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. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, a sum
equal to the net revenue derived from a per gallon tax of 2.035 cents
($0.02035) under the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Law (Part 2
(commencing with Section 7301) of Division 2), 1.80 cents ($0.0180)
under the Use Fuel Tax Law (Part 3 (commencing with Section 8601) of
Division 2), and 1.80 cents ($0.0180) under the Diesel Fuel Tax Law
(Part 31 (commencing with Section 60001) of Division 2) of the
Revenue and Taxation Code, shall be apportioned among the counties,
as follows:
(a) Each county shall be paid one thousand six hundred sixty-seven
dollars ($1,667) during each calendar month, which amount shall be
expended exclusively for engineering costs and administrative
expenses with respect to county roads.
(b) A sum equal to the total of all reimbursable snow removal or
snow grooming, or both, costs filed pursuant to subdivision (d) of
Section 2152, or seven million dollars ($7,000,000), whichever is
less, shall be apportioned in 12 approximately equal monthly
apportionments for snow removal or snow grooming, or both, on county
roads, as provided in Section 2110.
(c) A sum equal to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) shall
be apportioned in 12 approximately equal monthly apportionments, as
provided in Section 2110.5.
(d) (1) Seventy-five percent of the funds payable under this
section shall be apportioned among the counties monthly in the
respective proportions that the number of fee-paid and exempt
vehicles which are registered in each county bears to the total
number of fee-paid and exempt vehicles registered in the state.
(2) For purposes of apportionment under this subdivision, the
Department of Motor Vehicles shall, as soon as possible after the
last day of each calendar month, furnish to the Controller a verified
statement showing the number of fee-paid and exempt vehicles which
are registered in each county and in the state as of the last day of
each calendar month as reflected by the records of the Department of
Motor Vehicles.
(e) Of the remaining money payable, there shall be paid to each
eligible county an amount that is computed monthly as follows: The
number of miles of maintained county roads in each county shall be
multiplied by sixty dollars ($60); from the resultant amount, there
shall be deducted the amount received by each county under
subdivision (d) and the remainder, if any, shall be paid to each
county.
(f) The remaining money payable, after the foregoing
apportionments, shall be apportioned among the counties in the same
proportion as the money referred to in subdivision (d).
(g) (1) Transfers of revenues from the Highway Users Tax Account
to counties pursuant to this section collected during the months of
March, April, May, June, and July of 2008, shall be made with the
transfer of August 2008 revenues in September of 2008. This
suspension shall not apply to a county with a population of less than
40,000.
(2) For the purpose of meeting the cash obligations associated
with ongoing budgeted costs, a county may make use of any cash
balance in its county road fund, including that resulting from the
receipt of funds pursuant to the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction,
Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (Chapter 12.49
(commencing with Section 8879.20) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the
Government Code (hereafter bond act)) for local streets and roads
maintenance, during the period of this suspension, without the use of
this cash being reflected as an expenditure of bond act funds,
provided the cash is replaced once this suspension is repaid in
September of 2008. Counties may accrue the revenue received in
September 2008 as repayment of these suspensions for the months of
April, May, and June of 2008 back to the 2007-08 fiscal year. Nothing
in this paragraph shall change the fact that expenditures must be
accrued and reflected from the appropriate funding sources for which
the moneys were received and meet all the requirements of those
funding sources.
(h) (1) The transfer of revenues from the Highway Users Tax
Account to counties pursuant to this section that are collected
during the months of January, February, and March 2009, shall be made
with the transfer of April 2009 revenues in May 2009.
(2) For the purpose of meeting the cash obligations associated
with ongoing budgeted costs, a county may make use of any cash
balance in its county road fund, including that resulting from the
receipt of funds pursuant to the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction,
Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006 (Chapter 12.49
(commencing with Section 8879.20) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the
Government Code (bond act)) for local streets and roads maintenance
during the period of this suspension, provided the cash is replaced
once this suspension is repaid in May of 2009.
(3) This subdivision shall not affect any requirement that an
expenditure is required to be accrued and reflected from the
appropriate funding source for which the money was received and to
meet all the requirements of its funding source.