Rhode Island Development Impact Fee Act

This act governs development impact fees — charges imposed on new development to help pay for the public capital improvements that serve it. It sets minimum standards that a local impact fee ordinance must satisfy, covering the procedure for adopting and imposing fees, a determination that each fee reflects the new development's proportionate share of the costs, and reliance on a capital improvements plan reviewed by a development impact fee advisory committee. It further regulates the money once collected — requiring that fees be earmarked and spent for their intended purpose and refunded when they are not — while providing credits against fees, appeal rights, collection procedures, authority for intergovernmental agreements, and transitional treatment of fees and ordinances already in place.

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