The Board of Supervisors Monday authorized the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to move ahead with preparing a series of revisions to fees charged by the agency for background checks, subpoena deliveries, coroner’s operations, fortune-telling licenses and other services.

In a 5-0 vote without comment Monday, the board cleared sheriff’s personnel, in coordination with the Office of County Counsel, to revise fee schedules that have not been updated since June 2010.

The sheriff’s office is expected to return with a new fee “ordinance” for board consideration within the next several months.

It was not immediately known whether the agency’s current fee schedule would be completely revamped, or only partially. It was also uncertain whether a few fees may be reduced, rather than increased

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