40220.7.
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 40220 and 40220.5, beginning July 1, 2020, a processing agency shall not file an itemization of unpaid parking penalties and related service fees with the department for collection with the registration of the vehicle pursuant to Section 4760 unless all of the following conditions are met:(1) (A) The processing agency provides a community service option for homeless individuals that, at a minimum, does all of the following:
(i) Allows a person to use the community service option to pay off unpaid parking penalties and related fees for at least 10 parking citations, or total amounts due of at least fifteen hundred dollars
($1,500), per calendar year.
(ii) Requires a person to complete no more than 50 hours of community service per year, except that the processing agency may require additional hours for safety violations.
(iii) Allows a person at least 90 days to complete the community service option. The 90-day period may be extended at the discretion of the processing agency.
(iv) Allows a person to earn community service hours by seeking or obtaining support services.
(B) A processing agency may partner with a city, county, city and county, or continuum of care formed pursuant to Sections 11381 to 11389, inclusive, of Title 42 of the United States Code to administer the community service option and identify participating social service agencies.
(C) An issuing agency may limit participation in the community service option to only the registered owner of the vehicle that received the parking citation. If the registration of a vehicle has expired, the owner shall show that the owner made a bona fide effort to register the vehicle.
(2) (A) The notice of parking violation includes the information described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) and a telephone number and website where the recipient of a parking violation can obtain information about the community service option.
(B) The internet website of the processing agency includes a telephone number and a link to a website where the recipient of a parking violation can obtain information about the community service option.
(C) The website described in this paragraph shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(i) A statement regarding the availability of a community service option and an explanation of the community service option.
(ii) Information regarding the deadlines and procedures for applying for the community service option.
(iii) A statement regarding a person’s right to request a determination of the person’s eligibility for the community service option.
(iv) Information regarding the deadlines and procedures for requesting an eligibility determination, including, but not limited to, an explanation of how the processing agency will make the determination and a list of documents required by the processing agency to make the determination.
(3) The registered owner or lessee fails to enroll in the community service option within the time specified in the notice of parking violation or is not eligible for the community service option.
(b) The processing agency shall rescind the filing of an itemization of unpaid parking penalties and service fees with the department for a homeless individual, for one time only, if the registered owner or lessee enrolls in a community service option and pays a late fee of no more than five dollars ($5).
(c) A person is “homeless” for purposes of this section if the person meets all of the following criteria:
(1) The person is “indigent” as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 40220.
(2) The
person is “homeless” as provided in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as that section read on January 10, 2019.
(3) The person has been entered into a Homeless Management Information System, as defined in Section 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, or a comparable database used by a victim service or legal service provider, as authorized by Section 576.107 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.