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Charge or Credit Limits
The preceding Fee Adjustment Schedule will be applied to projects, with limits to a minimum and maximum
charges or credits as follows:
1. Small projects (less than or equal to a $100 permit fee or $10,000 construction value)
• Charges: By % on fee adjustment schedule
• Minimum charge: not less $25 per permit
• Maximum charge: no maximum
• Credits: no credit given
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Large projects (greater than a $100 permit fee or $10,000 construction value)
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Charges: By % on fee adjustment schedule
• Minimum charge: no minimum
• Maximum charge: not more than $90 per failed inspection
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Credits: By % on fee adjustment schedule
• Minimum credit: no minimum
• Maximum credit: to be calculated as follows:
- credit = (a-b) x $90, where
-“a” is 30% of total inspections
-“b” is the number of inspections failed
-difference times $90 per saved inspection
Responsible Parties for Fee Adjustments
The re-inspection fee schedule implemented April 1, 2000 (as amended by the BOCC on 9/18/02) will be applied to
all projects, large and small. The responsibility or conduit for charges and credits will be as follows:
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Whoever applies for and pays for the permit (permit applicant) will receive any fee adjustments at
issuance of CO, completion of the work or closeout of the job. These contractors will be responsible for the
project inspection failure rate of all sub-contractors working on the project.
For projects with multiple trades but no general contractor, a lead contractor, responsible for all
subcontractor’s code defect rates and any fee adjustment, will be assigned from the Small Project Lead
Contractor Schedule (available from E&BS)
On Commercial projects with multi-primes, where some work is beyond control of the permit applicant, the
general contractor and other prime contractors will have individual code defect rate responsibility,
unless they agree otherwise.
The reports will be based on code defect performance on the structure (per house, per project, etc) at the
completion of the work (at the Certificate of Occupancy stage).
For all other conditions not prescribed herein, the Director will propose responsibility for charges and
credits after consulting with the Code Compliance Task Force.
Benefits
The proposed program provides incentives for those contractors who minimize the use of inspectors’ time
to verify code compliant construction, in terms of credits applied to a contractors account (effectively
reduced permit fees).
Conversely, disincentives, up to and including a 50% increase in a project’s permit fee, will be levied
against those contractors whose projects produce code defect rates above 15%.
Together, incentives and disincentives should conserve inspector time, reduce our trades inspection
workload, and have a positive impact on our overall response time.
Other helpful links:
North Carolina Contractor Licensing Board:
https://www.nclbgc.org/
North Carolina Board of Architecture:
http://www.ncbarch.org/
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