Before an application will be processed, the applicant will
pay a nonrefundable application fee in an amount established by the
Town Board and reviewed annually.
The applicant must pay for all estimated expenses to be incurred
by the Township before an application will be processed. The Town
Board will determine estimated expenses within 30 days of the filing
of the application. The applicant will make such payments into an
escrow account with the Township. The prepayment amounts shall be
a credit toward the costs of the attorney, planners, engineers and
other professional consultants that the Township uses to review the
application, to prepare documents, to inspect the facility, to make
recommendations and to enforce this chapter; all such costs are the
obligation of the applicant, and the applicant must reimburse the
Township for such costs. All such costs, if not already paid by the
escrow, shall be paid by the applicant within 30 days of final action
on the matter by the Town Board. If such costs are less than the escrowed
amount, such escrow will be returned to the applicant within 30 days
of final action on the matter by the Town Board.
The applicant shall reimburse the Township for all out-of-pocket
expenses as incurred by the Township in the review of the initial
and review applications, public hearing, preparation of documents,
inspections and enforcement of this chapter, whether a permit is issued
or not.
The Town Board shall establish fees by ordinance for the issuance
of mineral extraction permits. All mines, including legal nonconforming
mines, will be assessed fees for the annual review and the cost of
enforcing this ordinance. The review fee shall be based on the previous
year's production in tons or yards times a dollar amount, with
an established minimum amount, and set by ordinance. Fees and expenses
must be paid at the time of issuance and thereafter on or before January
31 of each year for the permits that have not been terminated. Failure
to pay review fees and expenses shall be a violation of this chapter.
If additional inspections or enforcement actions are required, the
cost of that work will be assessed against the mine requiring the
work.
If in the future the state law enables the Town to impose a
host community fee, tax, mineral extraction charge or other governmental
imposition to compensate the Town for the effects of a mineral extraction
facility, then the Township reserves the right to impose such fees,
taxes, charges or other governmental impositions on all mineral extraction
facilities, including, but not limited to, those that exist at the
time the fees, taxes, charges or impositions are established.