(a) Upon the completion of a scheduled cleanup and abatement of litter pursuant to an agreement with an adopter entered into pursuant to Section 91.5, the department may provide a two hundred fifty dollar ($250) stipend to the adopter.

(b) Notwithstanding any other law, an adopter provided a stipend pursuant to this section is not an employee of the state.

Terms Used In California Streets and Highways Code 91.4

(c) For purposes of this section, “adopter” is defined as in Section 2621 of Title 21 of the California Code of Regulations.

(d) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2024, and, as of January 1, 2025, is repealed.

(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 81, Sec. 15. (AB 149) Effective July 16, 2021. Inoperative June 30, 2024, by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1, 2025, by its own provisions.)