Bill Text: CA AB2589 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Weights and measures: county sealers: county ordinance: annual registration fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-28 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Bloom. [AB2589 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2589-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2589	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 12211.5 to the Business and Professions
Code, relating to weights and measures.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 imposed  only
 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 1.  Section 12211.5 is added to the Business and
Professions Code, to read:
   12211.5.  (a) The county board of supervisors, by ordinance, may
charge an annual registration fee, not to exceed six hundred forty
dollars ($640), in order to recover the county's actual costs of
carrying out Section 12211.
   (b) Any registration fee adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be charged only  to 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.
   (c) For purposes of this section, "business location" is defined
as a business location that packs, imports, warehouses, or
distributes one or more types of packaged goods or commodities.
   (d) Any ordinance imposing a registration fee pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall 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.