(a) For the purposes of this section, “district” means a community services district, public utility district, or sanitary district that provides solid waste handling services or implements source reduction and recycling programs.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, each district shall do all of the following:
(1) Comply with the source reduction and recycling element and the household hazardous waste element of the city, county, or regional agency in which the district is located, as required by the city, county, or regional agency. The city, county, or regional agency shall notify a district of any program that it is implementing or modifying when it annually submits a report to the board pursuant to Section 41821.
(2) Provide each city, county, or regional agency in which it is located, information on the programs implemented by the district, the amount of waste disposed and reported to the disposal tracking system pursuant to Section 41821.5 for each city, county, or regional agency, and the amount of waste diverted by the district for each city, county, or regional agency.
(c) The board may adopt regulations pertaining to the format of the information to be provided pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) and deadlines for supplying this information to the city, county, or regional agency, so that it may be incorporated into the annual report submitted to the board pursuant to Section 41821.
(d) A district is subject to the portion of a penalty imposed, pursuant to Section 41850, upon a city, county, or regional agency in which the district is located, that is in proportion to the district’s responsibility for failure to implement that jurisdiction’s source reduction and recycling element and household hazardous waste element, as determined by that city, county, or regional agency. The board shall not determine the proportion of a district’s responsibility as part of its determination to impose penalties. The city, county, or regional agency shall provide the district with a written notice regarding the district’s responsibility, including the basis for determining the district’s proportional responsibility, and an opportunity for hearing before the city, county, or regional agency’s governing body, before assessing the district a proportion of the penalty imposed by the board.
(e) A district may impose a fee in an amount sufficient to pay for the costs of complying with this section. The fees shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the fees imposed pursuant to Sections 41901 and 41902.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 625, Sec. 8. Effective September 17, 2002.)