(A) Submission of fees. All filing, inspection, and engineering fees shall be submitted to the borough.
(B) Plan filing fee. A filing fee shall accompany the preliminary plan. No application shall be accepted or acted upon unless payment is made to the borough. The Borough Council shall create by resolution a schedule of fees to be paid by the subdivider or land developer to defray the cost of administering and processing of plans. The schedule of fees may be changed from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council.
(C) Review fees.
(1) Review fees shall include the reasonable and necessary charges by the borough’s professional consultants or engineer for review and report to the borough, and shall be set by resolution. Such review fees shall be reasonable and in accordance with the ordinary and customary charges by the Borough Engineer or consultant for similar service in the community, but in no event shall the fees exceed the rate or cost charged by the engineer or consultant to the borough when fees are not reimbursed or otherwise imposed on applicants.
(2) In the event the applicant disputes the amount of any such review fees, the applicant shall, within ten days of the billing date, notify the borough that such fees are disputed, in which case the borough shall not delay or disapprove a subdivision or land development application due to the applicant’s request over disputed fees.
(3) In the event that the borough and the applicant cannot agree on the amount of review fees which are reasonable and necessary, then the fees shall be recalculated and recertified by another professional engineer licensed as such in this state and chosen mutually by the borough and the applicant or developer. The estimate certified by the third engineer shall be presumed fair and reasonable and shall be the final estimate. In the event that a third engineer is so chosen, fees for the services of said engineer shall be paid equally by the borough and the applicant or developer.
(D) Payment of fees. An applicant shall, by filing a plan, be then obligated to pay the fees herein provided. The engineering fees required to be paid by this section shall be promptly submitted to the borough by the applicant upon the submission of bills therefor to the applicant from time to time by the Borough Council.
(Prior Code, Ch. 22, Pt. 3, § 302) (Ord. 2-2001, passed 7-2-2001)