(a) (1) The state board shall assess a compliance fee, not to exceed thirty dollars ($30), to fund the reasonable costs of implementing the program. A fee assessed pursuant to this section shall be limited exclusively to covering the costs of the program and shall be structured to ensure the equitable distribution of any costs among feepayers.

(2) The compliance fee and the maximum amount allowable shall be adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index as compiled and reported by the Department of Labor Relations.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 44154

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23

(b) All fees collected by the state board pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Truck Emission Check (TEC) Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. All moneys in the fund shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature to the state board for the regulatory purposes of the program.

(c) All penalty moneys collected by the state board pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund.

(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 298, Sec. 2. (SB 210) Effective January 1, 2020.)

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