Pub. Resources Code, § 48704

(a) No later than 90 days before a stewardship plan is required to be submitted to the department, the department shall notify each manufacturer acting individually and each stewardship organization of its reasonable regulatory costs, including its full personnel costs, related to implementing and enforcing this chapter. This shall include the actual and reasonable costs associated with regulation development pursuant to Section 48701.1 and other startup activities before the stewardship plan is submitted and approved.

(b) Manufacturers and stewardship organizations shall collectively pay on a quarterly basis the department’s administrative fee for its reasonably incurred regulatory costs, as described in subdivision (a). Manufacturer and stewardship organizations shall pay the fee on or before the last day of the month following the end of each quarter.

(c) The Architectural Paint Stewardship Account, established pursuant to Section 48704.1, as it read on January 1, 2024, in the Integrated Waste Management Fund created pursuant to Section 40135, is hereby renamed the Paint Product Stewardship Account. The Architectural Paint Stewardship Penalty Subaccount, established in that fund pursuant to Section 48704.1, as it read on January 1, 2024, is hereby renamed the Paint Product Stewardship Penalty Subaccount. The renamed account and subaccount shall remain in the fund.

(d) All fees collected by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited into the Paint Product Stewardship Account and may be expended by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to cover the department’s reasonable costs to implement this chapter and to reimburse any outstanding loans made from other funds used to finance regulation development and startup costs of the department’s activities pursuant to this chapter. The moneys in the Paint Product Stewardship Account shall not be expended for any other purpose. The department shall enforce this chapter.

(e) All civil penalties collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited into the Paint Product Stewardship Penalty Subaccount and may be expended by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to cover the department’s reasonable costs to implement this chapter.