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<section article="glg" article_name="Local Government" number="20-128" title_number="20" title_name="Taxes and Development Impact Fees" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Tax Procedures">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Development excise tax” means an excise tax imposed by a county or municipality on the construction or improvement of a building.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Development impact fee” means a fee imposed by a county or municipality for the purpose of financing any of the capital costs of additional or expanded public works, improvements, and facilities required to accommodate new construction or development.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Residential real estate project” includes a mixed–use development that includes residential units.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section applies only to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a county that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is a charter county that imposes, by law, development impact fees, surcharges, or development excise taxes;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is a code county with public local laws that require the payment of development impact fees, surcharges, or development excise taxes; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is a commission county that:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>has been authorized to enact development impact fees, surcharges, or development excise taxes; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>has enacted, by local law, development impact fees, surcharges, or development excise taxes; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a municipality that imposes, by local law, development impact fees, surcharges, or development excise taxes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, any development excise tax or development impact fee imposed on a residential real estate project may not be collected until after:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>construction of the residential real estate project is complete; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>all requirements for a certificate of occupancy, occupancy permit, or other local equivalent for the residential real estate project have been met.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A development excise tax or development impact fee imposed on a residential real estate project may be collected as a precondition to conducting a final inspection, but not more than 30 days before the date of the inspection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>This subsection does not apply to the collection of a development excise tax or development impact fee that was imposed on a residential real estate project to finance a county debt that was incurred on or before January 1, 2026.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Notwithstanding any other law, a county or municipality that imposes a development excise tax or development impact fee on a residential real estate project may deny, withhold, or revoke a certificate of occupancy, occupancy permit, or other local equivalent if the development excise tax or development impact fee is not paid within a reasonable time period set by the county or municipality.</text>
  </level>
</section>
