A. The Building Official shall account for all fees paid under this title for any building, mobile home placement, manufactured home placement, or factory-built unit placement. All fees collected shall be deposited in the Town’s general fund, unless otherwise specified by the Town Council.

B. The estimated value of work shall be determined by the Building Official generally in accordance with the annually updated building standards valuation data published by the International Code Council, and subject to subsection (C) of this section. Under the building standards valuation, the average costs per square foot of residential and commercial buildings are estimated each year with regional modifiers. The regional modifier is multiplied by the listed cost per square foot to determine the adjusted cost of constructing an average building in that region.

C. The valuation data published by the ICC may be modified at the discretion of the Building Official, based upon local conditions and subject to the prior approval of the City Manager; provided, that the Building Official’s discretion shall be limited to plus or minus ten percent (10%) of the ICC’s annually published Building Valuation Data.

D. The ICC Building Valuation Data may be relied upon by the Building Official for building permit fees and for assessing use taxes in accordance with this code.

E. If the Building Official discovers any person undertaking work in violation of this title, he shall notify the violator to cease such act or acts. Any person who commences any work on a building, structure, electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing system before obtaining the necessary permits shall be subject to a fee established by the Building Official that shall be in addition to the required permit fees. The amount of the fee shall be equal to the permit fee or one hundred dollars ($100.00), whichever is greater. Payment of this fee does not constitute approval of work already completed and does not assure that a permit will be issued for the project under consideration.

F. The costs and fees as set forth in Appendix A of the PMC shall apply to all permits. If the Building Official deems it appropriate, he may submit a modification of any fee to the Town Council who shall consider this modification at its next regular meeting. Any fee modification shall become effective upon approval by the Council, subject to the terms and conditions of the motion of approval. (Ord. 793 §2 (Exh. A), 2021)