(A) Permit fees.
(1) The applicant for a permit shall provide an estimated construction value at the time of application, except for fixed fees. Permit valuations shall include total value of all construction work, including materials and labor, for which the permit is being issued, such as gas, mechanical, plumbing equipment, and permanent systems. The Building Official shall make the final determination of value.
(2) Valuation is based on the most current valuation provided by the ICC via the State Building Codes and Standards Division, or contract bid price. The Building Official shall make the final determination.
(3) The city’s fees are in addition to any surcharges or other fees charged by the state.
(B) Exceptions. Building permit valuations for the following structures shall be based on the valuation of on-site work only, with an investigation fee in an amount as set by Council from time to time and a surcharge in an amount as set by Council from time to time:
(1) Manufactured homes containing a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) certification;
(2) Prefabricated buildings with a State Building Codes and Standards Division prefabrication label; and
(3) Industrialized/modular buildings with an Industrialized Building Commission (IBC) label.
(C) Plan review fees. When submittal documents are required by the Building Official, a plan review fee shall be paid. The plan review fee shall be 65% of the building permit fee. The plan review fees are separated fees from the permit fees, and are in addition to the permit fees. Plan review fees for similar plans falling under Minn. Rules part 1300.0160, subpart 6, shall be 25% of the building permit fee.
(D) Commercial fees. The applicant for a permit shall provide an estimated construction value at the time of application, except for fixed fees. Permit valuations shall include total value of all construction work, including materials and labor, for which the permit is being issued, such as gas, mechanical, plumbing equipment, and permanent systems. The Building Official shall make the final determination of value.
(E) Residential fees. The applicant for a permit shall provide an estimated construction value at the time of application, except for fixed fees. Permit valuations shall include total value of all construction work, including materials and labor, for which the permit is being issued, such as gas, mechanical, plumbing equipment, and permanent systems. The Building Official shall make the final determination of value.
(F) Payment of fees. A permit shall not be issued until the fees prescribed by the city have been paid.
(G) Work commencing before permit issuance. If the work of which a permit is required by the code has been commenced without first obtaining a permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for the work. An investigation fee shall be collected, and is in addition to the required permit fee, and equal to the permit fee.
(H) Fee refunds.
(1) The Building Official may authorize refunding of any fees paid hereunder which was erroneously paid or collected.
(2) The Building Official may authorize refunding of not more than 80% of the permit fee or plan review fee paid when no work has been done under a permit issued.
(3) The Building Official shall not authorize refunding of any fee paid, except on the written application filed by the original permittee, not later than 180 days after the date of fee payment.
(I) Reinspections.
(1) A reinspection fee may be assessed for each inspection or reinspection when the portion of work for which inspection is called for is not complete, or when corrections called for are not made.
(2) In instances where reinspection fees have been assessed, no additional inspections of the work will be performed until the required fees have been paid.
(J) Expiration.
(1) Every permit issued by the Building Official shall expire by limitation, and become null and void if the building or work authorized by the permit is not commenced within 180 days from the date of the permit, or if the building or work authorized by the permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after the work is commenced for a period of 180 days. Before the work can be recommenced, a new permit shall be first obtained to do so, and the fee therefor shall be one-half the amount required for a new permit for the work, excluding the plan review fee, provided no changes have been made, or will be made, in the original plans and specification for the work.
(2) The Building Official may grant, in writing, one or more extensions of time for periods not more than 180 days each. The extension shall be requested, in writing, and justifiable cause demonstrated.
(K) Expiration of plan review. Applications for which no permit is issued within 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. In order to renew action on an application after expiration, the applicant shall resubmit plans and pay a new plan review fee. In the event of a hardship, and at the discretion of the Building Official, a new plan review fee may be waived.
(Ord. 263, passed 10-12-2009)