§ 1779.2
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(a)Any entity filing an application for a permit to accept deposits and a certificate of authority shall pay an application fee.
(b)The applicant shall pay 80 percent of the application fee for all planned phases at the time the applicant submits its application. The 80 percent payment shall be made by check payable to the Continuing Care Provider Fee Fund. The department shall not process the application until it has received this fee.
(c)For new continuing care retirement communities or for the sale or transfer of existing continuing care retirement communities, the application fee shall be calculated as one-tenth of 1 percent of the purchase price of the continuing care retirement community, or the estimated construction cost, including the purchase price of the land or the present value of any long-term lease and all items listed in subparagraph
(D)of paragraph
(2)of subdivision
(y)of Section 1779.4.
(d)For existing continuing care retirement communities that are proposing new phases, remodeling or an expansion, the application fee shall be calculated as one-tenth of 1 percent of the cost of the addition, annexation, or renovation, including the value of the land and improvements and all items listed in subparagraph
(D)of paragraph
(2)of subdivision
(y)of Section 1779.4.
(e)For existing facilities converting to continuing care retirement communities, the application fee shall be calculated as one-tenth of 1 percent of the current appraised value of the facility, including the land, or present value of any long-term lease.
(f)For organizational changes, the application fee shall be determined by the department based on the time and resources it considers reasonably necessary to process the application, including any consultant fees. The minimum application fee for those applications shall be two thousand dollars ($2,000).
(g)The applicant shall pay the remainder of the application fee before the provisional certificate of authority is issued, or in the case of expansions or remodeling, before final approval of the project is granted. The applicant shall make this payment by check payable to the Continuing Care Provider Fee Fund.