California Health and Safety Code

§ 117924

HSC § 117924 Effective Jan 1, 2015Div. 104 · Part 14 · Ch. 4

Statute text

(a)When the department is the enforcement agency, the department shall impose and cause the collection of an annual medical waste generator fee in an amount not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25) on small quantity generators of medical waste, except for those small quantity generators that are required to register pursuant to Section 117925 and those generators generating only pharmaceutical waste as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 117690. Nothing in this part shall prevent the department from contracting with entities other than the department for these fee collection activities or from entering into agreements with medical waste transporters for the collection of these fees, if the department determines that such a fee collection arrangement would be cost effective.

(b)If the department determines to enter into a contract with a medical waste transporter for the collection of the fees, the department shall do all of the following:

(1)Establish that not more than 7.5 percent of the fees collected may be recovered by the medical waste transporter as administrative costs for the collection of those fees.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 564, Sec. 37. (AB 333) Effective January 1, 2015.