Yuba County Municipal Code Art. 5 Fees

On buildings, structures, electrical, gas, mechanical, and plumbing systems or alterations requiring a permit, a fee for each permit shall be paid as required, in accordance with the schedule as established by the Yuba County Board of Supervisors and contained in Title XIII of the Yuba County Ordinance Code. Where a specific fee has not been identified or listed in the fee matrix tables, fees for services shall be applied per the department's hourly rate as stated in Section 10.05.510 below.

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Any work which requires the issuance of a permit, including but not limited to, pre-inspections, department routing clearances, plan check services, permit issuance and required inspections shall have a corresponding fee applied to the permit process. Where a specific fee has not been identified, the Building Official shall first estimate the amount of time necessary to perform the required duties to meet code requirements and then apply the current hourly rate as listed in Title XIII of the Yuba County Ordinance Code.

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A permit shall not be valid until the fees prescribed by this Code, as listed in Title XIII of the Yuba County Ordinance Code have been paid, nor shall an amendment to a permit be released until additional fees, if any, have been paid.

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The applicant for a permit shall provide an estimated permit value at time of application. Permit valuations shall include total value of work, including materials and labor, for which the permit is being issued, such as electrical, gas, mechanical, plumbing equipment and permanent systems. If, in the opinion of the Building Official, the valuation is underestimated on the application, the permit valuation shall be set using the permit valuation table as set by the Building Official.

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Any person who commences any work on a building, structure, electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing system before obtaining the necessary permits and where a Stop Work Notice has been issued pursuant to Section 10.05.710B, the permittee shall be subject to a fee, as listed in Title XIII of the Yuba County Ordinance Code, that shall be in addition to the required permit fees.

Where it is necessary for the Building Official to enforce various provisions of this Code, the Yuba County Ordinance Code or any state or federal laws, the Building Official shall keep an itemized accounting of cost related to enforcement. The cost of enforcement shall become the responsibility of property owner of the property on which the violation occurred.

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The payment of the fee for the construction, alteration, removal or demolition for work done in connection to or concurrently with the work authorized by a building permit shall not relieve the applicant or holder of the permit from the payment of other fees that are prescribed by the Yuba County Ordinance Code or any other state or federal law.

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The Building Official is hereby authorized to issue a permit prior to the collection of all fees associated with development where the Yuba County Ordinance Code specifically authorizes the deferment of certain fees.

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(a) The Building Official may authorize a full refund of any fee paid which was erroneously paid or collected. The Building Official may authorize a refund of not more than 80 percent of the permit fee paid where no work has been done under the permit issued in accordance with this Code. The Building Official may authorize a refund of not more than 80 percent of the plan review fee paid when an application for a permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn or canceled by the applicant before any plan review has been completed.

(b) The Building Official shall not authorize the refund of any fee paid where the request for refund is received 180 days or more after the original date of the payment of the fee and the permit is considered null and void or abandoned.

(c) The Building Official shall not authorize the refund of any fee paid to any person who is not the original person who paid the fee, except where the original person who paid the fee provides a request that contains a written authorization releasing the refund to a different recipient.

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Pursuant to Resolution No. 1999-22, adopted by the Yuba County Board of Supervisors on February 2, 1999, fees imposed by this Code and listed in Title XIII of the Yuba County Ordinance Code shall not be waived except that where an incident is officially declared to be a local emergency, the Board of Supervisors may, conditionally or not, waive fees established by County Ordinance otherwise chargeable to victims of such an incident and directly related to such victims' recovery from the incident.

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