subscribers who willfully withhold the amount of the fee owed from the amounts remitted to a service supplier or who fail to pay any fees imposed by this Ordinance to the service supplier within four billing periods shall pay a penalty of fifteen percent (15%) of the amount of fees owed. 3. In addition to the penalties imposed in this subsection, any telephone subscriber who fails to remit fees and penalties within 30 days of the date the City of San Leandro mails notification that the City has assumed responsibility for the collection of fees due for specified billing periods, shall pay interest on the amount of the fee, exclusive of penalties, from the date on which the fee first became delinquent to the service supplier until payment in full is received by the Finance Director, plus an additional collection charge for each delinquent account in an amount to be determined by rules and regulations of the Finance Director. The Finance Director shall establish collection charges which reimburse the costs incurred by the City for collecting delinquent fees. Interest shall be paid at the rate of one percent (1%) per month or fraction thereof. 4. The penalties, interest and collection charges imposed in this subsection shall not be collected by the service supplier, but shall be determined and collected by the City. 5. Every penalty imposed and such interest as accrues under the provisions of this Section shall become a Chapter of the fee herein required to be paid. SEC. 2-16-255 Failure to Collect and Report Fee; Determination of Fee by Finance Director. If any service supplier willfully refuses to make, within the time provided in this Chapter, any report and remittance of fees collected from telephone subscribers or any portion thereof required by this Chapter, the Finance Director may inspect, audit, and copy records relevant and material to the service supplier's willful failure during the service supplier's regular business hours, upon written request and not less than five business days' notice. As soon as the Finance Director is able to procure facts and information upon which to base the assessment of any fee imposed by this Chapter collected by any service supplier who has willfully refused to make such report and remittance, the Finance Director shall proceed to determine and assess against such service supplier the fee, interest and penalties provided by this Chapter. In case such determination is made, the Finance Director shall give a notice of the amount so assessed ORDINANCE NO. 2004-015 12