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are multiple owners identified as contributing to FOG causing such obstruction, the Public Works Director will apportion the cost of the cleanup, maintenance or repair costs on a prorated basis, based on each owner's percentage share of the average total sanitary sewer charges for all such owners. Further, should inspection, testing or other sampling activity by the City confirm that any property owner is contributing FOG (including other harmful ingredients) and is causing the repair or excessive maintenance activity to maintain the sanitary sewer system, the Public Works Director may require retrofitting of the structure with grease interceptors or grease traps, including testing facilities and access thereto sufficient to resolve the problem; 2. The costs for curing any private sewer lateral failures and sewer system overflows, including cleaning and other maintenance, caused in whole or in part by FOG introduced into the sanitary sewer system by any FSE or FM/P, alone or in conjunction with any other party, are the responsibility of the owner of the FSE or FM/P and the owner of any structure in which the FSE or FM/P contributing the FOG to the sanitary sewer system is located. M. Compliance. Compliance with the grease control program shall be evaluated based on the following criteria: 1. All FSE and SM/P who are implementing and documenting BMPs and performing and documenting grease retention unit cleaning at the required frequency will be considered to be in full compliance with this policy. 2. When an obstruction and/or sanitary sewer overflow occur due to the presence of FOG, the records of all FSE or FM/P that discharge to the affected sanitary sewer line may be reviewed in order to determine the responsible party. Any FSE or FM/P found to be in noncompliance with the required grease retention unit cleaning frequency shall be deemed a "responsible party" for cost recovery. Payment of cost recovery does not preclude further enforcement actions for noncompliance as per the FOG enforcement response plan. N. Penalties and assessments for FOG program noncompliance. In the event that the owner of an FSE or FM/P or the owner of any structure in which an FSE or FM/P is located is found to have failed to comply with the provisions of this division, the following penalties or assessments or both maybe applied: 1. For introduction of FOG into any sanitary sewer system resulting in obstruction to said system or in a sanitary sewer overflow: a. The city may disconnect water and sewer service to the FSE or FM/P and to the structure in which the FSE or FM/P is located; b. City may impose a fine per the City's Fee Schedule until such owner demonstrates that the subject FSE or FM/P or structure is in compliance with the requirements of this section; 2. For failure to maintain records as required by the BMP program for any FSE or FM/P, or failing or refusing to timely comply with any request for records required to be provided to the Public Works Director, a fine per the City's Fee Schedule until such records are provided; 3. For failure to pass the FOG inspection due to lack of or ineffective FOG equipment the Public Works Director may: a. Require the subject FSE or FM/P to install additional FOG equipment as necessary to resolve the problem;