The amount of the fees prescribed by this

chapter shall be fixed by the board in accordance with the following schedule: (

a) The fee for filing an application for licensure as a geologist or a geophysicist or certification as a specialty geologist or a specialty geophysicist shall be fixed at not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250). The fee for filing an application for certification as a geologist-in-training shall be fixed at not more than one hundred dollars ($100). (

b) The renewal fee for a geologist or for a geophysicist shall be fixed at not more than four hundred dollars ($400). (

c) The renewal fee for a specialty geologist or for a specialty geophysicist shall be fixed at not more than four hundred dollars ($400). (

d) Notwithstanding

Section 163.5, the delinquency fee for a certificate is an amount equal to percent of the renewal fee in effect on the last regular renewal date. (

e) Each applicant for licensure as a geologist shall pay an examination fee fixed at an amount equal to the actual cost to the board to administer the examination described in subdivision (

d) of

Section 7841, unless an applicant pays the examination fee directly to an organization pursuant to

Section 7844. (

f) Each applicant for licensure as a geophysicist or certification as an engineering geologist or certification as a hydrogeologist shall pay an examination fee fixed by the board at an amount equal to the actual cost to the board for the development and maintenance of the written examination. (

g) The fee for a retired license shall be fixed at not more than percent of the fee for filing an application for licensure as a geologist or a geophysicist in effect on the date of application for a retired license. (

h) All other document fees shall be established by the board by regulation and shall be set in an amount not to exceed a reasonable regulatory cost.