(A) Review fees. All fees collected by the Plat Officer shall be deposited into the general corporate fund of county. The following fees shall apply:
(1) The review fee for preliminary plats and minor subdivision plat shall be $400 a meeting plus $25 per lot.
(2) The review fee for final plats shall be $300 a meeting and no charge for lots.
(3) If a request for a meeting other than the regular meeting of the Planning and Subdivision Committee as established by Board rules, the applicant shall reimburse the county for the expenses of the committee meeting. The meeting must comply with the Open Meetings Act.
(B) Security requirements.
(1) General.
(a) In order to insure that the work will be completed, letters of credit, cash or certificates of deposit with a federally insured bank or Savings and Loan Association must cover all engineering improvements, which are proposed in conjunction with a new subdivision. In addition, the same types of security will be required to insure that the roads in a new subdivision will be maintained until the County Engineer has accepted them. If a letter of credit is submitted as security, it must be substantially in the form that is set forth in Appendix G and must be clean, non-declining, and irrevocable, issued by a federally insured bank or Savings and Loan Association.
(b) At the time letters of credit are submitted, the owners/developer shall notify the County Engineer in writing as to the name and address of the Professional Engineer who will establish lines and grades and exercise general supervision as construction progresses.
(2) Amount of security. The subdivider shall post good and sufficient security with the County Clerk, copies of the same to the Plat Officer, County Engineer, and Subdivision and Planning Committee, in the amount of 150% of the engineer’s estimate of cost to insure completion of the improvements. In addition, the maintenance security shall be in the amount of 15% of the amount posted for construction.
(3) Release of security.
(a) No portion of either the construction or maintenance security will be released as the work progresses, but the entire amount deposited must be retained until all work covered by the security is satisfactorily completed.
(b) Prior to the release of construction security of subdivision improvement, the engineer in charge of construction of such improvements will be required to certify that all improvements have been completed in accordance with the approved engineering plans and specifications on file.
(c) Such certification shall cover all engineering aspects of the development, including but not limited to, road, detention/retention, grading, filling, and any topographic changes. Certification shall be in writing, submitted to and approved by the County Engineering prior to release of securities.
(d) The maintenance security shall be held by the county for a period of 18 months after the final completion of subdivision improvements as a guarantee against any defect in the material or workmanship furnished in connection with such improvement latent in character and not discernable at the time of certification of completion of such improvement, and to guarantee against any damage to such improvements by reason of settling of the ground base, or foundations, thereof. After the termination of such 18-month period, such deposit shall be refunded to the depositor, if no defects have developed. If defects have developed, then the balance of such deposit after reimbursement to the county for any amounts expended by it in the curing of such defects shall be paid to the depositor. A certificate from the County Clerk hereof that no delinquent general taxes and that all special assessments constituting a lien on the whole or any part of the land to be subdivided have been paid.
(4) Letters of credit. When letters of credit are used to meet the requirements of the chapter, the form in Appendix G shall be used.
(Ord. 0-2005.4, passed 11-8-2005)