It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to:
A. Express support for the adoption of motor vehicle registration fees to be used to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles pursuant to the California Clean Air Act of 1988 and plans adopted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
B. Require all fee revenues received by the city pursuant to Section 44220 et seq. of the Health and Safety Code to be spent to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.
C. Establish an air quality improvement trust fund into which all fee revenues distributed to the city pursuant to Section 44220 et seq. of the Health and Safety Code shall be deposited, and out of which expenditures shall be made, to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.
D. Enable the city to receive its share of the fee revenues generated by the South Coast Air Quality Management District which are to be distributed by the district to cities and counties located in the south coast district.
(Ord. 47 § 2 (part), 1992: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 13.10.010)
As applied in this chapter, the following words and terms shall be defined as follows:
"City" means the city of Murrieta.
"Mobile source air pollution reduction programs" means any program or project implemented by the city to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles which it determines is consistent with the California Clean Air Act of 1988 or the plans adopted by the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
“Fee administrator” means the finance director of the city or his or her designee. (Ord. 47 § 2 (part), 1992: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 13.10.020)
A. Fee Revenues. The fee revenues distributed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District to the city pursuant to Section 44243 of the Health and Safety Code shall be accepted by the fee administrator and deposited into a separate interest-bearing trust fund account in a financial institution authorized to receive deposits of city funds. All interest earned by the trust fund account shall be credited only to that account.
B. Expenditure of Air Quality Trust Revenues. All revenues distributed to the city by the South Coast Air Quality Management District pursuant to Section 44243 of the Health and Safety Code and deposited in the trust fund account pursuant to this chapter shall be expended solely on mobile source emission reduction programs. Such revenues, and any interest earned on the revenues, shall be expended within one year of the completion of the programs.
C. Audits. The city consents to an audit of all programs and projects funded by fee revenues received pursuant to Section 44243 of the Health and Safety Code. The audit may be conducted by an independent auditor selected by the South Coast Air Quality Management District as provided in Sections 44244 and 44244.1(a) of the Health and Safety Code, or the audit may be conducted by the city as part of its regular annual audit. In either case, the cost of the audit may be charged against the trust fund.
(Ord. 47 § 2 (part), 1992: Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 13.10.040)