This ordinance affirms and ratifies that the fees listed below which had previously been adopted by Resolution No. 01-229 are reasonably necessary to recover the cost of providing the above listed products and services by the Clerk/Recorder based upon appropriately conducted fee studies. This ordinance ratifies the fees as adopted by Resolution No. 01-229. Pursuant to Government Code section 54985, in addition to the fees prescribed by statute, the Office of the Clerk/Recorder may charge:
(a) Thirty-six dollars ($36) for the issuance of a regular marriage license and the filing of a certificate of registry of marriage.
(b) Thirty-four dollars ($34) for the filing of a confidential marriage certificate.
(c) Twenty dollars ($20) for the issuance of either a regular or confidential duplicate marriage certificate.
(d) Thirty-five dollars ($35) for the performance of a civil marriage ceremony.
(e) Twenty-one dollars ($21) for the filing of a fictitious business name statement for the first fictitious business name, and five dollars ($5) for each additional name.
(f) Twenty-four dollars ($24) for the filing of a statement of withdrawal from a partnership operating under a fictitious business name.
(g) Twenty-two dollars ($22) for the filing of the bond of a notary public.
(h) Four dollars and twenty-five cents ($4.25) for the issuance of a certificate stating whether the certificate of authority of an admitted surety insurer issued by the Insurance Commissioner authorizing the insurer to transact surety insurance, has been surrendered, revoked, canceled, annulled, or suspended, and whether renewed authority has been granted, and for the issuance of a certificate stating whether a copy of the transcript or record of the unrevoked appointment, power of attorney, bylaws, or other instrument, duly certified by the proper authority and attested by the seal of an admitted surety insurer entitling or authorizing the person who executed a bond to do so for and on behalf of the insurer, is filed in the office of the clerk, and for each certificate to the official capacity of any public official.
(i) Six dollars and twenty-five cents ($6.25) for the filing of a power of attorney for an admitted surety insurer.
(j) Two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) for the filing of a power of attorney for an admitted surety insurer for two or more names. (§ 2, Ord. 1346, eff. April 20, 2006)