Taunton Health Department

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Pursuant to M.G.L. Ch. 111, Sec. 31 and all other Massachusetts enabling statutes authorizing Boards of Health to SET FEES for licenses, permits, and services, the Taunton Board of Health hereby adopts and promulgates the following fee structure on January 6, 2003 at it’s regular monthly public meeting.  All fees shall become effective on January 6, 2003.

FOOD SERVICE

1. Food Service Establishments, one hundred dollars $100.00 per year. 
2. Restaurants, Lounges, Etc. $100.00 + $ .50 (fifty cents) per seat up to maximum charge of $300.00.
3. Catering Establishments, one hundred dollars per year ($100.00) Delivery Vehicles, twenty-five dollars.  ($25.00) per vehicle/per year.
4. Bakeries/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
5. Residential Kitchens/Establishment  ($100.00) per year.
6. Nursing Homes ($100.00) + $. 50 fifty cents per bed.
7. Church kitchens/thirty dollars ($30.00).
8. Pre-schools and Nursery Kitchens ($100.00) per year.
9. Mobile Canteens/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per vehicle/per year.
10. Mobile Canteen Service Centers/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.
11. Temporary Food Service License ($50.00) up to (14) consecutive days then annual permit required. The operator or organizer of the special event shall be responsible for compiling a list of food services or vendors at least two weeks prior to the special event for the Taunton Board of Health.  Each food service or vendor shall be permitted separately for the special event.  Special events are parades, festivals, fairs, circuses, or commemorative celebrations.
12. Public School cafeterias – free.
13. Soup Kitchens – free.

 RETAIL FOOD

14. Variety Stores – ($75.00) per year.
15.  Liquor Stores – ($75.00) per year.
16.  Supermarkets two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year – plus ($100.00) for/if Food Service applicable and all other applicable licenses.

 OTHER FOOD PERMITS AND FEES:

17. Frozen Desserts and Ice Cream/twenty-five dollars  ($25.00) per year.
18. Milk and Cream (M.G.L. Ch. 94, Sec. 41) ten dollars ($10.00) per year.
19.  Food Service Establishment Plan Review Fee/fifty dollars ($50.00).
20. Retail Food Establishment Plan Review Fee/fifty dollars ($50.00).
21. Bottling Establishments/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

TITLE V/WASTEWATER BOARD OF HEALTH PERMIT AND FEES:

22. Septic Pumpers and/or haulers/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per truck/per year.

23. Septic System Installers License/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year. 

24. Installers Exam and Review Fee/twenty-five dollars ($25.00).

25. Septic holding tank abandonment permit/fifty dollars ($50.00).  Septic holding tank/failed system abandonment with upgrade/twenty-five dollars ($25.00).

26.   New Construction Percolation Tests/Soil Evaluation, two test holes and percs (required)/three hundred dollars ($300.00) per lot.  Repair/Upgrade Construction Percolation Tests/Soil Evaluation, two test holes and percs (required)/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per lot.  Additional observation holes and percolation tests/one hundred dollars ($100.00) each.

27.  De-watered percolation test/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per hole.

28. New Construction Septic System Plan Review, DWCP, and Installation inspections/three hundred dollars ($300.00) per lot.  Repair/Upgrade Septic System Plan Review, DWCP, and Installation inspections/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per lot.

29.   Redesign and Review of previously submitted approved plans (repair/upgrade)/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per lot.  Redesign and Review of previously submitted approved plans (New Construction)/three hundred dollars ($300.00) per lot.

30. Septic System emergency repairs/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per lot.  Component inspection (i.e. D-Box, tank, etc.)/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per inspection.

31.  Alternative Subsurface Waste Water Disposal System Application/two hundred dollars ($200.00).

32. Title V Report Review and Filing Fee/twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per report.

33.  Title V Local Upgrade and Variance Review and Hearing Request Fee/twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per plan.

34. Tight Tank application and review/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per lot.

35. Private Waste Water Disposal Treatment Plan (Application new and renovated)/one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).  Inspection fee/four hundred dollars ($400.00) per year.

36. Temporary Privies or Chemical Toilets/ten dollars ($10.00) per registration and location.

37. Domestic Well Construction/Drilling Permit/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per lot.

38.   Domestic Well Abandonment Permit Fee/fifty dollars ($50.00) per well.

39. Deep Observation Well Construction Permit/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per lot/per year.

OTHER BOARD OF HEALTH PERMITS AND FEES:

40.  Animal Slaughter Houses/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

41.  Poultry Slaughter Houses/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

42. Piggeries/two hundred ($200.00) per year for more than ten pigs. One hundred dollars ($100.00) per year for ten or less pigs.  Pet pigs twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year.

43. Massage Establishments/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

44.  Personal Massage License/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.

45.  Personal Massage Establishment Plan Review Fee/fifty dollars ($50.00)

46. Tanning Salons/fifty dollars ($50.00) per tanning booth or unit per year.

47.  Tanning Salons/Establishments Plan Review Fee/fifty dollars ($50.00).

48.  Body Art Establishment Permit Fee/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

49. Body Art/Piercing Establishment Plan Review Fee/one hundred dollars ($100.00)

50.  Body Art Practitioner License Fee/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.

51. Noisome Trades Site Assignments/four hundred dollars ($400.00) citing fee/Annual Inspection fee fifty dollars ($50.00).

52. Public and semi-public pool plans/two hundred dollars ($200.00).

53.  Public and semi-public pools and spas or hot tubs/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.

54.  Recreational Vehicle Camps or Recreational Day Camps/ten dollars ($10.00) per year

55.  Public beaches/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

56.  Mobile Home Parks/fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.  Mobile Home Recreation Centers/fifty dollars ($50.00) per year, with kitchen.

57. Condominium Recreation Centers/fifty dollars ($50.00) per year, with kitchen.

58.  Lodging Houses or Rooming Houses, Common Kitchens/twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year.

59. Lodging Houses or Rooming House/ten dollars ($10.00) per unit/per year.

60. Massachusetts Vendor Rent Inspections/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per dwelling unit.

61. Sand Blasting Permit/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per application.

62. Pesticides and Herbicide Lawn Spraying Registration/ten dollars ($10.00) per lot.

63. Commercial Garbage, Rubbish and Waste Haulers/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per truck/per year.

64. Wood waste processing facilities (permanent or mobile) permit fee/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per year.

65.  Wood Waste Stump Land filling, over two hundred cubic feet per site or tract of land NOT ALLOWED.  Less than two hundred cubic feet per lot or site plan submittal/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per site.

66.  Solid Waste Landfill Assignments/fee structure based on Massachusetts Regulations (310 CMR 16.00).

67.  Private Cemetery Site Assignment/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per application.

68. Funeral Directors/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.

69.   Burial Permits/ten dollars ($10.00) per permit.

70. Board of Health Clinic Fee:

Clinic Screening Cholesterol/HDL, Glucose/ten dollars ($10.00)

Blood Pressure – Free

Blood Lead Test/two dollars ($2.00)

71.  Ice Skating Rinks Permit Fee/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year.

72.   Subdivision Plans Review Fee/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per lot.  Subdivisions twenty lots or less/fifty dollars ($50.00) per definitive plan, twenty-one to fifty lots/one hundred dollars ($100.00) per definitive plan, fifty one to one hundred lots/one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) per definitive plan, one hundred and one lots to two hundred lots/two hundred dollars ($200.00) per definitive plan, over two hundred lots/two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per definitive plan.

73.  Hearings for variances and special assignments/newspaper legal notices shall be borne by the petitioner/newspaper billing shall be forwarded to the petitioner.  The petitioner shall present the paid receipt to the Board of Health prior to the public hearing.

74. Tobacco Sales Permit ($25.00) per year.

75. Tobacco Sales Violation Fees:

Second Violation/one hundred dollars ($100.00)

Third or subsequent violations/two hundred dollars ($200.00)

ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD OF HEALTH FEES:

76. Copies requested from Board of Health/twenty-five cents ($0.25) per page.

77.   Late Filing Fee for Permit Renewal and Unpaid balances/fifty dollars ($50.00) penalty.

78. Administrative Hearing Request Fee/fifty dollars ($50.00)