(a) The department shall charge a fee, to be determined by the department, for the following traffic violator school program activities:

(1) Original issuance of a traffic violator school owner, operator, instructor, and branch or classroom location license.

Terms Used In California Vehicle Code 11208

  • Department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles except, when used in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 2100) of Division 2 and in Divisions 11 (commencing with Section 21000), 12 (commencing with Section 24000), 13 (commencing with Section 29000), 14 (commencing with Section 31600), 14. See California Vehicle Code 290
  • driver: is a person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See California Vehicle Code 305
  • instruction: includes classroom driver education, in-vehicle driver training, and correspondence study. See California Vehicle Code 310.6
  • owner: is a person having all the incidents of ownership, including the legal title of a vehicle whether or not such person lends, rents, or creates a security interest in the vehicle. See California Vehicle Code 460
  • traffic: includes pedestrians, ridden animals, vehicles, street cars, and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any highway for purposes of travel. See California Vehicle Code 620
  • traffic violator school: is a business that, for compensation, provides, or offers to provide, instruction in traffic safety, including, but not limited to, classroom traffic violator curricula, for persons referred by a court pursuant to Section 42005 or to other persons who elect to attend. See California Vehicle Code 626
  • traffic violator school owner: is a ny natural person, association, or corporation that owns a traffic violator school. See California Vehicle Code 626.8

(2) Renewal of a traffic violator school owner, operator, instructor, and branch or classroom location license.

(3) Issuance of a duplicate or corrected traffic violator school owner, operator, instructor, and branch or classroom location license.

(4) Transfer of an operator or instructor license from one traffic violator school to another.

(5) Approval of curriculum, based on the instructional modality of the curriculum.

(6) Fees for administering the examinations pursuant to Sections 11206 and 11207.

(b) The fees authorized under subdivision (a) shall be sufficient to defray the actual cost to the department to administer the traffic violator school program, except for routine monitoring of instruction.

(c) A single administrative fee shall be assessed against, and collected by the court pursuant to Section 42007.1 from, each driver who is allowed or ordered to attend traffic violator school. Included in this fee shall be an amount determined by the department to be sufficient to defray the cost of routine monitoring of traffic violator school instruction.

(d) This section shall become operative on September 1, 2011.

(Repealed (in Sec. 9) and added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 599, Sec. 10. (AB 2499) Effective January 1, 2011. Section operative September 1, 2011, by its own provisions.)