BILL NUMBER: AB 2589	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 12211.5 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to weights and measures.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2589, as amended, Bloom. Weights and measures: county sealers:
county ordinance: annual registration fee.
   Existing law governing weights and measures provides that there is
in each county the office of county sealer, as defined, of weights
and measures to administer those provisions, as specified. Existing
law requires a county sealer to weigh and measure packages,
containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in the process of
delivery, in order to determine whether they contain the quantity or
amount represented and whether they are being sold in accordance with
law.
   In order to recover the  actual  costs of carrying out
these provisions, this bill would authorize a  county  board
of supervisors  of a county  to charge an annual
registration fee, not to exceed  the county's total cost of
actually weighing and measuring packages, containers, or amounts of
commodities sold, or in the process of delivery, in order to
determine whether they contain the quantity or amount represented and
whether they are being sold in accordance with law  
$640  . The bill would require any adopted registration fee to
be imposed on a business location operating in the county that packs,
imports, warehouses, or distributes more than 10,000 packages or
containers per year that intends to sell or distribute for sale those
packages or containers  . The bill would require an
ordinance imposing a registration fee   and  to
exempt any person or entity operating a business location at which
both retail sales and commodity packing operations are conducted if
the retail sales activities constitute the significant majority of
its business operations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12211.5 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   12211.5.  (a)  In order to recover the costs of carrying
out Section 12211, the   The  county board of
supervisors, by ordinance, may charge an annual registration fee, not
to exceed  the county's total cost of actually weighing and
measuring packages, containers, or amounts of commodities sold, or in
the process of delivery, in order to determine whether they contain
the quantity or amount represented and whether they are being sold in
accordance with law.   six hundred forty dollars
($640), in order to recover the county's actual costs of carrying out
Section 12211. 
   (b) Any registration fee adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be charged to a business location operating in the county that
packs, imports, warehouses, or distributes more than 10,000 packages
or containers per year that intends to sell or distribute for sale
those packages or containers.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "business location" is defined
as a business location that packs, imports, warehouses, or
distributes one or more types of packaged goods or commodities.
   (d) Any ordinance imposing a registration fee pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall exempt any person or entity operating a
business location at which both retail sales and commodity packing
operations are conducted if the retail sales activities constitute
the significant majority of its business operations.