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The Building Commissioner shall have the authority, pursuant to Section 2-22-040, to impose document review fees rather than the inspection or reinspection fees specified in this Code, which are assessed for annual, semiannual and periodic inspections, code compliance inspections, permit inspections, license inspections or other inspections by the Department of Buildings of any type required or authorized by this Code. The document review fee may be authorized upon submission to the Commissioner of such documents, as the Commissioner may require, which indicate that in a particular instance an inspection by the Department of Buildings is not necessary or that such inspection may be undertaken pursuant to the mandate of, rather than by, the department. Such documents may include reports, photographs, maintenance agreements, contracts, schedules and sworn affidavits regarding the item which is subject to inspection. When the Building Commissioner accepts such documents in lieu of inspection, a document review fee of one-half the applicable inspection fee shall be assessed.
Nothing in this section shall preclude the Building Commissioner from requiring an inspection mandated by this Code to be performed and assessing the applicable fee for such inspection.
For purposes of this section, the term “inspection” shall also include reinspections.
(Prior code § 46-1.1; Added Coun. J. 7-12-90, p. 18289; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. III, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 9-14-16, p. 31143, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 11-21-17, p. 61755, Art. I, § 2)