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Gov. Code, § 62574 · Article 2. Commercial Linkage Fee

Gov. Code, § 62574

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (c), if the authority board adopts a resolution or other legislative enactment establishing or imposing a new commercial linkage fee or approving an increase in an existing commercial linkage fee, each underlying land use jurisdiction shall, as a condition of approving a commercial development project for which it receives an application for a conditional use permit or other discretionary or ministerial approval, require an applicant to pay the amount of commercial linkage fee established, imposed, or increased by the authority board pursuant to this article. The underlying land use jurisdiction shall provide notice to the applicant that does all of the following:

(1) Notifies the applicant that the authority board has established, increased, or imposed a commercial linkage fee pursuant to this article.

(2) States the amount of commercial linkage fee established, increased, or imposed by the authority board.

(3) States that the applicant may protest the commercial linkage fee, as provided in Section 62575, and notifies the applicant that the 90-day period for that protest and the 180-day period for filing an action specified in subdivision (c) of Section 62575 has begun.

(b) Each underlying land use jurisdiction shall collect and, after deduction of any actual and necessary administrative costs incurred by the underlying land use jurisdiction, remit the amount of commercial linkage fee established, increased, or imposed pursuant to this article to the authority. An underlying land use jurisdiction shall remit the amounts required by this subdivision on or before the last day of the month next succeeding each calendar quarterly period.

(c) If any amount of commercial linkage fee established, increased, or imposed pursuant to this article is found to be invalid pursuant to Section 62575, each underlying land use jurisdiction shall immediately cease collection of the commercial linkage fee.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 767, Sec. 1. (SB 440) Effective January 1, 2025.

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