A. Permit Fees: The fee for each sign permit shall be as adopted by the city council.
B. 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 upon request by the applicant showing that circumstances beyond the control of the applicant have prevented action from being taken. No application shall be extended more than once. In order to renew action on an application after expiration, the applicant shall resubmit plans and pay a new plan review fee.
C. Work Commenced Without Permit:
1. Investigation: Whenever any work for which a permit is required by this title has been commenced without first obtaining said permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for such work.
2. Fee: A penalty fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be collected whether or not a permit is then or subsequently issued. The penalty fee shall be equal to the amount of the permit fee required by this title. The payment of such penalty fee shall not exempt any person from compliance with all other provisions of this title nor from any penalty prescribed by law.
D. Fee Refunds:
1. The building official may authorize the refunding of any fee paid hereunder which was erroneously paid or collected.
2. The building official may authorize the refunding of not more than eighty percent (80%) of the permit fee paid when no work has been done under a permit issued in accordance with this title.
3. 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. (Ord. 52-09, 10-19-2009)
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