On 30 November 2010, Henry Smith said the regime could be administered by councils, with private car park operators covering the cost of the scheme by paying an application fee.

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The application, which can be downloaded for free, charges vendors a credit card processing fee of 1.8 percent plus 15 cents per transaction, assuming you're swiping plastic from MasterCard, Visa or Discover.

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Instead, the software company took care of all this in the Cloud and for a modest annual subscription fee that was less than my TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of managing the application in the district data center.

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As of September 26, 2011, the USPTO now offers expedited patent application review, for a fee.

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Unlike the handful of early adopters, however, Zuckerberg will not have to submit any application or pay any fee.

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You should be in alignment with your brand rep on all of this before you submit the application and hand over the thirty-odd-thousand dollar application fee to the franchise organization.

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