Section 105190 Of Article 2. Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 103. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 2.
105190
. (a) A fee shall be paid annually to the State Board of
Equalization by employers in industries identified by the four-digit
Standard Industrial Classification (S.I.C., 1987 Edition) established
by the United States Department of Commerce and for which the State
Board of Equalization has received information from the department of
documented evidence of potential occupational lead poisoning.
(b) The department shall provide to the State Board of
Equalization on or before the first day of November of each year, all
information for the prior three-year period obtained by the
California Blood Lead Registry, regarding evidence of potential
occupational lead poisoning by the Standard Industrial
Classification. Based on this information, the State Board of
Equalization shall determine whether an employer is within Category A
of the Standard Industrial Classification or within Category B of
the Standard Industrial Classification and shall implement the fee
schedule set forth in subdivision (c). For the purpose of this
subdivision and subdivision (c), a Category A Standard Industrial
Classification code is a Standard Industrial Classification code
listed in Section 105195 for which there have been fewer than 20
persons with elevated blood lead levels reported to the California
Blood Lead Registry in the prior three-year period. A Category B
Standard Industrial Classification code is a Standard Industrial
Classification code listed in Section 105195 for which there have
been 20 or more persons with elevated blood lead levels reported to
the California Blood Lead Registry in the prior three-year period. An
elevated blood lead level is a level greater than or equal to 25
micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood.
(c) For employers with 10 or more employees, but less than 100
employees, in a Category A Standard Industrial Classification code,
the annual fee shall be one hundred ninety-five dollars ($195). For
employers with 100 or more employees, but fewer than 500 employees,
in a Category A Standard Industrial Classification code, the annual
fee shall be three hundred ninety dollars ($390). For employers with
500 or more employees in a Category A Standard Industrial
Classification code, the annual fee shall be nine hundred
seventy-five dollars ($975). For employers with 10 or more employees,
but fewer than 100 employees, in a Category B Standard Industrial
Classification code, the annual fee shall be two hundred seventy-nine
dollars ($279). For employers with 100 or more employees, but fewer
than 500 employees, in a Category B Standard Industrial
Classification code, the annual fee shall be seven hundred eighty-one
dollars ($781). For employers with 500 or more employees in a
Category B Standard Industrial Classification code, the annual fee
shall be two thousand two hundred thirty-two dollars ($2,232). For
the purpose of this subdivision, an employer is any person defined in
Section 25118 of the Health and Safety Code. Employers with fewer
than 10 employees are not subject to any fees pursuant to this
section.
(d) The fees imposed in subdivision (c) are the rates for calendar
year 1995 and shall be adjusted annually by the State Board of
Equalization to reflect increases or decreases in the cost of living
during the prior fiscal year as measured by the Consumer Price Index
issued by the Department of Industrial Relations, or a successor
agency. This adjustment of fees shall not be subject to the
requirements of Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1
of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
(e) In no event shall the annual fee exceed the cost of the
program described in Section 105185. The department may exempt from
payment of fees those employers who demonstrate that lead is not
present in their places of employment. The cost of the program
described in Section 105185 shall not exceed the amount of revenue
collected from the annual fee.
(f) The fee imposed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be paid by
each employer which is identified in the schedule in accordance with
Part 22 (commencing with Section 43001) of Division 2 of the Revenue
and Taxation Code and shall be deposited in the Occupational Lead
Poisoning Prevention Account of the General Fund, which is hereby
created, to be expended for the purposes of the Occupational Lead
Poisoning Prevention Program, including the cost of administering the
fees by the State Board of Equalization, upon appropriation by the
Legislature.