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 Hialeah Gardens
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 46. TAXATION AND FINANCE
 Article V. IMPACT FEES

  § 46-149. Public safety impact fee imposed.  

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  • (a)

    All development is deemed to create an impact and therefore create a demand for increased public safety service capacity. As such, the cost of new facilities should be borne by new users to the extent new uses require new facilities. Therefore, any application for a building permit for development activity within the city after the effective date of the ordinance from which this article derives shall be subject to the imposition of a public safety impact fee in the manner and amount set forth in this article. Any person who, after the effective date of this article, seeks to develop land located in the city by applying for a building permit to develop such land shall be required to pay a public safety impact fee in the manner and amount set forth in this article.

    (b)

    No building permit shall be issued by the building department until payment has been received for the required impact fee. Payment shall be by cash, cashier's check or money order, payable to the city.

    (c)

    Valid building permits issued prior to the effective date of this article and which have not expired or been revoked will not be subject to an impact fee. Permits which have been applied for but have not been issued prior to the effective date of this article will require payment of an impact fee.

    (d)

    If a building permit encompassing feepaying development expires or is revoked prior to final inspection, the feepayer shall be entitled to a refund without interest of the impact fee which was paid as a condition for the building permit, less the five percent general administrative charge. If there is a reissuance of the permit, the feepayer shall pay the impact fee in effect at the time the new building permit is issued. If a refund is authorized but not issued before the reissuance of the building permit, the amount of the refund shall be retained by the city and the feepayer shall pay the remainder of the impact fee due for the new permit. The feepayer shall be required to submit a written request for refund to the building official or code compliance officer before a refund can be authorized.

(Ord. No. 90-08, § 4, 4-10-90; Ord. No. 2001-09, 6-19-01)