The charges to be assessed and paid, and permits to be obtained by residents of the City of Osawatomie, in accordance with the adopted building code, shall be set by an annual fee resolution.

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  Where a code has been adopted by the City of Osawatomie for which no fee schedule is shown in the annual fee resolution, the fee required shall be in accordance with the schedule established by the International Building Code incorporated by reference in Section 4-202.  The determination of value or valuation under any of the provisions of these codes shall be made by the Code Official. "Value" or "valuation," as applied to a building and/or its building service equipment for the purpose of establishing permit fees, shall be the estimated cost to replace the building and its building service equipment in kind, based on current replacement costs as established by the Building Valuation Data Unit Cost Table or any other method deemed acceptable by the Code Official.  All fees shall be rounded off to the next whole dollar amount. Fees may be waived at the discretion of the City Manager during times of declared emergency.

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(a)   When submittal documents are required by the building code, a plan review fee shall be paid at the time of submitting the submittal documents for plan review. Said plan review fee shall be the amount charged by the City for its plan review subcontractor to do such review, or in cases where the Code Official, or other employee, is certified to do such review the amount charged will be determined by an hourly estimate at 175% of the reviewer’s hourly wage.  The Code Official may waive the plan review fee if it is determined that the work being performed is minor in nature and can be approved during field inspection of the work being performed.

(b)   When submittal documents are incomplete or changed so as to require additional plan review or when the project involves deferred submittal items as defined in the Building Code, additional plan review and permit fees may be charged.

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Whenever work for which a permit is required by the City has been commenced without first obtaining a permit, the permit may be continued, if all other circumstances and requirements are complete, by paying a fee established in the City’s annual fee resolution.

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(a)   A reinspection fee may be assessed for each inspection or reinspection when such portion of work for which inspection is called is not complete, when corrections called for are not made, when approved plans are not provided for inspections or when access is not provided when inspections have been requested. 

(b)   This Section is not to be interpreted as requiring reinspection fees the first time a job is rejected for failure to comply with the requirements of the City Building Code, but as controlling the practice of calling for inspections before the job is ready for such inspection or reinspection.

(c)   Reinspection fees may be assessed for the following conditions:

(1)   When work for which an inspection was requested by the permittee or an agent of the permittee is not ready for inspection;

(2)   When corrections called for are not made;

(3)   Failure to provide access on the date for which inspection is requested;

(4)   Failure to provide the approved plans for the job when required for inspection purposes;

(5)   For deviating from approved plans requiring the approval of the Code Official;

(6)   For failure to post the address or identify the premises resulting in an inspector being unable to find the location of the requested inspection.

(d)   To obtain a reinspection when a reinspection fee has been assessed, the applicant shall pay the reinspection fee in accordance with the fee schedule adopted by the City. In instances where reinspection fees have been assessed, additional inspection of the work will not be performed until the required fees have been paid. Work requiring approval shall not be concealed until approval has been obtained.

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(a)   The Code Official may authorize refunding of a fee that was erroneously paid or collected.

(b)   The Code Official may authorize 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 Code.

(c)   The Code Official may authorize refunding of not more than eighty percent (80%) of the plan review fee paid when an application for permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn or canceled before any examination time has been expended.

(d)   The Code 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.

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The payment of the fee for the construction, alteration, removal or demolition of work done in connection with 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 law.

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Unpaid fees that have been assessed and remain unpaid at the completion of a project shall be reported to the City Clerk, and the City Clerk shall, at the time of certifying other taxes, certify the unpaid fees and extend the same on the tax roll.

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