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governmental capacities only, or by religious or charitable corporations in the <br />conduct of their regular religious or charitable functions. <br /> <br />Sec. 3.18.020. Imposition and payment of fee. <br /> A. Every fee payor shall pay, prior to and as a condition of obtaining a <br />building permit, a community investment fee. The community investment fee shall <br />be paid to the building official in the amount of Seventy-Two Cents ($0.72) per <br />square foot of building floor area. Floor area may be determined from the plans and <br />specifications submitted for approval to the building official as part of the <br />application for a building permit. <br /> B. The community investment fee shall be due and payable at the time <br />that the building permit is issued. Under no circumstances shall the building official <br />issue a building permit unless and until the community investment fee as calculated <br />herein has been paid in full. <br /> <br />Sec. 3.18.030. Exceptions. <br /> A. The following shall be excepted from payment of the community <br />investment fee: <br /> 1. Minor alterations or expansions not exceeding twenty-five percent of <br /> the maximum occupancy or size of the existing building or structure; <br /> 2. Construction of a accessory structure; <br /> 3. Replacement of a building or structure with a comparable new <br /> building or structure which does not increase the maximum <br /> occupancy level; and <br /> 4. Public and nonprofit structures. <br /> B. Any claim of exception under section 3.18.030.A must be made no <br />later than the time of application for a building permit. <br /> <br />Sec. 3.18.040. Collection of fees. <br /> All community investment fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be <br />paid into one or more interest-bearing accounts of the city. Such accounts may be <br />within existing funds of the city, provided the same are accounted for separately and <br />clearly identify the aggregate amount of collected community investment fees. Any <br />interest income earned on community investment fees shall be credited to the <br />account in which such fees are deposited. The treasurer shall account separately for <br />all receipts and disbursements to and from any community investment fee account <br />and shall not commingle any part of the monies in such accounts with other funds of <br />the city. <br /> <br />Sec. 3.18.050 Use of fees. <br /> A. The city shall use community investment fees for the sole purpose of <br />acquiring, constructing, and making capital improvements to public facilities, and to <br />public facility sites, which activities may include, by way of example and not <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />