Section 17929 - Fees for filing statements(a) The fee for filing a fictitious business name statement is ten dollars ($10) for the first fictitious business name and owner and two dollars ($2) for each additional fictitious business name or owner filed on the same statement and doing business at the same location. This fee covers the cost of filing and indexing the statement (and any affidavit of publication), the cost of furnishing one certified copy of the statement to the registrant filing the statement, acceptance, verification, and maintenance of the affidavit of identity statement and other documents or actions that may be required pursuant to subdivisions (d), (e), and (f) of Section 17913, and the cost for notifying registrants of the pending expiration of their fictitious business name statement.(b) The fee for filing a statement of abandonment of use of a fictitious business name is five dollars ($5). This fee covers the cost of filing and indexing the statement, the cost of any affidavit of publication, and the cost of furnishing one certified copy of the statement to the registrant filing the statement.(c) The fee for filing a statement of withdrawal from partnership operating under a fictitious business name is five dollars ($5). This fee covers the cost of filing and indexing the statement, the cost of any affidavit of publication, and the cost of furnishing one certified copy of the statement to the registrant filing the statement.(d) All of the provisions of this section are subject to Section 54985 of the Government Code.(e) If the notice of pending expiration, as described in subdivision (a), is returned to the county clerk by the United States Postal Service as undeliverable, the county clerk is not required to retain the returned notice of pending expiration.(f) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2014.Ca. Bus. and Prof'l. Code § 17929
Added by Stats 2012 ch 368 (AB 1325),s 12, eff. 1/1/2013.