(a) The department shall be paid the following fees: (1) For filing an application for a certificate of title, twenty-five dollars; (2) for each security interest noted upon a certificate of title or maintained in the electronic title file pursuant to subsection (b) of § 15-214, ten dollars; (3) for each record copy search, twenty dollars; (4) for each assignment of a security interest noted upon a certificate of title or maintained in the electronic title file, ten dollars; (5) for an application for a replacement certificate of title, twenty-five dollars, provided such fee shall not be required for any such replacement certificate of title; (6) for filing a notice of security interest, ten dollars; (7) for filing a termination statement relating to a security interest pursuant to § 15-215, ten dollars; (8) for filing a secured party’s transfer statement pursuant to § 15-218, twenty-five dollars; (9) for filing a transfer-by-law statement pursuant to § 15-219, twenty-five dollars; (10) for filing an application for transfer of ownership or termination of a security interest without a certificate of title pursuant to § 15-220, twenty-five dollars; (11) for a certificate of search of the records of the department for each name or hull identification number searched against, twenty dollars; (12) for filing an assignment of security interest, ten dollars; (13) for search of a vessel certificate of title record, requested by a person other than the owner of record of such vessel, twenty dollars; and (14) for a certified copy of any documentation, information or other record maintained or created by the department, twenty dollars.

(b) If an application, certificate of title or other document required to be delivered to the department under any provision of sections 15-201 to 15-232, inclusive, is not delivered to the department within ten days from the time it is required to be delivered, the department shall collect, as a penalty, an amount equal to the fee required for the transaction.

(c) Vessels leased to an agency of this state and vessels owned by the state, an agency of the state or a municipality, as defined in § 7-245, shall be exempt from the fees imposed by this section.