Yacht and Ship Brokers Act: licensing.

Existing law requires the Division of Boating and Waterways to publish or cause to be published on or before July 1 of each year a directory of licensed brokers and salespersons and to charge and collect the fees prescribed by the Yacht and Ship Brokers Act in accordance with a specified schedule. Existing law authorizes the division to make rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of the act. This bill would require the division to post the directory on its Internet Web site. The bill would require the division to adopt regulations setting forth the fees to be charged and collected under the act for, among other things, exams, licensing, renewals, and other services provided by the division under the act, and would require the fees to be sufficient to reimburse the division for the reasonable costs of implementing the act. The bill would require that those fees be charged and collected under the act until such time that the division adopts those regulations.