SEC. 8.14. MEDICAL EXAMINER'S FEES FOR COPIES OF DOCUMENTS

(a) The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is hereby authorized to charge the following fees to any persons or government agencies, including departments or agencies of the City and County of San Francisco, that request or require such documents or services:

Proof of death letter	$10
Statement of non-contagion	10
Certified copy of Medical Examiner’s report	47
Disaster bag	67

Copies of X-rays, per film	33
Re-cut microscopic slides, per slide	33
Storage of remains, per day	77
Removal of remains from place of death to OCME facility, Medical Examiner’s cases	632
Cremation of remains by request with approval of OCME	1,196
Certified forensic toxicology report	16
Certified supporting documentation for results of forensic toxicology report, per page	1
Packaging and delivery of subpoenaed records to court	23
Specimen storage, per month	38
Expert testimony or consultation by OCME toxicologist (non-Ph.D.), per hour	386/hour* *
Expert testimony or consultation by OCME toxicologist (Ph.D.), per hour	548**
Expert testimony or consultation by OCME forensic pathologist, per hour	800**
Expert testimony or consultation by OCME investigator, per hour	386**
Drug screening in blood or urine by GC/MS (gas chromatography with mass spectrometry)	1,644
Drug confirmation in urine, per drug	411
Drug confirmation and quantitation in blood, per drug	411
Drug screening in gastric contents or tissue by GC/MS	2,056
Drug confirmation in gastric contents or tissue, per drug	548
Date rape drug screening in urine	1,644
Date rape drug confirmation in urine, per drug	411
Drug screening and confirmation in hair, per hair specimen	5,481
Decedent’s property mailing fee	55
Histology service, including embedding, cutting, routine H & E staining and coverslipping, per 4 cassettes	164
Forensic alcohol analysis, per case	100
Drug screening and confirmation in nails, per nail specimen	1,566
Preparation of specimen for shipment or release	75
Postmortem Comprehensive Drug Analysis	360
Postmortem Comprehensive Expanded Drug Analysis	525
Postmortem Comprehensive Drug and Alcohol Analysis	400

Postmortem Comprehensive Expanded Drug and Alcohol Analysis	525
Postmortem Carbon Monoxide Analysis	95
Postmortem Biochemistry (Electrolytes) Analysis	95

** Travel and accommodation charges will be the responsibility of the requesting party.

Except as otherwise provided by law, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is authorized to charge a fee on a time-and-materials basis to issue documents or perform services other than those specified above. The fee charged shall not exceed the actual cost that the OCME incurs in providing the document or service to the requesting party.

(b) All cases brought into the Medical Examiner’s Office facility shall be billed for transportation, personnel handling, and storage costs, except for the following categories of cases:

(1) Decedents under 14 years of age;

(2) Homicides;

(3) In custody or police-involved cases;

(4) Indigents (County disposition);

(5) Cases in which private charitable funds available to pay funeral costs would thereby be reduced so as to preclude payment;

(6) Cases specifically exempted by the Chief Medical Examiner or his or her designee.

(c) Beginning with fiscal year 2003-2004, fees set in this Section 8.14 may 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.

No later than April 15 of each year, the Medical Examiner’s Office shall submit its current fee schedule to the Controller, who shall apply the price index adjustment to produce a new fee schedule for the following year. The adjusted rates shall become operative on July 1.

(d) All fees received for documents and services mentioned in this Section 8.14 shall be deposited with the Treasurer and shall be used to defray the costs incurred by the Medical Examiner in issuing such documents or providing such services.

(Amended by Ord. 231-82, App. 5/13/82; Ord. 120-87, App. 4/17/87; Ord. 222-92, App. 7/14/92; Ord. 169-95, App. 5/26/95; Ord. 384-96, App. 10/16/96; Ord. 156-02, File No. 021080, App. 7/12/2002; Ord. 163-04, File No. 040750, App. 7/22/2004; Ord. 177-05, File No. 050984, App. 7/29/2005; Ord. 182-07, File No. 070808, App. 8/3/2007; Ord. 167-09, File No. 090721, App. 7/21/2009; Ord. 168-13; File No. 130543, App. 8/2/2013, Eff. 9/1/2013; Ord. 45-17, File No. 161316, App. 2/24/2017, Eff. 3/26/2017; Ord. 175-20, File No. 200839, App. 10/1/2020, Eff. 11/1/2020)

SEC. 8.14-1. [REPEALED.] ¶

(Added by Ord. 182-09, File No. 090837, 7/27/2009; repealed by Ord. 131-18, File No. 180132, App. 6/14/2018, Eff. 7/15/2018, Retro. 7/1/2018)