California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 10.5 - The Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Act of 2016

• Section 25215.
  This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Act of 2016.(Repealed (in Sec. 2) and added by Stats. 2016,...
• Section 25215.1.
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Board” means State Board of Equalization.(b) “Business” means any person, as defined in subdivision (j), except a...
• Section 25215.15.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), no person shall dispose, or attempt to dispose, of a lead-acid battery at a solid waste facility or on...
• Section 25215.2.
  (a) A dealer shall accept from persons at the point of transfer a used lead-acid battery of a type listed in paragraph (1), (2), or (4)...
• Section 25215.25.
  (a) (1) On and after April 1, 2017, until March 31, 2022, a California battery fee of one dollar ($1) shall be imposed on a person for...
• Section 25215.35.
  (a) On and after April 1, 2017, a manufacturer battery fee of one dollar ($1) shall be imposed on a manufacturer of lead-acid batteries for each...
• Section 25215.45.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the lead-acid battery fees imposed pursuant to Sections 25215.25 and 25215.35 shall be collected by the board in accordance...
• Section 25215.47.
  (a) The return required to be filed pursuant to Section 55040 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall be prepared and filed by the person required...
• Section 25215.5.
  (a) Lead-acid battery fees collected pursuant to this article shall be managed as follows:(1) The board shall retain moneys necessary for the payment of refunds and reimbursement...
• Section 25215.56.
  (a) Any manufacturer battery fees paid remitted pursuant to this article shall be credited against amounts owed by the manufacturer to the state pursuant to a...
• Section 25215.59.
  If the state loans money from the General Fund to the Toxic Substances Control Account for the cleanup of lead contamination in the state, the...
• Section 25215.65.
  On and after July 1, 2017, a manufacturer shall place a recycling symbol consistent with the requirements of Section 103(b)(1) of the Federal Mercury Containing...
• Section 25215.72.
  One million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) shall be loaned from the California Tire Recycling Management Fund to the board for implementing the collection of...
• Section 25215.74.
  (a) The board may prescribe, adopt, and enforce regulations relating to the administration and enforcement of this article, including, but not limited to, registration, collections, reporting,...
• Section 25215.75.
  This article shall become operative on January 1, 2017.(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 666, Sec. 1. (AB 2153) Effective September 26, 2016. Note: This section...

Last modified: October 22, 2018