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No. 1991-918NO. 918 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LARE ELSINORE TO REGULATE MOBILE SOURCE AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION The City Council of the City of Lake Elsinore, does hereby ordain as follows: Section 1: Chapter 10 of the City Code is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section 10.64 to read as follows: Section 10.64: Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction A: Findings The City of Lake Elsinore hereby finds and declares that: (1) Whereas, the City is committed to improving the public health, safety and welfare, including air quality; (2) Whereas, mobile sources are a major contributor to air pollution in the South Coast Air Basin; (3) Whereas, air quality goals for the region established by state law cannot be met without reducing air pollution from mobile sources; (4) Whereas, 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 1988 by developing and implementing mobile source air pollution reduction programs; (5) Whereas, 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) Whereas, Section 44223, added to the Health and Safety Code by action of the California Legislature on September 30, 1990 (Chapter 90-1705), authorizes the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to impose additional motor vehicle registration fee of two dollars ($2), commencing on April 1, 1991, increasing to four dollars ($4), 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) whereas, forty cents 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 of the code, based on the jurisdictions' pro-rated share of population as defined by the State Department of Finance. (8) Whereas, the City is located within the South Coast Air Quality Management District and is eligible to receive a portion of the revenues from the additional motor vehicle registration fees contingent upon adoption of this ordinance; (9) Whereas, the pro-rated share of the fee revenues for cities that fail to adopt an ordinance pursuant to Section 44243 (B) (3) of the Health and Safety Code shall be distributed instead to the jurisdictions within the District that have adopted an ordinance; ORDINANCE NO. 918 PAGE TWO (10) Now, therefore be it resolved that, the City, after careful consideration, hereby finds and declares that the imposition of the additional motor vehicle registration fee by the SCAQMD to finance mobile source air pollution reduction programs is in the best interest of the city and promotes the general welfare of its residents; B. Intent. This ordinance is intended to support the SCAQMD's imposition of the vehicle registration fee and. to bring the City into compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 44243 of the Health and Safety Code in order to receive fee revenues for the purpose of implementing programs to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles. C. Definitions As applied in this Ordinance, the following words and terms shall be defined as follows: (1) "City"shall mean the City of Lake Elsinore. (2) "Mobile source air pollution reduction programs" shall mean any program or project implemented by the City to reduce air pollution from motor vehicles which it determines will be consistent with the California Clean Air Act of 1988 or the plan proposed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 40460) of Chapter 5.5 of Part 3 of the California Health and Safety Code. (3) "Fee Administrator" shall mean the Finance Director of the City or his designee. D. Administration of Vehicle Registration Fee (1) Receipt of Fee: The additional vehicle registration fees disbursed by SCAQMD and remitted to the City, pursuant to this ordinance, shall be accepted by the Fee Administrator. (2) Establishment of Air Oualitv Improvement Trust Fund The Fee Administrator shall establish a separate interest-bearing trust fund account in a financial institution authorized to receive deposits of City funds. (3) Transfer of Funds: Upon receipt of vehicle registration fees, the Fee Administrator shall deposit such funds into the separate account established pursuant to Subsection (2) above. All interest earned by the Trust Fund Account shall be credited only to that account. (4) Expenditure of Air uality Trust Fund Revenues: All revenues received from the SCAQMD and deposited in the Trust Fund Account shall be exclusively expended on mobile source emission reduction programs as defined in Subsection C (2) above. Such revenues and any interest earned on the revenues shall be expended within one (1) year of the completion of the programs. (5) Audits: The City consents to an audit of all programs and projects funded by vehicle registration fee revenues received from the SCAQMD pursuant to Section 44223 of the Health and Safety Code. The audit shall be conducted by an independent auditor selected by the SCAQMD as provided in Sections 44244 and 44244.1 (a) of the Health and Safety Code. Section 2. Legal Construction. The provisions of this ordinance shall be construed as necessary to effectively carry out its purposes, which are hereby found and declared to be in furtherance of the public health, safety, welfare and convenience. ORDINANCE NO. 918 PAGE THREE Section 3. Severability. Should any sentence, section, clause, part or provision of this ordinance be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole, or any part thereof, other than the part declared to be invalid. Section 4. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after adoption. INTRODUCED AND APPROVED l1PON FIRST READING this 25th day of June, 1991, upon the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BUCK, DOMINGUEZ, STARKEY, WINKLER, fn~ASHBURN NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOPJE PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED UPON SECOND READING this 9th day of July 1991 upon the followinn roll call vote: ' AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BUCK, DOMINGUEZ, STARKEY, WINKLER, WASHBURN NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILP1EMBEP,S: NONE ABSTAIN: COUNCILPIEMBERS: NONE ~~ ~ GARY M. ASHBURN~ MAY CITY O LAKE ELSINORE Vicki L ~n Kasad, Ci City of Lake Elsinore APPROVED AS TO FORM & LEC,ALITY: STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) SS: CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE ) I, Vicki Lynne Kasad, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance had its first reading on June 25, 1991, and had its second reading on July 9, 1991, and was passed by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: BUCK, DOMINGUEZ, STARKEY, WINKLER, WASHBURN NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ~ ~. VICKI LY.PIN~KASAD, CITY CLERK CITY OF LA ELSINORE (SEAL) STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) SS: CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE) I, Vicki Lynne Kasad, City Clerk of the City of Lake Elsinore, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 918 of said Council, and that the same has not been. amended or repealed. DATED: July 10, 1991 ~~:~~ , ~~ VICKI LYNIv~KASAD, CITY CLERK CITY OF LA ELSINORE (SEAL)