{"id":45,"date":"2014-06-10T19:19:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2016-12-06T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:36:21","slug":"legality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Legality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Is Cost Recovery Legal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answer is \u201cYES\u201d. The South Carolina Code of Laws contains three statutes\u00a0(Section 54-21-10, 56-5-4100, 5-7-30) authorizing cost recovery (user fees) in\u00a0conjunction with an ordinance or resolution by the fire departments governing\u00a0body.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that some states have banned or restricted cost recovery for some types\u00a0of incidents. However, it is currently legal in the overwhelming majority of states.\u00a0\u201cCollectively, case law seems to present the general principle that, where a fee is\u00a0authorized by statute, issued pursuant to statutory prescription, and proportional\u00a0to the cost of the service rendered \u2013 it will be upheld.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Cost Recovery Legal? The answer is \u201cYES\u201d. The South Carolina Code of Laws contains three statutes\u00a0(Section 54-21-10, 56-5-4100, 5-7-30) authorizing cost recovery (user fees) in\u00a0conjunction with an ordinance or resolution by the fire departments governing\u00a0body. It is true that some states have banned or restricted cost recovery for some types\u00a0of incidents. However, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/?page_id=45\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/costrecoveryfacts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}