2018 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 153A - Counties
Article 18 - Planning and Regulation of Development.
§ 153A-354 - Financial support; fee collection, accounting, and use limitation.
153A-354. Financial support; fee collection, accounting, and use limitation.
(a) A county may appropriate any available funds for the support of its inspection department. It may provide for paying inspectors fixed salaries, or it may reimburse them for their services by paying over part or all of any fees collected. It may fix reasonable fees for issuing permits, for inspections, and for other services of the inspection department.
(b) When an inspection, for which the permit holder has paid a fee to the county, is performed by a marketplace pool Code-enforcement official upon request of the Insurance Commissioner under G.S. 143-151.12(9)a., the county shall promptly return to the permit holder the fee collected by the county for such inspection. This applies to the following inspections: plumbing, electrical systems, general building restrictions and regulations, heating and air-conditioning, and the general construction of buildings.
(c) All fees collected under this section shall be used for support of the administration and activities of the inspection department and for no other purpose. (1937, c. 57; 1941, c. 105; 1947, c. 719; 1951, c. 651; 1953, c. 984; 1955, cc. 144, 942, 1171; 1957, cc. 415, 456, 1286, 1294; 1959, cc. 399, 940, 1031; 1961, cc. 763, 884, 1036; 1963, cc. 639, 868; 1965, cc. 243, 371, 453, 494, 846; 1967, cc. 45, 73, 113; c. 495, ss. 1, 3; 1969, cc. 675, 918; c. 1003, s. 7; c. 1010, s. 4; c. 1064, ss. 1, 4, 5; c. 1066, s. 1; 1973, c. 822, s. 1; 2015-145, s. 7.1; 2018-29, s. 3(a).)
