ARTICLE 5. Financial Provisions [42885. - 42889.4.]

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC 5.

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Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42885. Section 42885.

(a) For purposes of this section, “California tire fee” means the fee imposed pursuant to this section. (b) (1) A person who purchases a new tire, as defined in subdivision (g), shall pay a California tire fee of one dollar and seventy-five cents ($1.75) per tire. (2) The retail seller shall charge the retail purchaser the amount of the California tire fee as a charge that is separate from, and not included in, any other fee, charge, or other amount paid by the retail purchaser. (3) The retail seller shall collect the California tire fee from the retail purchaser at the time of sale and may retain 1 1 2 percent of the fee as reimbursement for any costs associated with the collection of the fee. The retail seller shall remit the remainder to the state on a quarterly schedule for deposit in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. (c) The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration shall collect the California tire fee pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law (Part 30 (commencing with Section 55001)) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code. For purposes of this section, the reference in the Fee Collection Procedures Law to “feepayer” shall include a person required to pay the fee imposed by this section, which includes the retail seller. (d) The California tire fee imposed pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be separately stated by the retail seller on the invoice given to the customer at the time of sale. Any other disposal or transaction fee charged by the retail seller related to the tire purchase shall be identified separately from the California tire fee. (e) A person or business who knowingly, or with reckless disregard, makes a false statement or representation in a document used to comply with this section is liable for a civil penalty for each violation or, for continuing violations, for each day that the violation continues. Liability under this section may be imposed in a civil action and shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each violation. (f) In addition to the civil penalty that may be imposed pursuant to subdivision (e), the department may impose an administrative penalty in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each violation of a separate provision or, for continuing violations, for each day that the violation continues, on a person who intentionally or negligently violates a permit, rule, regulation, standard, or requirement issued or adopted pursuant to this chapter. The department shall adopt regulations that specify the amount of the administrative penalty and the procedure for imposing an administrative penalty pursuant to this subdivision. (g) For purposes of this section, “new tire” means a pneumatic or solid tire intended for use with onroad or off-road motor vehicles, motorized equipment, construction equipment, or farm equipment that is sold separately from the motorized equipment, or a new tire sold with a new or used motor vehicle, as defined in Section 42803.5, including the spare tire, construction equipment, or farm equipment. “New tire” does not include retreaded, reused, or recycled tires. (h) The California tire fee shall not be imposed on a tire sold with, or sold separately for use on, any of the following: (1) A self-propelled wheelchair. (2) A motorized tricycle or motorized quadricycle, as defined in Section 407 of the Vehicle Code. (3) A vehicle that is similar to a motorized tricycle or motorized quadricycle and is designed to be operated by a person who, by reason of the person’s physical disability, is otherwise unable to move about as a pedestrian. (i) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2034, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2034, deletes or extends that date.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42885.5. Section 42885.5.

(a) The department shall adopt a five-year plan, which shall be updated every two years, to establish goals and priorities for the waste tire program and each program element. (b) On or before July 1, 2001, and every two years thereafter, the department shall submit the adopted five-year plan to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The department shall include in the plan elements addressing programmatic and fiscal issues, including, but not limited to, the hierarchy used by the department to maximize productive uses of waste and used tires, and the performance objectives and measurement criteria used by the department to evaluate the success of its waste and used tire recycling program. Additionally, based upon performance measures developed by the department, the plan shall describe the effectiveness of each element of the program, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) Enforcement and regulations relating to the storage of waste and used tires. (2) Cleanup, abatement, or other remedial action related to waste tire stockpiles throughout the state. (3) Research directed at promoting and developing alternatives to the landfill disposal of waste tires. (4) Market development and new technology activities for used tires and waste tires. (5) The waste and used tire hauler program, the registration of, and reporting by, tire brokers, and the manifest system. (6) A description of the grants, loans, contracts, and other expenditures proposed to be made by the department under the tire recycling program. (7) Until June 30, 2015, the grant program authorized under Section 42872.5 to encourage the use of waste tires, including, but not limited to, rubberized asphalt concrete technology, in public works projects. (8) Border region activities, conducted in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (A) Training programs to assist Mexican waste and used tire haulers meet the requirements for hauling those tires in California. (B) Environmental education training. (C) In coordination with the California-Mexico Border Relations Council, development of a waste tire abatement plan, which may also provide for the abatement of solid waste, with the appropriate government entities of California and Mexico. (D) Tracking both the legal and illegal waste and used tire flow across the border and recommending revisions to the waste tire policies of California and Mexico. (E) Coordination with businesses operating in the border region and with Mexico, with regard to applying the same environmental and control requirements throughout the border region. (F) Development of projects in Mexico in the California-Mexico border region, as defined by the La Paz Agreement, that include, but are not limited to, education, infrastructure, mitigation, cleanup, prevention, reuse, and recycling projects, that address the movement of used tires from California to Mexico, and support the cleanup of illegally disposed waste tires and solid waste along the border that could negatively impact California’s environment. (9) Grants to certified community conservation corps and community conservation corps, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of, and paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of, Section 17001, for purposes of the programs specified in paragraphs (2) and (6) and for related education and outreach. (c) The department shall base the budget for the California Tire Recycling Act and program funding on the plan. (d) The plan may not propose financial or other support that promotes, or provides for research for the incineration of tires.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42885.7. Section 42885.7.

(a) To the extent feasible, the department shall strengthen the California tire tracking system to quantify more precisely the number of used tires flowing from California, and from other states through California, into the State of Baja California, Mexico, and the nearby State of Sonora, Mexico. (b) To the extent feasible, the department shall work with United States Customs and Border Protection to obtain detailed data on California used tire exports to the State of Baja California, Mexico, including, but not limited to, exports of wrecked vehicles for auto dismantlers.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42886. Section 42886.

The fees remitted pursuant to Section 42885 are due and payable quarterly on or before the 15th day of the month following each calendar quarter.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42886.1. Section 42886.1.

(a) The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, if it deems it necessary in order to ensure payment to or facilitate the collection by the state of the amount of fees, may require returns and payment of the amount of fees for a yearly period. (b) On or before the 15th day of the month following each designated yearly period, a return for the preceding designated yearly period shall be filed with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration in the form as the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration may prescribe.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42887. Section 42887.

Except in the case of fraud, intent to evade this chapter or rules and regulations adopted to implement this chapter, or failure to file a return, the notice of a deficiency determination shall be mailed within three years after the amount that is proposed to be determined was due or within three years after the return is filed, whichever period expires later. In the case of failure to file a return, the notice of determination shall be mailed within eight years after the amount that is proposed to be determined was due.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42888. Section 42888.

(a) Except as agreed to by the board, no refund shall be approved by the board after three years from the date the payment was due for which the overpayment was made, or with respect to deficiency or jeopardy determinations, after six months from the date the determinations become final, or after six months from the date of overpayment, whichever period expires later, unless a claim therefor is filed with the board within that period. No credit shall be approved by the board after the expiration of that period, unless a claim for credit is filed with the board within that period or unless the credit relates to a period for which a waiver is given by the board. (b) A refund may be approved by the board for any period agreed to by the board for good cause if a claim for the referral is filed with the board before the expiration of the period agreed upon.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42889. Section 42889.

(a) All revenues, interest, and penalties derived from the California Tire Fee, less refunds and reimbursement to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration for expenses incurred in the administration and collection of the fee imposed by this article, shall be deposited as follows: (1) An amount equal to seventy-five cents ($0.75) per tire on which the fee is imposed shall be deposited in the Air Pollution Control Fund. The state board shall expend those moneys, or allocate those moneys to the districts for expenditure, to fund programs and projects that mitigate or remediate air pollution caused by tires in the state, to the extent that the state board or the applicable district determines that the program or project remediates air pollution harms created by tires upon which the fee described in Section 42885 is imposed. (2) The remaining moneys collected pursuant to Section 42885 shall be deposited in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund to fund the waste tire program, and shall be appropriated to the department in the annual Budget Act in a manner consistent with the five-year plan adopted and updated by the department. These moneys shall be expended for the payment of refunds under this chapter and for the following purposes: (A) To pay the administrative overhead cost of this chapter, not to exceed 6 percent of the total revenue deposited in the fund annually, or an amount otherwise specified in the annual Budget Act. (B) To pay the costs associated with operating the tire recycling program specified in Article 3 (commencing with Section 42870). (C) To pay the costs associated with the development and enforcement of regulations relating to the storage of waste tires and used tires. The department shall consider designating a city, county, or city and county as the enforcement authority of regulations relating to the storage of waste tires and used tires, as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 42850, and regulations relating to the hauling of waste and used tires, as provided in subdivision (b) of Section 42963. If the department designates a local entity for that purpose, the department shall provide sufficient, stable, and noncompetitive funding to that entity for that purpose, based on available resources, as provided in the five-year plan adopted and updated as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 42885.5. The department may consider and create, as appropriate, financial incentives for citizens who report the illegal hauling or disposal of waste tires as a means of enhancing local and statewide waste tire and used tire enforcement programs. (D) To pay the costs of cleanup, abatement, removal, or other remedial action related to waste tire stockpiles throughout the state, including all approved costs incurred by other public agencies involved in these activities by contract with the department. Not less than six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000) shall be expended by the department during each of the following fiscal years for this purpose: 2001–02 to 2006–07, inclusive. (E) To make studies and conduct research directed at promoting and developing alternatives to the landfill disposal of waste tires. (F) To assist in developing markets and new technologies for used tires and waste tires. The department’s expenditure of funds for purposes of this subdivision shall reflect the priorities for waste management practices specified in subdivision (a) of Section 40051. (G) To pay the costs associated with implementing and operating a waste tire and used tire hauler program and manifest system pursuant to Chapter 19 (commencing with Section 42950). (H) To pay the costs to create and maintain an emergency reserve, which shall not exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000). (I) To pay the costs of cleanup, abatement, or other remedial action related to the disposal of waste tires in implementing and operating the Farm and Ranch Solid Waste Cleanup and Abatement Grant Program established pursuant to Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 48100) of Part 7. (J) To fund border region activities specified in paragraph (8) of subdivision (b) of Section 42885.5. (K) For expenditure pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of, and paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of, Section 17001. (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2034, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2034, deletes or extends that date.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 42889.4. Section 42889.4.

If facilities are permitted to burn tires in the previous calendar year, the State Air Resources Board, in conjunction with air pollution control districts and air quality management districts, shall post on its Web site, updated on or before July 1 of the subsequent year, information summarizing the types and quantities of air emissions, if any, from those facilities.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026