Whenever by the provisions of this code a form of policy or certificate and any endorsement, rider, application, amendment, fill-in material, classification of rates, certificate or premium to be used therewith, is required to be filed with, submitted to, or approved by the commissioner, fees as provided for by this

section shall be paid to the commissioner to cover the expenses of processing and indexing the same and maintaining copies of the same. The required fee shall be prescribed by the commissioner for each type document submitted, depending on its nature and the kind of processing required. The commissioner may prescribe different fees for different types of documents, and in the case of documents submitted for approval or authorization of use, shall prescribe a fee only for the final approval or authorization for use, if any.

The commissioner shall determine the fee, or fees, by estimating in advance the commissioner’s total costs of performing these services for all types of documents for a specified period of time, estimating the total number of documents of various kinds which will be submitted for processing during such time and equitably distributing the total cost on a per document basis. The commissioner shall, after notice and hearing, promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary to establish the standard or standards by which the commissioner shall determine the original fee

schedule or any amended fee schedule. Any rule or regulation shall be promulgated in accordance with the procedure provided in

Chapter 3.5 (commencing with

Section 11340) of Part of Division of Title of the Government Code and shall be effective days after adoption by the commissioner, except the first fee

schedule adopted by the commissioner under such regulation may be retroactive to the effective date of this section. All fees received by the commissioner under this

section shall be remitted to the credit of the Insurance Fund pursuant to the provisions of

Section 12975.7. Without in any manner affecting the applicability of this

section to any other provisions of this code, it is expressly provided herein that the provisions of this

section apply to the forms required to be filed, submitted, or approved under the following sections of this code: 779.8, 795.5, 1320, 9080.1, 10205, 10225, 10270, 10270.1, 10270.5, 10270.57, 10270.9, 10270.93, 10290, 10292, 10506, 11027, 11029, 11066, 11069, 11513, 11522, 11658, 12250, and 12640.18.