The City of San Bernardino hereby finds and declares that:
1. The City is committed to improving the public health, safety and welfare, including air quality.
2. Mobile sources are a major contributor to air pollution in the South Coast Air Basin.
3. Air quality goals for the region established by state law cannot be met without reducing air pollution from mobile sources.
4. The South Coast Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) calls upon cities and counties to reduce emissions from motor vehicles consistent with the requirements of the California Clean Air Act of 1988 by developing and implementing mobile source air pollution reduction programs.
5. To the extent that such programs place demands upon the City's funds, those programs should be financed by shifting the responsibility for financing from the general fund to the motor vehicles creating the demand, to the greatest extent possible.
6. Health and Safety Code, Section 44223, added by action of the California Legislature on September 30, 1990, (Stats. 1990, Ch. 1705), authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to impose an additional motor vehicle registration fee of Two Dollars ($2.00), commencing on April 1, 1991, increasing to Four Dollars ($4.00), commencing on April 1, 1992, to finance the implementation of transportation measures embodied in the AQMP and provisions of the California Clean Air Act.
7. Forty Cents ($.40) of every dollar collected under Section 44223 of the Health and Safety Code shall be distributed to cities and counties located in the South Coast Air Quality Management District that comply with Section 44243 based on the jurisdiction's prorated share of population as defined by the State Department of Finance.
8. The City is located within the South Coast Air Quality Management District and is eligible to receive a portion of revenues from the motor vehicle registration fees upon adoption of this Chapter.
9. The City, after careful consideration, hereby finds and declares that the imposition of the motor vehicle registration fee by the SCAQMD to finance mobile source air pollution reduction programs is in the best interest of the general welfare of the City and its residents.
Therefore, the City deems it advisable to adopt this Chapter.
(Ord. MC-784, 5-07-91)