San Francisco Administrative Code § 8.44 Department of Administrative Services Reproduction and Notary Fees

(a) Authority. The Department of Administrative Services (and Planning Department and Department of Building Inspection with respect to Notary Fees) is hereby authorized to charge the following fees to any persons requesting the following documents or services:

(b) For the respective fees in the above chart that are charged on a per square foot basis, the fee shall include any fraction of a square foot.

(c) Automatic Adjustment. Beginning with fiscal year 2024-2025, the fees set in subsection (a) shall be adjusted each year, without further action by the Board of Supervisors, to reflect changes in the relevant Consumer Price Index, as determined by the Controller, and to produce revenues sufficient to support the costs of providing the services for which the fees are assessed, but which will not produce revenue which is significantly more than the cost of providing the services for which the fees are assessed, also as determined by the Controller.

(1) No later than April 15 of each year, the City Administrator shall submit its current fee schedule to the Controller, and shall report to the Controller the revenues generated by the fees for the prior fiscal year and the prior fiscal year’s costs for the services for which the fees are assessed, as well as any other information that the Controller determines appropriate to the performance of the Controller’s duties set forth in this Section 8.44. The Controller shall apply the price index adjustment and if necessary, adjust the fees upward or downward for the upcoming fiscal year as appropriate to ensure that costs of providing the services are recovered without producing revenue which is significantly more than such costs to produce a new fee schedule for the following year.

(2) No later than May 15 of each year, the Controller shall file a report with the Board of Supervisors reporting the new fee schedule and certifying that: (a) the fees produce sufficient revenue to support the costs of providing the services for which each fee is assessed, and (b) the fees do not produce revenue which is significantly more than the costs of providing the services for which each fee is assessed. The adjusted fees shall become operative on July 1. (Added by Ord. 176-20, File No. 200840, App. 10/1/2020, Eff. 11/1/2020; amended by Ord. 181-22, File No. 220681, App. 8/4/2022, Eff. 9/4/2022; Ord. 237-23, File No. 230980, App. 11/21/2023, Eff. 12/22/2023; Ord. 112-26, File No. 260478, App. 6/11/2026, Eff. 7/12/2026)