[Adopted 12-8-1999 by Ord. No. 99-16]
As used in this article the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
DISABLED PERSON
A person who has the total and permanent inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment, including blindness, and shall include, but not be limited to, any resident of this state who is disabled pursuant to the Federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 416) or the Federal Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 (45 U.S.C. § 231 et seq.) or is rated as having a sixty-percent disability or higher pursuant to any federal law administered by the United States Veteran's Act. For purposes of this definition, "blindness" means central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting lens. An eye which is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20° shall be considered as having a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less.
A. 
No person shall be charged a construction permit fee or enforcing agency fee for any construction, reconstruction, alteration or improvement designed and undertaken solely to promote accessibility by disabled persons to an existing private structure or any of the facilities contained therein.
B. 
The Planning Board or Zoning Board shall waive application fees as the same relate to construction, reconstruction, alteration or improvements designed and undertaken solely to promote accessibility by disabled persons to an existing private structure or any of the facilities contained therein. In the discretion of the planning staff, escrows for professional fees also may be waived for this purpose.
C. 
A disabled person, or a parent or sibling of a disabled person, shall not be charged for a permit for any reasonable and necessary construction, reconstruction, alteration or improvement which promotes accessibility to his or her own living unit for such disabled person.