The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission for approval and adoption. Existing law requires that all building standards shall be administered and enforced and, whenever practicable, written on a performance basis consistent with state and nationally recognized standards for building construction. Existing law authorizes a city or county to make changes or modifications in the requirements contained in the provisions published in the California Building Standards Code and other specified regulations, including, but not limited to, changes or modifications to green building standards. This bill would, notwithstanding existing law, authorize the County of Marin and another, unspecified city, county, or city and county to adopt a pilot program for green innovation building permits to promote and facilitate innovation and research regarding environmentally sustainable building materials, methods, and designs not yet considered or addressed in the state's building codes. The bill would impose certain reporting requirements on a city, county, or city and county that adopts a pilot program relating to the scope, designs, modifications, administration, and performance measures of the pilot program and the permits issued. The bill would also impose specified duties on a city, county, or city and county that adopts a pilot program, including the duty to issue no more than 10 permits per year for a period of 5 years following the adoption of a pilot program pursuant to its provisions. The bill would prohibit, after this 5-year period, the city, county, or city and county from issuing new permits under the pilot program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Marin and ____.
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Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill would impose a tax upon any producer for the privilege of severing oil from the earth or water in this state for sale, transport, consumption, storage, profit, or use, as provided, at the rate of 10% of the gross value of each barrel of oil severed. The tax would be administered by the State Board of Equalization and would be collected pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. This bill would require the Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources in the Department of Conservation to make specified certifications and determinations regarding certain oil wells, and to notify the board of the certification or determination. The bill would require the board to deposit all revenues collected pursuant to these provisions, less refunds and reimbursement to the board for expenses incurred in the administration and collection of the tax, into the General Fund. Because this bill would expand the scope of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill would result in a change in state taxes for the purpose of increasing state revenues within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but its operative date would depend on its effective date.
This measure would designate the first week of March of each year as Cuss Free Week.
(1) Existing law generally prohibits the state, or a county, city, district, or other political subdivision, or any public officer or body acting in its official capacity on behalf of any of those entities, from being required to pay any fee for the performance of an official service. Existing law exempts from this provision any fee or charge for official services required pursuant to specified provisions of law relating to water use or water quality. This bill would expand the exemption to other provisions relating to water use, including provisions that require the payment of fees to the State Water Resources Control Board (board) for official services relating to statements of water diversion and use. (2) Existing law authorizes the board to investigate all streams, stream systems, lakes, or other bodies of water, take testimony relating to the rights to water or the use of water, and ascertain whether water filed upon or attempted to be appropriated is appropriated under the laws of the state. Existing law requires the board to take appropriate actions to prevent waste or the unreasonable use of water. Under existing law, the board makes determinations with regard to the availability of recycled water. This bill would authorize the board, in conducting an investigation or proceeding for these purposes, to order any person or entity that diverts water or uses water to submit a technical or monitoring report related to the diversion or use of water by that person or entity, if the report is in that person's or entity's possession or control, and would authorize the board to require specified persons and entities to prepare and submit technical and monitoring reports. The bill would authorize the board, in connection with the investigation or proceeding, and with the consent of the owner or possessor of the facilities or pursuant to a warrant, to inspect the facilities of any person or entity to determine compliance with specified water use requirements. (3) Existing law declares that the diversion or use of water other than as authorized by specified provisions of law is a trespass. Existing law authorizes the administrative imposition of civil liability by the board for a trespass in an amount not to exceed $500 for each day in which the trespass occurs. Moneys generated by the imposition of civil liability under these provisions are deposited in the Water Rights Fund. This bill would provide that, for a first enforcement proceeding, a person or entity committing a trespass may be liable either in an amount not to exceed the sum of $1,000 for each day in which the trespass occurs, if the unauthorized diversion or use does not exceed 1,000 acre feet, or, if the unauthorized diversion or use exceeds 1,000 acre feet, in an amount not to exceed the sum of either $1,000 for each day in which the trespass occurs or the economic benefit of the violation, as specified, whichever is the greater amount. For a subsequent enforcement proceeding, the bill would provide that the person or entity committing the trespass may be liable in an amount not to exceed either $5,000 for each day in which the trespass occurs, as specified, or the economic benefit of the violation, as defined, whichever is the greater amount. The moneys would be required to be deposited in the Water Rights Fund, as specified. (4) Existing law, with certain exceptions, requires each person who diverts water after December 31, 1965, to file with the board a prescribed statement of diversion and use. Existing law requires a statement to include specified information, including, on and after January 1, 2012, monthly records of water diversions. This bill would establish a rebuttable presumption, as specified, in any proceeding before the board in which it is alleged that a right to appropriate water has ceased or is subject to prescribed action, that no use required to be included in a statement of diversion and use occurred unless that use is included in a statement that is submitted to the board within a specified time period. The bill would require certain statements submitted to the board, that are canceled for nonpayment of fees, to be deemed submitted for purposes of that presumption. The bill would require a person who files a statement of diversion and use, and certain petitions involving a change in a water right, to pay an annual fee, for deposit in the Water Rights Fund. The bill would include as recoverable costs, for which the board may be reimbursed from the fund upon appropriation therefor, costs incurred in connection with carrying out requirements relating to the statements of diversion and use and the performance of duties under provisions that require the reasonable use of water. (5) Existing law authorizes the board to issue a cease and desist order against a person who is violating, or threatening to violate, certain requirements, including requirements set forth in a decision or order relating to the unauthorized use of water. Any person who violates a cease and desist order may be liable in an amount not to exceed $1,000 for each day in which the violation occurs. Revenue generated from these penalties is deposited in the Water Rights Fund. This bill would increase, as specified, the civil penalties that apply to a person who violates a cease and desist order. The bill would impose civil liability, in an amount not to exceed $500 for each day in which a violation occurs, for a failure to comply with various reporting or monitoring requirements. The bill would authorize the board to impose additional civil liability, in an amount not to exceed $500 for each day in which a violation occurs, for the violation of a permit, license, certificate, or registration, or an order or regulation involving the unreasonable use of water. The board would be required to establish a schedule of penalties that applies to small farms for de minimis water right violations. Funds derived from the imposition of these civil penalties would be deposited in the Water Rights Fund, as specified.
This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4708 celebration.
The California Constitution conditions the imposition of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 23 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax, and prohibits these entities from imposing an ad valorem tax on real property or a transactions or sales tax on the sale of real property. This measure would alternatively condition the imposition, extension, or increase of a parcel tax, as defined, by a school district, community college district, or county office of education upon the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition, if the proposition meets specified requirements. This measure would also make conforming changes to related provisions.
This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
This resolution would respectfully request that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.
This measure would declare February 19, 2010, as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Existing law authorizes a city that has entered into a reciprocal agreement, as defined, with the Franchise Tax Board to exchange tax information, as provided, but limits the use of that information to employees of the taxing authority of a city. This bill would expand that limitation by authorizing any agent designated by resolution of the city to examine all of the tax information, provided that the resolution certifies that the designated agent satisfies specified conditions.