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(3) Prior to issuing a land -disturbance approval, the city shall obtain evidence of permit coverage when such coverage is required. (4) When an application that was previously disapproved is re -submitted, the city shall determine whether the re -submitted application is complete within 15 days after receipt and shall act on the resubmitted application within 45 days after receipt. Sec. 11.1-7 Stormwater permit requirement; exemptions. (a) Except as provided in this article, no person may engage in any land -disturbing activity until a permit has been issued by the city in accordance with the provisions of this article and the Regulation. (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, the following activities are not required to comply with the requirements of this article unless otherwise required by federal law: (1) Minor land -disturbing activities, including home gardens and individual home landscaping, repairs, and maintenance work; (2) Installation, maintenance, or repair of any individual service connection; (3) Installation, maintenance, or repair of any underground utility line when such activity occurs on an existing hard surfaced road, street, or sidewalk, provided the land -disturbing activity is confined to the area of the road, street, or sidewalk that is hard surfaced; (4) Maintenance or repair of any septic tank line or drainage field unless included in an overall plan for land -disturbing activity relating to construction of the building to be served by the septic tank system; (5) Permitted surface or deep mining operations and projects, or oil and gas operations and projects conducted pursuant to Title 45.2 of the Code of Virginia; (6) Clearing of lands specifically for bona fide agricultural purposes; the management, tilling, planting, or harvesting of agricultural, horticultural, or forest crops; livestock feedlot operations; agricultural engineering operations, including construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dams, desilting basins, dikes, ponds, ditches, strip cropping, lister furrowing, contour cultivating, contour furrowing, land drainage, and land irrigation; or as additionally set forth by the Board in regulations. However, this exception shall not apply to harvesting of forest crops unless the area on which harvesting occurs is reforested artificially or naturally in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 11 (§ 10.1-1100 et seq. of the Code of Virginia) or is converted to bona fide agricultural or improved pasture use as described in subsection B of § 10.1-1163 of the Code of Virginia. (7) Installation of fence and sign posts or telephone and electric poles and other kinds of posts or poles unless in a designated Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area; (8) Shoreline erosion control projects on tidal waters when all of the land -disturbing activities are within the regulatory authority of and approved by local wetlands boards, the Marine Resources Commission, or the United States Army Corps of Engineers; however, any associated land that is disturbed outside of this exempted area shall remain subject to the VESMA and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto; (9) Repair or rebuilding of the tracks, rights-of-way, bridges, communications facilities, and other related structures and facilities of a railroad company; (10) Land -disturbing activities in response to a public emergency where the related work requires immediate authorization to avoid imminent endangerment to human health or the environment. In such situations, the city shall be advised of the disturbance within seven days of commencing the land - disturbing activity, and compliance with the administrative requirements of subsection (a) is required within 30 days of commencing the land -disturbing activity; and (11) Discharges to a sanitary sewer that are not from a land -disturbing activity. Page 13 of 27