§ 15.12.040. Fees

A. General. Fees shall be assessed in accordance with the provisions of this section or shall be as set forth the fee schedule adopted by this jurisdiction by resolution of the city council.

B. Permit Fees. The fee for each permit shall be in accordance with the schedule established by the jurisdiction by resolution of the city council.

1. The determination of value or valuation under any of the provisions of these codes shall be made by the building official. The value to be used in computing the building permit and building plan review fees shall be the total value of all construction work for which the permit is issued as well as all finish work, painting, roofing, electrical, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, elevators, fire-extinguishing systems and other permanent equipment.

2. There will be a ten (10) percent administrative fee on all building permits issued by the city.

3. This fee will expire June 30, 1999.

C. Plan Review Fees. When submittal documents are required by Section 15.12.020(B), a plan review fee shall be paid at the time of the submittal documents for plan review. The plan review fee. shall be sixty-five (65) percent of the building permit fee as shown in Tables 3-A through 3-I.

The plan review fees specified in this section are separate fees from the permit fees specified in subsection B of this section and are in addition to the permit fees.

When submittal documents are incomplete or changed so as to require additional plan review or when the project involves deferred submittal items as defined in Section 15.12.020(B), an additional plan review fee shall be charged at the rate established by this jurisdiction.

D. Expiration of Plan Review. Applications for which no permit is issued within one hundred eighty (180) days following the date of application shall expire by limitation, and plans and other data submitted for review may thereafter be returned to the applicant or destroyed by the building official. The building official may extend the time for action by the applicant for a period not exceeding one hundred eighty (180) days on written request by the applicant showing that circumstances beyond the control of the applicant have prevented action from being taken. An application shall not be extended more than once. An applicant shall not be extended if this code or any other pertinent laws or ordinances have been amended subsequent to the date of application. In order to review action on an application after expiration, the applicant shall resubmit plans and pay a new plan review fee.

E. Investigation Fees—Work Without a Permit.

1. Investigation. Whenever work for which a permit is required by this code has been commenced without first obtaining a permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for such work.

2. Fee. An investigation fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be collected whether or not a permit is then or subsequently issued. The investigation fee shall be equal to the amount of the permit fee required by this code. The minimum investigation fee shall be the same as the minimum fee set forth in Tables 3-A through 3-H. The payment of such investigation fee shall not exempt an applicant from compliance with all other provisions of either this code or the Specialty Codes nor from the penalty prescribed by law.

F. Fee Refunds. The building official may authorize refunding of a fee paid hereunder which was erroneously paid or collected.

The building official may authorize refunding of not more than eighty (80) percent of the permit fee paid when no work has been done under a permit issued in accordance with this code.

The building official may authorize refunding of not more than eighty (80) percent of the plan review fee paid when an application for a permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn or canceled before any examination time has been expended.

The building official shall not authorize the refunding of any fee paid except upon written application filed by the original permittee not later than one hundred eighty (180) days after the date of fee payment.

(Prior code § 9.304)