Montclair Municipal Code Ch. 3.12 Air-Quality Improvement Trust Fund

This chapter is intended to support the South Coast Air Quality Management District's (SCAQMD's) imposition of the vehicle registration fee and to bring the City into compliance with the requirements set forth in the Health and Safety Code in order to receive fee revenues for the purpose of implementing programs to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles.

(Ord. 99-791 Exh. A (part); prior code § 3-2.301)

A. Receipt of Fee. The additional vehicle registration fees shall be disbursed by SCAQMD and remitted to the City pursuant to this chapter.

B. Establishment of Air-Quality Improvement Trust Fund. There shall be established a separate interest-bearing trust fund account in a financial institution authorized to receive deposits of City funds.

C. Transfer of Funds. Such vehicle registration fees shall be deposited into the separate account established pursuant to subsection B of this section. All interest earned by the Trust Fund Account shall be credited only to that account.

D. Expenditure of Air-Quality Trust Fund Revenues. All revenues received from SCAQMD and deposited in the trust fund shall be exclusively expended on mobile source emission-reduction programs as defined in Chapter 3.02 of this title. Such revenues and any interest earned on the revenues shall be expended within one year of the completion of the programs.

E. Audits. The City consents to an audit of all programs and projects funded by vehicle registration fee revenues received from SCAQMD pursuant to of the Health and Safety Code. The audit shall be conducted by an independent auditor selected by SCAQMD as provided in the Health and Safety Code.

(Ord. 99-791 Exh. A (part); prior code § 3-2.303)