RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING FORGIVING OF PERMIT FEES.DOCX

RESOLUTION
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RESOLUTION OF DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
TO FORGIVE/WAIVE STALE DATED BUILDING PERMIT FEES
          WHEREAS, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has organized and staffed 
the Planning and Development Department (Department) for the purpose of issuing and 
administering building permits in unincorporated Maricopa County; pursuant to the 
International Building Code and Section 208 of the Maricopa County Local Additions and 
Addenda adopted by the Board; and, 
WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance and administration of building permits, 
the Department is authorized to charge fees for permits and other services provided by 
the Department; and, 
WHEREAS, from time to time, applications for building permits are processed but 
all of the required fees are not paid, resulting in accounts receivable for the Department; 
and,
WHEREAS, the unpaid building permit fees are not liens against the property, 
meaning if the property is subsequently sold, the purchaser would be unaware that these 
fees are owed; and,
WHEREAS, if the fees are substantial, they may thwart the ability of a prospective 
purchaser to purchase and/or develop the property; and
WHEREAS, there comes a time where these fees become stale and uncollectable, 
other than if the Department were to insist that a subsequent owner pay the fees as a 
precondition to development of the property; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to A.R.S. §§11-251 (1)), the Board desires to delegate and 
empower the Director with certain duties, powers and authority, all as more fully set forth 
below in furtherance of forgiving the collection of stale building permit fees.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors hereby 
delegates to the Director authority to forgive fees in connection with applications for 
building permits under the following conditions:
1. The date the Department closed or terminated the application for building 
permit is ten (10) or more years from the date the Director will forgive the fees; 
and

2. The current record owner of the property for which the fee is owed is a bona-
fide third purchaser for value in the chain of title of the property owner at the 
time the application for building permit was filed.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this authority is delegated pursuant to A.R.S. 
§§11-251 (1).
UNANIMOUSLY PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Maricopa County Board of
Supervisors, Maricopa County, Arizona, this     day of      , 2020.
Clint Hickman, Chairman
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Attest:
Fran McCarroll, Clerk of the Board
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Approved as to Form:
Deputy County Attorney 
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