Section 9250.7 Of Article 2. Registration Fees From California Vehicle Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 2.
9250.7
. (a) (1) A service authority established under Section 22710
may impose a service fee of one dollar ($1) on all vehicles, except
vehicles described in subdivision (a) of Section 5014.1, registered
to an owner with an address in the county that established the
service authority. The fee shall be paid to the department at the
time of registration, or renewal of registration, or when renewal
becomes delinquent, except on vehicles that are expressly exempted
under this code from the payment of registration fees.
(2) In addition to the one-dollar ($1) service fee, and upon the
implementation of the permanent trailer identification plate program,
and as part of the Commercial Vehicle Registration Act of 2001, all
commercial motor vehicles subject to Section 9400.1 registered to an
owner with an address in the county that established a service
authority under this section shall pay an additional service fee of
two dollars ($2).
(b) The department, after deducting its administrative costs,
shall transmit, at least quarterly, the net amount collected pursuant
to subdivision (a) to the Treasurer for deposit in the Abandoned
Vehicle Trust Fund, which is hereby created. All money in the fund is
continuously appropriated to the Controller for allocation to a
service authority that has an approved abandoned vehicle abatement
program pursuant to Section 22710, and for payment of the
administrative costs of the Controller. After deduction of its
administrative costs, the Controller shall allocate the money in the
Abandoned Vehicle Trust Fund to each service authority in proportion
to the revenues received from the fee imposed by that authority
pursuant to subdivision (a). If any funds received by a service
authority pursuant to this section are not expended to abate
abandoned vehicles pursuant to an approved abandoned vehicle
abatement program that has been in existence for at least two full
fiscal years within 90 days of the close of the fiscal year in which
the funds were received and the amount of those funds exceeds the
amount expended by the service authority for the abatement of
abandoned vehicles in the previous fiscal year, the fee imposed
pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be suspended for one year,
commencing on July 1 following the Controller's determination
pursuant to subdivision (e).
(c) Every service authority that imposes a fee authorized by
subdivision (a) shall issue a fiscal yearend report to the Controller
on or before October 31 of each year summarizing all of the
following:
(1) The total revenues received by the service authority during
the previous fiscal year.
(2) The total expenditures by the service authority during the
previous fiscal year.
(3) The total number of vehicles abated during the previous fiscal
year.
(4) The average cost per abatement during the previous fiscal
year.
(5) Any additional, unexpended fee revenues for the service
authority during the previous fiscal year.
(6) The number of notices to abate issued to vehicles during the
previous fiscal year.
(7) The number of vehicles disposed of pursuant to an ordinance
adopted pursuant to Section 22710 during the previous fiscal year.
(8) The total expenditures by the service authority for towing and
storage of abandoned vehicles during the previous fiscal year.
(d) Each service authority that fails to submit the report
required pursuant to subdivision (c) by October 31 of each year shall
have its fee pursuant to subdivision (a) suspended for one year
commencing on July 1 following the Controller's determination
pursuant to subdivision (e).
(e) On or before January 1 annually, the Controller shall review
the fiscal yearend reports, submitted by each service authority
pursuant to subdivision (c) and due no later than October 31, to
determine if fee revenues are being utilized in a manner consistent
with the service authority's approved program. If the Controller
determines that the use of the fee revenues is not consistent with
the service authority's program as approved by the Department of the
California Highway Patrol, or that an excess of fee revenues exists,
as specified in subdivision (b), the authority to collect the fee
shall be suspended for one year pursuant to subdivision (b). If the
Controller determines that a service authority has not submitted a
fiscal yearend report as required in subdivision (c), the
authorization to collect the service fee shall be suspended for one
year pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (d). The Controller shall
inform the Department of Motor Vehicles on or before January 1
annually, that the authority to collect the fee is suspended. A
suspension shall only occur if the service authority has been in
existence for at least two full fiscal years and the revenue fee
surpluses are in excess of those allowed under this section, the use
of the fee revenue is not consistent with the service authority's
approved program, or the required fiscal yearend report has not been
submitted by October 31.
(f) On or before January 1, 2010, and biennially thereafter, the
service authority shall have a financial audit of the service
authority conducted by a qualified independent third party.
(g) The fee imposed by a service authority shall remain in effect
only for a period of 10 years from the date that the actual
collection of the fee commenced unless the fee is extended pursuant
to this subdivision. The fee may be extended in increments of up to
10 years each if the board of supervisors of the county, by a
two-thirds vote, and a majority of the cities having a majority of
the incorporated population within the county adopt resolutions
providing for the extension of the fee.