BILL NUMBER: AB 2474	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act relating to fire provention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2474, as introduced, Chesbro. Fire prevention fee: state
responsibility areas.
   Existing law requires the state to have the primary responsibility
for preventing and suppressing fires in areas that the State Board
of Forestry and Fire Protection has determined are state
responsibility areas. Existing law required the board, on or before
September 1, 2011, to adopt emergency regulations to establish a fire
prevention fee in an amount not to exceed $150 to be charged on each
structure on a parcel that is within a state responsibility area.
The board is required to adjust the fee annually using prescribed
methods.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations
regarding the imposition of the fire prevention fee.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares that the fire
prevention fee imposed pursuant to Chapter 8 of the Statutes of 2011
should be implemented in a fair and equitable manner, and should take
into consideration any amounts that an owner of a structure in a
state responsibility area already pays for local fire service and the
severity of the fire zone where the structure is located.