Vehicle rental agreements: customer facility charge.

Existing law governs contracts between rental car companies and their customers. Existing law authorizes a company that rents passenger vehicles to the public to collect a customer facility charge, which means a fee that is required by an airport to be collected to finance, design, and construct airport car rental facilities, transportation systems, and terminal modifications, if specified circumstances apply. Existing law requires the aggregate amount collected from customer facility charges not exceed the reasonable costs, determined based on an independent audit, to finance, design, and construct those facilities. Existing law requires the audit to be conducted prior to the collection of the customer facility charge, prior to any increase of the charge, and every 3 years after the initial collection of the charge. This bill would provide guidelines regarding the scope of the audit, would require the audit to be posted on the airport's Internet Web site and to be reported to specified legislative committees, and would limit the requirement to conduct the audit every 3 years to those instances where the customer facility charge is used to either operate a common-use transportation system or acquire vehicles for that system.