11151-11156

REVENUE AND TAXATION CODE
SECTION 11151-11156




11151.  (a) For purposes of this part, "department" means the
Department of Motor Vehicles.
   (b) For purposes of this part, "county" means the City and County
of San Francisco.



11152.  The county may impose a local vehicle license fee surcharge
if both of the following occur:
   (a) The board of supervisors finds both of the following:
   (1) That there is traffic congestion within the county that can be
alleviated by the operation of public transit and that the cost of
funding public transit exceeds the revenues to be collected from a
vehicle license fee surcharge.
   (2) That the imposition of the vehicle license fee surcharge will
reduce the need for any public transit fare increases during the
period that the vehicle license fee surcharge is in effect.
   (b) The ordinance or resolution proposing the surcharge is adopted
by two-thirds of the voters of the county voting on the issue.




11152.5.  If public transit fares are increased at any time while
the vehicle license fee surcharge authorized by this part is in
effect, the surcharge may not continue to be imposed.
   This part shall become inoperative on the date those fares are
increased and shall be repealed on January 1 next following that
date. The board of supervisors shall notify the department of any
increase in public transit fares occurring while the surcharge is in
effect.


11153.  A vehicle license fee surcharge ordinance or resolution
adopted pursuant to this part shall be operative on January 1 of the
year following adoption of the ordinance or resolution. A local
vehicle license fee surcharge shall apply to any original
registration occurring on or after that January 1, and to any renewal
of registration with an expiration date on or after that January 1.



11154.  The local vehicle license fee surcharge shall be imposed for
the privilege of operating upon the public highways in the county
any vehicle of a type that is subject to registration under the
Vehicle Code, except those vehicles expressly exempted from payment
of vehicle registration fees and commercial vehicles weighing more
than 4,000 pounds, unladen, and shall include provisions in substance
as follows:
   (a) A provision that the annual amount of the local vehicle
license fee surcharge shall be a sum equal to not more than 15
percent of the vehicle license fee imposed pursuant to Part 5
(commencing with Section 10701).
   (b) A provision that the county contract prior to the effective
date of the local vehicle license fee surcharge ordinance or
resolution with the department to perform all functions incident to
the administration or operation of the local vehicle license fee
surcharge ordinance or resolution of the county.
   (c) A provision that the revenue derived from any vehicle license
fee surcharge ordinance or resolution imposed pursuant to this part
shall be distributed to the county for use exclusively for the
provision of public transit, including capital outlay, security, and
maintenance costs, and including, but not limited to, removal of
graffiti from public transit vehicles and facilities, and to pay the
costs of compliance with subdivision (b) of Section 11152.



11155.  All local vehicle license fee surcharge revenues, less
refunds, collected by the department pursuant to a contract with a
county, after deduction of the administrative costs incurred by the
department in carrying out this part, shall be paid to that county.




11156.  A person shall, for the purposes provided for in Section
11154, be presumed to be operating a vehicle on the public highways
only in the county in which he or she resides, or, in the case of
other than a natural person, only in the county in which the vehicle
is principally garaged, and he or she shall be subject to a local
vehicle license fee surcharge only in that county.