The service price mentioned in these Regulations refers to the fees charged by citizens, legal persons and other organizations for providing paid services to consumers by using venues, facilities, information, knowledge, technology and labor services. Article 3 The competent price departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the service price work within their respective administrative areas, and other relevant departments shall assist in the relevant service price work within their respective functions and duties. Article 4 According to the nature and importance of the service items, the service prices shall be regulated by the market, guided by the government or set by the government. Article 5 Market-regulated prices shall be determined independently by business operators in accordance with the principles of fairness, legality, honesty and credit, and according to service costs and market supply and demand. Article 6 The following service prices may be guided or fixed by the government:
(1) Important public utility prices and public service prices;
(two) the price of important intermediary services that do not have competitive conditions;
(three) other service prices should be determined by the provincial people's government.
The specific service price items subject to government guidance and government pricing are based on the pricing catalogue stipulated by the central and provincial governments. The pricing catalogue shall be announced to the public by the competent price department of the provincial people's government. Article 7 When setting government-guided prices and government-set prices, the competent pricing department shall conduct cost surveys to master and understand the operators' operating conditions, management level, industry service costs, market supply and demand conditions and social affordability, and listen to the opinions of operators, consumers, industry authorities and consumer committees. Article 8 An operator or the competent department of industry shall apply to the competent department of price for the service price items listed in the local pricing catalogue according to the price management authority, and the competent department of price shall give a reply within 60 days from the date of receiving the application. Ninth to formulate and adjust the following government guidance prices and government pricing related to the vital interests of citizens, a hearing shall be held:
(1) The prices of public welfare services such as high school, technical secondary school, junior college, university education, basic medical care and funeral organized by the state;
(two) public transportation, property management, cable TV, local calls, tickets for important tourist attractions and other public utilities prices.
The price items listed in the preceding paragraph shall not be formulated or adjusted without hearing. Article 10 The hearing shall be organized by the competent pricing department.
The competent price department shall announce the time, place and matters of the hearing, the number of people attending the hearing and the registration place ten days before the hearing is held. Article 11 When holding a hearing, the competent pricing department shall provide relevant detailed information so that the applicant can state the reasons and basis for requesting the establishment or adjustment of service prices and fully listen to the opinions of the participants in the hearing. The competent price department shall explain the relevant issues concerning the formulation or adjustment of service prices. Article 12 The competent pricing department shall fully consider the reasonable opinions put forward by the hearing when formulating or adjusting the service price. Article 13 Operators engaged in government-guided and government-set service items shall register their service prices with the competent price department according to the price management authority with the industrial and commercial registration certificate or relevant qualification certificate and the charging documents approved by the competent price department, and the competent price department shall verify the charging items, charging scope, charging objects and charging standards of their service prices, issue a service price registration certificate, and collect bills uniformly stipulated by the state with the vouchers of the relevant departments. Fourteenth operators must clearly mark the price, and publish the service items, service contents, service specifications and charging standards in a prominent position in the business premises. Operators shall not charge any unspecified fees, and shall not only charge for non-service or reduce the quantity and quality of services after charging, and shall not discriminate against consumers and other operators with the same conditions.
Where government-guided and government-set prices are implemented, operators shall not set up charging items, expand the charging scope and raise the charging standards without authorization. Article 15 State organs shall not charge official fees within the scope of their duties in the name of paid services, or require consumers to accept services provided by designated operators. Sixteenth price departments should strengthen the supervision and inspection of service price activities according to law. To carry out business inspection and annual inspection on the implementation of government-guided prices and government pricing; For the implementation of market-adjusted prices, random checks are conducted; The reported service price violations shall be verified in time and dealt with according to law.
The competent price department shall not charge the annual inspection fee. Seventeenth in violation of the provisions of article thirteenth and fourteenth of this Ordinance, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the "People's Republic of China (PRC) price law" and other relevant laws and regulations.
In violation of the provisions of article fifteenth of these regulations, the competent price department shall order it to make corrections and refund the money received. If it cannot be refunded, it shall be confiscated; The directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions according to law; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.