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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

provide generally for fee schedules for new
construction, alteration, removal, demolition and
related activities to be established and revised,
from time to time, by the County Executive.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR MONTGOMERY
COUNTY, MARYLAND, that -

Sec. 1. Sec. 79-21, Chapter 79, titled "Building
Code," of the Montgomery County Code 1965, is hereby
repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

79-21. Sec. 118.2. Fees-Schedule.

No permit to begin work for new construction,
alteration, removal, demolition or other building
operation shall be issued until the fees authorized in
this section shall have been paid to the department nor
shall an amendment to a permit necessitating an
additional fee because of an increase in the estimated
cost of the work involved be approved until the
additional fee shall have been paid.

The County Executive shall establish and may revise,
from time to time, all fees authorized by this chapter by
written regulation adopted in accordance with the
procedure prescribed by law. Whenever such fees are
established and revised, the County Executive shall
promptly forward to the County Council a copy of the new
fee schedule for use in budgetary planning activities.
Such fees shall be in accordance with formulas based upon
criteria to include area or estimates cost of
construction or a minimal set fee per category, not to
exceed the cost of administering and enforcing this Code.
Such fees shall be established for, but not limited to,
the following:

1.         Building Permits;

2.        Plan Revision;

3.        Alterations;

4.        Commercial Awnings;

5.        Demolition;

6.    Oil, Gasoline and Fuel Tanks;

7.    Installation and/or Inspection of Elevators;

8.    Installation of Automatic Sprinkler Systems;