Section 2107 Of Chapter 3. Highway Users Tax Account From California Streets And Highways Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, a
sum equal to the net revenues derived from a per gallon tax of 1.315
cents ($0.01315) under the Motor Vehicle Fuel License Tax Law (Part 2
(commencing with Section 7301) of Division 2), 2.59 cents ($0.0259)
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 monthly to the cities
and cities and counties of this state from the Highway Users Tax
Account in the Transportation Tax Fund as provided in this section.
(b) From the sum determined pursuant to subdivision (a), the
Controller shall allocate annually to each city that has filed a
report containing the information prescribed by subdivision (c) of
Section 2152, and that had expenditures in excess of five thousand
dollars ($5,000) during the preceding fiscal year for snow removal,
an amount equal to one-half of the amount of its expenditures for
snow removal in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) during that
fiscal year.
(c) The balance of the sum determined pursuant to subdivision (a)
from the Highway Users Tax Account shall be allocated to each city,
including city and county, in the proportion that the total
population of the city bears to the total population of all the
cities in this state.
(d) (1) For the purpose of this section, except as otherwise
provided in paragraph (2), the population in each city is the
population determined for that city in the manner specified in
Section 11005.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(2) Commencing with the ninth fiscal year of a city described in
subdivision (a) of Section 11005.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code,
the sixth fiscal year of a city described in subdivision (b) of
Section 11005.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and the 61st month
of the city described in subdivision (c) of Section 11005.3 of the
Revenue and Taxation Code, the population in each city is the actual
population of that city, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section
11005.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(e) (1) Transfers of revenues from the Highway Users Tax Account
to cities 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.
(2) For the purpose of meeting the cash obligations associated
with ongoing budgeted costs, a city may make use of any cash balance
in the city account that is designated for the receipt of state funds
allocated for local streets and roads, 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. Cities 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.
(f) (1) A transfer of revenues from the Highway Users Tax Account
to cities pursuant to this section 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 city may make use of any cash balance
in the city account that is designated for the receipt of state funds
allocated for local streets and roads, 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, and the use of
this cash shall not be reflected as an expenditure of bond act funds,
if the cash is replaced once this suspension is repaid in May 2009.
(3) This subdivision shall not affect any requirement that an
expenditure is required to be accrued and reflected from the
appropriate funding sources for which the moneys were received and to
meet all the requirements of those funding sources.