Does the Office have authority to assess fees in that manner?

The agency gets about $400 million of its $1.9 billion budget from fees assessed on drug makers.

Customers may have up to three titles out at any time, and are not assessed late fees.

A member may not vote or be recognized by the chair for any purpose until he has paid the fee assessed against him.

National figures concerning fees assessed to criminals are not available, but Washington is something of a case study.

Even online businesses, whose customers are the most comfortable with technology, have only recently assessed fees for paper.

To finance the ratings process, the manufacturers will be assessed fees.

Twelve states assess fees on the basis of reports filed under the disclosure law.

Krewe members are assessed fees in order to pay for the parade and/or ball.

But efforts by local officials to assess fees specifically to build schools or expand them have not won legislative approval.