Vehicle registration fees.

Existing law authorizes a county, upon the adoption of a resolution by its board of supervisors, to impose a fee of $1 on all motor vehicles, except as provided, in addition to other fees imposed for the registration of a vehicle. Existing law requires registered owners of a commercial vehicle in a county that has so imposed that $1 fee to pay an additional $2 fee. Existing law requires the county, after deducting administrative costs, to pay those fees to the Controller quarterly. Existing law continuously appropriates the money generated by these fees to the Controller for disbursement to each county that has adopted a resolution as described above, and limits the expenditure of the money so disbursed to certain purposes related to law enforcement. This bill would additionally authorize a county, that has adopted the resolution to impose the $1 fee, to increase that fee to $2 in the same manner that it imposed the initial $1 fee. The bill would alternatively authorize a county that has not adopted a $1 fee to impose an initial $2 fee in the same manner that it is authorized to impose a $1 fee. If a county imposes a $2 fee pursuant to these provisions, the bill would increase the additional $2 fee on commercial vehicles to $4. The bill would require the county to submit resolutions to impose or increase fees pursuant to these provisions to the Department of Motor Vehicles at least 6 months prior to the operative date of the fee. This bill makes an appropriation by authorizing a county to increase the amount of fees that are continuously appropriated to the Controller.