Please see MTMC code reference below item C for refund information regarding building permits.

15.05.220 Permit fees.

A. Permit fees partly or fully pay for City services to ensure development is appropriately planned, built, installed, inspected, or otherwise carried out consistent with applicable codes. Permit fees are established pursuant to MTMC 3.150.090. Whenever a permit is required under this chapter, the appropriate fees shall be paid to the City.

B. Whenever any work for which a permit is required by this code has been commenced without first obtaining said permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for such work. The Building Official may require the collection of an investigation fee, in addition to the permit fee, in an amount equal to the permit fee required by this code. Payment of the investigation fee does not vest the illegal work with any legitimacy, nor does it establish any right to a permit for continued development of that project.

C. The Building Official may authorize the refunding of: (1) 100 percent of any fee erroneously paid or collected; (2) up to 75 percent of the permit fee paid when no work has been done under a permit issued in accordance with this code; and (3) up to 75 percent of the plan review fee paid when an application for a permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn or canceled before any plan review is done. The Building Official shall not authorize refunding of any fee paid except on written application filed by the original permittee not later than 180 days after the date of fee payment. (Ord. 2453 § 1, 2007).