22 U.S.C. § 214 : US Code - Section 214: Fees for execution and issuance of passports; persons excused from payment

Search 22 U.S.C. § 214 : US Code - Section 214: Fees for execution and issuance of passports; persons excused from payment

(a) There shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the
United States a fee, prescribed by the Secretary of State by
regulation, for the filing of each application for a passport
(including the cost of passport issuance and use) and a fee,
prescribed by the Secretary of State by regulation, for executing
each such application except that the Secretary of State may by
regulation authorize State officials or the United States Postal
Service to collect and retain the execution fee for each
application for a passport accepted by such officials or by that
Service. Such fees shall not be refundable, except as the Secretary
may by regulation prescribe. No passport fee shall be collected
from an officer or employee of the United States proceeding abroad
in the discharge of official duties, or from members of his
immediate family; from an American seaman who requires a passport
in connection with his duties aboard an American flag-vessel; or
from a widow, child, parent, brother, or sister of a deceased
member of the Armed Forces proceeding abroad to visit the grave of
such member. No execution fee shall be collected for an application
made before a Federal official by a person excused from payment of
the passport fee under this section.
(b)(1) The Secretary of State may by regulation establish and
collect a surcharge on applicable fees for the filing of each
application for a passport in order to cover the costs of meeting
the increased demand for passports as a result of actions taken to
comply with section 7209(b) of the Intelligence Reform and
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-458; 8 U.S.C. 1185
note). Such surcharge shall be in addition to the fees provided for
in subsection (a) of this section and in addition to the surcharges
or fees otherwise authorized by law and shall be deposited as an
offsetting collection to the appropriate Department of State
appropriation, to remain available until expended for the purposes
of meeting such costs.
(2) The authority to collect the surcharge provided under
paragraph (1) may not be exercised after September 30, 2010.
(3) The Secretary of State shall ensure that, to the extent
practicable, the total cost of a passport application during fiscal
years 2006 and 2007, including the surcharge authorized under
paragraph (1), shall not exceed the cost of the passport
application as of December 1, 2005.