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EL DORADO COUNTY  Recorder-Clerk  FEE SCHEDULE

Certification & Copy Fees
Fictitious Business Name Statement Fees
Marriage License Fees
Surety Fees

Certification and Copying Fees

Code
Fee

1.

Photocopying a document, per page or fraction thereof

G.C. 26831

$.50

2.

Certifying a copy prepared by the Office of the County Clerk $ .50 per page for photocopying plus $1.75 per document for certifying one page

G.C. 26831.2

$2.25

3.

Every certificate for which the fee is not otherwise fixed.

G.C. 26836

$10.00

4.

Certificate to the official capacity of any public official, including a certificate to a notary public

G.C. 26852

$10.00

5.

Certificate of Foreign Language Translation (for documents to be recorded) per page

G. C. 27293

$10.00

Fictitious Business Name Statements Fees

Code
Fee

1.

Fictitious business name statement (effective 5 years) and furnishing one certified copy, one business name and one owner name

B&P 17929a

$30.00

 

For each additional name on the same statement (business and partners names)
Filing fee as above required for five-year renewal filing

B&P 17929a, b

$5.00

 

2.

Abandonment of Statement of Use of Fictitious Business Name

B&P 17929c, d

$30.00

 

3.

Withdrawal from Partnership operating under Fictitious Business Name.

B&P 17929c, d

$30.00

 

4.

Certified copy of any statement on file regarding a fictitious business name

B&P 17926b

$2.25

 

5.

Affidavit of publication of notice of dissolution of partnership per Corp. C. 15035.5
(Notice of dissolution not to be filed)

G.C. 26850

$10.00

 

Marriage License Fees

Code
Fee
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1.

Issuing license and certificate of public marriage, declaration of marriage, and non-clergy marriage

G.C. 26840

$60.00

 

2.

Issuing license and certificate of confidential marriage

G.C. 26840.1

$53.00

 

3.

Issuing duplicate/replacement license for marriage/confidential marriage

Fam.C. 36, Fam.C. 510

  $5.00

 

4.

Filing affidavit to amend confidential marriage certificate (one year or more after date of marriage) [includes certified copy]

H&S 103700

$14.00

 

5.

Approval of notary public to authorize confidential marriages (effective one year)

Fam.C. 536

$300.00

 

6.

Certifying a copy of, or searching for, a confidential marriage record

H&S 103625, 103640, 50 Fam.C. 509

$14.00

 

7.

Civil Marriage Ceremony performed on County property during working hours

 

$37.00

 

Surety Fees

Code
Fee
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1.

Filing a power of attorney or a notice of cancellation, revocation, or withdrawal of a power of attorney for an admitted surety insurer, if one name or, if more than one name is designated, for each name

G.C. 26855.1

$15.00

 

2.

Filing a financial statement of an admitted surety insurer

G.C. 26855.2

$3.50

 

3.

Issuing a certificate re justification of sureties per CCP 995.640

G.C. 26855.3

$5.00

 

Miscellaneous Fees

Code
Fee
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1.

Filing, canceling, revoking, or withdrawing bond of notary public — see ~note below

G.C. 26849.1

$25.00

 

2.

Registration of process server (plus bond — see #5 below)

B&P 22352

$100.00

 

plus, if applicant fingerprint check is required check live scan fee with Sheriff’s Office 530-621-5702

 

 

 

3.

Registration of professional photocopier (plus bond — see #5 below)

B&P 22453

$175.00

 

If also registered as a process server — B&P 22350

B&P 22453.1

$100.00

 

4.

Registration of legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant (plus bond — see #5 below)

B&P 6404

$175.00

 

5.

Filing, canceling, revoking, or withdrawing a process server, professional photocopier, legal document assistant or unlawful detainer assistant bond — see *note below

B&P 6405, 22353, 22455

$7.00

 

*Note: Items #1 & #5 above also require the certificate re justification of sureties

G.C. 26855.3

$5.00

 

plus the fee for recording the bond, or for recording the notice of cancellation, revocation, or withdrawal and any related document by the surety, first page (each additional page - $3.00)

 G.C. 27361

$7.00

 

6.

l.D. card for process server, professional photocopier, or unlawful detainer assistant, each

B&P 6404, 22352,22453

$10.00

 

7.

Registration of private professional conservator/guardian (effective one year)

Prob.C. 2343

$90.00

 

plus, if applicant fingerprint check is required  check live scan fee with Sheriff’s Office

530-621-5702

 

 

8.

Filing and entering certificate of appointment of humane officer (effective 3 years)

Civ.C. 607f

$10.00

 

plus, appointee fingerprint check required. Check fees with Sheriff’s Office

530-621-5702

 

 

9.

Filing miscellaneous proofs of publication, G.O.P. 2011

G.C. 26850

$10.00

 

10.

Filing and indexing all papers for which a charge is not elsewhere provided, except official bonds and certificates of appointment

G.C. 26850

$10.00

 

Regular Recording Fee

Code
Fee
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1.

Includes bonds and IRS liens and releases
Note: 1st page fee increase see Public Notices
Exception: SEE NOTE BELOW

G.C. 27361, 27397
Begins 4/12/10

$9.00
$15.00

 
 

Each additional page

 

$3.00

 
 

Non-conforming page size (other than 8 / x 11”), each page of entire document

 

$3.00

 
 

Penalty print

 

$1.00

 
 

Combined documents, each

G.C. 27361.1, 7397 Begins 4/12/10

$9.00
$15.00

 
 

Release of lien

G.C. 27361.3

$13.00

 
 

Note: Additional Fee of $3.00 added to first page of each of following documents : (Total fee of $12.00 for these pages only) First Page for each: Deed of Trust, Assignment of Deed of Trust, Reconveyance, Request for Notice, Notice of Default, Rescission of Notice of Default, Substitution of Trustee and Notice of Trustee Sale (District Attorney Real Estate Fraud Prevention Fund)
Effective July 1, 2004 and amended April 13, 2009

G.C. 27388

$3.00

 
 

Financing Statements — UCC

UCC 9403-07

$10.00

 
 

Civ.C. 3097

G.C. 27361

 

 
 

Financing Statements — UCC non-conforming form

 

$20.00

 

2.

Copies

G.C. 27366

 

 
 

First page

 

$1.00

 
 

Each additional page

 

$ .50

 
 

Certification

 

$1.00

 
 

Proof of Recordation under seal

G.C. 27364

$1.00

 

3.

Notification of Involuntary Lien (per debtor)

G.C. 27387

$10.00

 

4.

Vital Records

H&S 103625

 

 
 

Birth

 

$17.00

 
 

Marriage

 

$14.00

 
 

Death

 

$12.00

 
 

Birth (governmental agency)

 

$11.00

 
5. Financing Statements UCC 9403-07 G.C. 27361
 
 

Request for information

 

$10.00

 
 

Copies — first page

 

$1.00

 
 

Certification

 

$1.00

 
 

  Each additional page

 

$ .50

 
6. Document Requiring Additional Indexing  
 
 

* Each additional reference indexed

G.C. 27361.2

$3.00

 
  * Document requiring indexing of more than 10 names (for each group of 10 names or fractional portion thereof after the initial group of 10 names) G.C. 27361.8
* Begins 4/12/2010
$5.00
 
7.

Documentary Transfer Tax, per $500

R&T 11911

$ .55

 
8.

Survey Monument Preservation Fund Fee

G.C. 27584

  N/A

 
9.

Filing Papers not to be Recorded

G.C. 27380

$2.00

 
10.

Filing of Maps

G.C. 27372

 

 
 

First page

 

$9.00

 
 

Each additional map page

 

$3.00

 
11.

Searching Records

 

 

 
 

Vital records --  Birth

H&S 103650

$17.00

 
 

Marriage

        

$14.00

 
 

Death

 

$12.00

 
12.

Documents Recorded Without Preliminary Change of Ownership Report

R&T 480.3

$20.00

 
13.

Preliminary 20-Day Filing and Notice

G.C. 27361.9 Civ.C. 3097

$30.00


Map Copies Fees  
Fee
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Assessor Plat Maps - Each
$1.00
 
Parcel Map - First page and $.80 each additional page
$1.50
 
Record of Survey - First page and $.80 each additional page
$1.50
 
Marriage Ceremony Fees  
Fee
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Civil ceremony performed on County property
$37.00
 
"Deputy for a Day" program
(allows relatives or friends to be deputized to perform one ceremony)
$40.00
 
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