California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 1798.164

(a) A local emergency medical services agency may charge a fee to an applicant seeking initial or continuing designation as a trauma facility in an amount sufficient to cover the costs directly related to the designation of trauma facilities pursuant to Section 1798.165 and to the development of the plans prepared pursuant to Sections 1797.257 and 1797.258, and subdivision (b) of Section 1798.162.

(b) Each local emergency medical services agency charging fees pursuant to subdivision (a) shall annually provide a report to the authority and to each trauma facility having paid a fee to the agency. The report shall contain sufficient detail to apprise facilities of the specific application of fees collected and to assure the authority that fees collected were expended in compliance with subdivision (a).

(c) The authority may establish a prescribed format for the report required in subdivision (b).