This chapter is intended to support the South Coast Air Quality Management District's (SCAQMD) imposition of the vehicle registration fee and to bring the city into compliance with the requirements set forth in Health and Safety Code § 44243 in order to receive fee revenues for the purpose of implementing programs to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.
(Code 1980, § 3.44.010; Ord. No. 449, § B, 1991; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)
As applied in this chapter, the following words and terms are defined as follows:
"Fee administrator"
means the finance director of the city or designee.
"Mobile source air pollution reduction programs"
means any program or project implemented by the city to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles which it determines will be consistent with the California Clean Air Act of 1988 or the plan proposed pursuant to the Health and Safety Code § 40460 et seq.
(Code 1980, § 3.44.020; Ord. No. 449, § C, 1991; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)
A. 
Receipt of fee. The additional vehicle registration fees disbursed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and remitted to the city pursuant to this chapter shall be accepted by the fee administrator.
B. 
Establishment of air quality improvement trust fund. The fee administrator shall establish a separate interest-bearing trust fund account in a financial institution authorized to receive deposits of city funds.
C. 
Transfer of funds. Upon receipt of vehicle registration fees, the fee administrator shall deposit funds into the separate account established pursuant to subsection B of this section. All interest earned by the trust fund account shall be credited only to that account.
D. 
Expenditure of air quality trust fund revenues. All revenues received from the SCAQMD and deposited in the trust fund account shall be exclusively expended on mobile source emission reduction programs as defined in section 3.44.020. Such revenues and any interest earned on the revenues shall be expended within one year of the completion of the programs.
E. 
Audits. The city consents to an audit of all programs and projects funded by vehicle registration fee revenues received from the SCAQMD pursuant to Health and Safety Code § 44223. The audit shall be conducted by an independent auditor selected by the SCAQMD as provided in the Health and Safety Code §§ 44244 and 44244.1(a).
(Code 1980, § 3.44.030; Ord. No. 449, § D, 1991; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)
The provisions of this chapter shall be construed as necessary to effectively carry out its purposes, which are found and declared to be in furtherance of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience.
(Code 1980, § 3.44.040; Ord. No. 449, § E, 1991)