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Walton County to refund mobility fees after state law; commissioners say legal limits leave little choice
Summary
The county approved refunds for mobility fees collected before the effective date of Senate Bill 180, after legal staff advised the board the fees are void ab initio and must be returned; commissioners expressed reluctance but voted to begin processing roughly $1.5 million in segregated impact-fee funds.
Walton County commissioners voted to authorize refunding mobility (impact) fees collected before the effective date of Senate Bill 180 after county legal and financial staff said the fees were invalid under the new state law.
"The effect of the bill...was to declare our ordinance void ab initio," county legal counsel told the board, meaning staff said the fee "never existed" as of the bill’s retroactive date and the county must refund fees collected during the period the local ordinance was deemed invalid. County staff described the total refunds as "about $1.5 million," and said the fees are held in segregated…
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