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Fees For Service

Recording Fees
Standard first page*, one side 8 1/2" x 11"
$ 6.00
Each additional page
(A $3.00 charge will be added to all pages of a document containing a non-standard page)
$ 3.00
Combined documents* (per title)
$ 6.00
Multiple Reference (per reference)
$ 1.00
Indexing more than 10 names (per group of 10 names)
$ 1.00
Notification of involuntary lien (per debtor - not applicable to Mechanic Liens)
$ 10.00
Release of any state, county, city or municipality tax lien
$ 10.00
Survey Monument Preservation Fund (for each Grant Deed recorded showing a legal description other than a complete lot and tract)
$ 20.00
Documentary Transfer Tax (per $500.00)
$ 0.55
Change in Ownership (applies when recording a change in ownership without a Preliminary Change of Ownership Report)
$ 20.00
* In addition to the standard recording fees listed, a District Attorney Fraud Fee of $3.00 per title will be applied to the following documents: a Deed of Trust, an Assignment of Deed of Trust, a Reconveyance, a Request for Notice, a Notice of Default, a Substitution of Trustee, a Notice of Trustee Sale and a Notice of Rescission of Declaration of Default.
Recorded Documents Copy Fees
Documents (per page)
$ 1.00
Maps and Documents exceeding 11" x 18" (per page)
$ 1.00
Certification (only completed documents will be certified)
$ 1.00
Conformed copies
$ 1.00
Birth and Death Records
Certified Copy or Record Search
 
Birth
$ 17.00
Death
$ 12.00
Marriage Licenses and Ceremonies
License and Certificate of Marriage
$ 61.50
License and Certificate of Confidential Marriage
$ 66.25
License and Certificate of Declaration of Marriage
$ 61.50
Certified Copy of Confidential or Public Marriage Certificate
$ 13.00
Duplicate Marriage License
$ 25.00
Replacement Marriage License
$ 9.00
License and Certificate of Confidential Marriage Issued to Authorized Notaries
$ 64.00
Certificate of No Record of Marriage / Single Status
$ 13.00
Affidavit to Amend Marriage License  
Less Than One Year from License Issuance Date (includes certified copy)
$ 13.00
More Than One Year after License Issuance Date (includes certified copy)
$ 20.00
Marriage Ceremony
$ 28.00
Search of Marriage Record
$ 13.00
Fictitious Business Name Statement
Fictitious Business Name Statements (FBN)
$ 23.00
each additional FBN after the first
$ 7.00
each additional registrant after two
$ 7.00
Statement of Abandonment of use of fictitious business name
$ 23.00
Statement of withdrawal from partnership operating under fictitious business name
$ 23.00
Notice of Dissolution of Partnership
$ 30.00
Search fee for each fictitious/registrant name
$ 7.00
Certificate of Filing/Non-Filing for each fictitious business name/registrant
$ 9.25
Regular copy (per page)
$ 0.15
Certification of Fictitious Business Statement
$ 1.00
Notary Public
Registration and filing fee
$ 28.25
Bond recording fee (first page)
$ 6.00
Fee for each additional page
$ 3.00
Notary signature authentication
$ 13.00
Yearly registration fee for authorization to purchase License and Certificate of Confidential Marriage
$ 175.00
Process Server
Registration and filing fee (includes one ID card)
$ 107.00
Bond recording fee (first page)
$ 6.00
Fee for each additional page
$ 3.00
Additional ID cards
$ 10.00
Professional Photocopiers
Registration and filing fee (includes one ID)
$ 182.00
Bond recording fee (first page)
$ 6.00
Fee for each additional page
$ 3.00
Additional ID cards
$ 10.00
Unlawful Detainer
Registration and filing fee (includes one ID)
$ 182.00
Bond recording fee (first page)
$ 6.00
Fee for additional page
$ 3.00
Additional ID cards
$ 10.00
Fish and Game Environmental Filing
Negative Declaration
$ 1,993.00
Environmental Impact Report
$ 2,768.25
County Clerk-Recorder Administrative/Processing fee
$ 50.00
Passports
Ten Year Passport (age 16 and older):  
Check payable to U.S. Passport Services
Processing fee payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
$ 75.00
$ 25.00

$ 100.00
Passport Card* (age 16 and older who have an existing passport):  
Check payable to U.S. Passport Services
Processing fee payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
$ 20.00
$ 25.00

$ 45.00
Passport Card* (age 16 and older without an existing passport):  
Check payable to U.S. Passport Services
Processing fee payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
$ 20.00
$ 25.00

$ 45.00
Five Year Passport (under age 16):  
Check payable to U.S. Passport Services
Processing fee payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
$ 60.00
$ 25.00

$ 85.00
Passport Card* (under age 16 who have an existing passport):  
Check payable to U.S. Passport Services
Processing fee payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
$ 10.00
$ 25.00

$ 35.00
Passport Card* (under age 16 without an existing passport):  
Check payable to U.S. Passport Services
Processing fee payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
$ 10.00
$ 25.00

$ 35.00
Expedited services (per passport) - make checks payable to US Passport Services
$ 60.00
Two passport photos - applicants may furnish their own photos
$ 15.00
* Passport card good for land and sea travel between the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda only.
Miscellaneous Fees
Filing of maps (subdivisions, parcel, survey and assessment)
$ 7.00
Each additional page
$ 3.00
Preliminary 20-day Notice of Mechanics Lien (filing and search fee)
$ 72.00
Search of Federal tax liens and releases (ten year period) / name
$ 15.00
Search of Uniform Commercial Code Financing Statement (five-year period) / name
$ 15.00
Exemplification of record or paper
$ 20.00
Certification of Registered Translators
$ 10.00
Payment Information
Acceptable method of payments: Cash, Checks, Money Orders, Cashier's Check, Discover, American Express, MasterCard Credit and Debit,
Visa Debit (with no Interlink logo on the card). We do not accept Visa Credit.
Please make checks payable to the Orange County Clerk-Recorder
Return Check Service Fee: $25.00
An additional $2.50 terminal usage charge will be applied per ATM/Debit/Credit card transaction

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