The AMBER Alert Program is a voluntary partnership between law enforcement agencies, broadcasters, transportation agencies, and the wireless industry, to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases.
A fee or other charge that is added to the cost of a good or service. A surcharge is typically added to an existing tax, and may not be included in the stated price of a good or service. It may be a temporary measure to defray the cost of increased commodity pricing, such as with a fuel surcharge, or it may be permanent.
1 It is a rare bank indeed that charges its own customers to use its ATMs, but it's far from unheard of. 2  Approximately 10% of all banks now charge their own customers for using the ATM. 3  The ones that do charge tend to have a fee of around $1.