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 to charge an annual registration fee, not to exceed $640. The bill would require any adopted registration fee to be imposedbegin insert onlyend insert 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 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 12211.5 is added to the Business and
2Professions Code, to read:
(a) The county board of supervisors, by ordinance,
4may charge an annual registration fee, not to exceed
six hundred
5forty dollars ($640), in order to recover the county’s actual costs
6of carrying out Section 12211.
7(b) Any registration fee adopted pursuant to subdivision (a)
8shall be chargedbegin insert onlyend insert to a business location operating in the county
9that packs, imports, warehouses, or distributes more than 10,000
10packages or containers per year that intends to sell or distribute
11for sale those packages or containers.
12(c) For purposes of this section, “business location” is defined
13as a business location that packs, imports, warehouses, or
14distributes one or more types of packaged goods or commodities.
15(d) Any ordinance
imposing a registration fee pursuant to
16subdivision (a) shall exempt any person or entity operating a
17business location at which both retail sales and commodity packing
18operations are conducted if the retail sales activities constitute the
19significant majority of its business operations.
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