[Adopted 4-28-1992 by Ord. No. 92-05]
The purpose of this article is to assure, through
appropriate administrative action, that County requirements for payments,
actions or filings relating to obligations due to or requirements
by Kent County for real property within Kent County are properly complied
with by the equitable and legal owners thereof before additional County
involvement with said parcels occurs.
A.Â
Prior to any administrative agency or official of
Kent County charged with evaluation and approval of any license or
permit required so that a legal or equitable owner of real property
located in Kent County may utilize County services or otherwise involve
Kent County officers, agents or employees to permit any use of such
real property approving or issuing any license, permit or other indication
of approval, that administrative agency or official shall make reasonable
effort to determine that no payments, actions or filings related to
obligations due to or requirements by Kent County for the use of that
parcel of real property remain incomplete or in violation of Kent
County requirements.
B.Â
Parcel owners who may have taxes owed to the County
must have written approval from the Kent County Receiver of Taxes
regarding an acceptable payment plan for those taxes in arrears before
any building permit or land use application for that parcel can be
accepted by the Kent County Planning Services Department, with a limit
of three parcels under this plan.
[Added 5-28-2002 by Ord. No. 02-14[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also redesignated
former Subsection B as Subsection C.
C.Â
If any such noncomplying or incomplete payments, actions
or filings are determined to exist, then the administrative agency
or official shall, in writing, deny the license, permit or other form
of approval until such existing requirement for payment, action or
filing has been fully complied with or completed as to that parcel,
identifying in that written denial the payment, action or filing to
be completed or complied with. Failure by the appropriate administrative
agency or official to issue such written denial within five working
days from receipt of application shall enable the applicant to receive
the license, permit or other approval for which application was made.
Any applicant for a license, permit or other
form of approval who receives the aforesaid written denial of a license,
permit or other form of approval by an administrative agency or official
of Kent County may appeal that denial to the Kent County Levy Court
within 20 calendar days of such denial. The Levy Court, or its designee,
shall thereafter hold a hearing wherein said applicant shall be permitted
to give evidence that such payment, action or filing has been properly
carried out or otherwise show that such denial is not lawful as to
that applicant.
