Each applicant shall, at the time of making application, pay a fee in accordance with a fee schedule adopted by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. No application, certificate, permit, or appeal shall be processed or approved without payment of the appropriate fee.

At the time of making an appeal or application to the Zoning Hearing Board for any cause or to the Board of Supervisors for an amendment or for a curative amendment, each appellant or applicant shall submit a deposit to the Township in accordance with a fee schedule adopted by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The deposit is established to reimburse the Township for all reasonable advertising, stenographic, engineering or planning services incurred by the Township in connection with the subject appellant's or applicant's hearing before the Zoning Hearing Board or the Board of Supervisors, as the case may be, and in addition, the cost of compensation to the members of the Zoning Hearing Board or Board of Supervisors which hears the action. Upon completion of the hearing, or if the hearing lasts more than one day, periodically during the course of the hearing, the appellant or applicant shall be billed for expenses in excess of the deposit and shall promptly pay such excess amount. Upon completion of the hearing, the appellant or applicant shall be reimbursed that amount of the deposit not expended. The payment of fees and costs set forth above shall be a prerequisite to the validity of any permit, variance, ruling, or decision issued in favor of an applicant pursuant to any proceeding initiated before the Zoning Hearing Board or the Board of Supervisors.