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CHAPTER 8
STRONG-MOTION INSTRUMENTATION PROGRAM
2700. Establishment of program
There is hereby
established in the State of California a
strong-motion instrumentation program
for the purpose of administering the
program and of acquiring strong-motion
instruments and installing and
maintaining such instruments as needed
in representative geologic environments
and structures throughout the state.
2701. Organization and monitoring of
program
The division shall
organize and monitor the program with
the advice of the Seismic Safety
Commission.
2702. Purchase and installation of
instruments
The division shall
purchase, install, and maintain
instruments in representative structures
and geologic environments throughout the
state, and shall process the data
obtained from such instruments resulting
from periodic earthquakes, as deemed
necessary and desirable by the Seismic
Safety Commission.
2703. Maintenance of instruments;
dissemination of data
The division shall
maintain and service the strong-motion
instruments installed, shall collect and
interpret all records from the
instruments, and shall make the records,
record interpretations, and technical
assistance available to the construction
industry.
2704. Legislative intent
It is the intent of
the Legislature in enacting this chapter
to provide adequate instrumentation
throughout California.
2705. Building permit fees; Retention of
percentage by city or county
(a) All counties and
cities shall collect a fee from each
applicant for a building permit. Each
such fee shall be equal to a specific
amount of the proposed building
construction for which the building
permit is issued as determined by the
local building officials. The fee amount
shall be assessed in the following way:
(1) Group R
occupancies, as defined in the 1985
Uniform Building Code and adopted in
Part 2 (commencing with Section 2-101)
of Title 24 of the California Code of
Regulations, one to three stories in
height, except hotels and motels, shall
be assessed at the rate of ten dollars
($10) per one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000), with appropriate fractions
thereof. Of the amount assessed, three
dollars ($3) per one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000), with appropriate
fractions thereof, shall be deposited in
the Seismic Hazards Identification Fund.
(2) All other
buildings shall be assessed at the rate
of twenty-one dollars ($21) per one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000),
with appropriate fractions thereof. Of
the amount assessed, six dollars ($6)
per one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000), with appropriate fractions
thereof, shall be deposited in the
Seismic Hazards Identification Fund.
(3) The fee shall be
the amount assessed under paragraph (1)
or (2), depending on building type, or
fifty cents ($0.50), whichever is the
higher.
(b) (1) In lieu of
the requirements of subdivision (a), a
county or city may elect to include a
rate of ten dollars ($10) per one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000),
with appropriate fractions thereof, in
its basic building permit fee for any
Group R occupancy defined in paragraph
(1) of subdivision (a), and a rate of
twenty-one dollars ($21) per one hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000), with
appropriate fractions thereof, for all
other building types. If collection of
the fee is made pursuant to this
subdivision, the amount of the fees
required to be deposited in the
Strong-Motion Instrumentation Special
Fund pursuant to Section 2706 shall be
equal to the sum of 0.007 percent of the
total valuation of any Group R occupancy
defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision
(a), plus 0.015 percent of the total
valuation of all other building types,
for which building permits were issued
during the accounting period. The
remaining amount of fees shall be
deposited in the Seismic Hazards
Identification Fund pursuant to Section
2699.5. A county or city electing to
collect the fee pursuant to this
subdivision need not segregate the fees
in a fund separate from any fund into
which basic building permit fees are
deposited.
(2) "Building," for
the purpose of this chapter, is any
structure built for the support,
shelter, or enclosure of persons,
animals, chattels, or property of any
kind.
(c)
(1) A city or county
may retain up to 5 percent of the total
amount it collects under subdivision (a)
or (b) for data utilization, for seismic
education incorporating data
interpretations from data of the
strong-motion instrumentation program
and the seismic hazards mapping program,
and, in accordance with paragraph (2),
for improving the preparation for damage
assessment after strong seismic motion
events.
(2) A city or county
may use any funds retained pursuant to
this subdivision to improve the
preparation for damage assessment in its
jurisdiction only after it provides the
Department of Conservation with
information indicating to the department
that data utilization and seismic
education activities have been
adequately funded.
2705.5. Deposit of fees in seismic
hazards identification fund; information
for building permit applicants
The Division of Mines
and Geology shall advise all counties
and cities as to that portion of the
total fees charged pursuant to
Section 2705 which
is to be deposited in the Seismic
Hazards Identification Fund, so that
this information may be provided to
building permit applicants.
2706. Fund; creation; appropriation
(a) All fees
collected pursuant to
Section 2705, except for those fees
required to be deposited in the Seismic
Hazards Identification Fund pursuant to
Section 2705, shall
be deposited in the State Treasury in
the Strong-Motion Instrumentation
Special Fund, which fund is hereby
created, to be used exclusively for the
purposes of this chapter. All moneys in
that fund are continuously appropriated
to the division for the purposes of this
chapter.
(b) This section
shall become operative April 1, 1991.
2707. Reduction of fee
The division, upon
advice of the Seismic Safety Commission,
whenever it determines that an adequate
instrumentation program has been
achieved, may reduce the fee levied
against building permits as provided in
Section 2705 to a
level sufficient to maintain the program
established pursuant to this chapter.
2708. Exemptions from fees [Repealed]
[The repealed section
exempted cities and counties from
Section 2705 if at
least one structure in the community had
been instrumented with three
accelerographs prior to January 20,
1972, and the city had requested that it
be exempted.]
2709. Recession of exemption; request
Any city or county
that has been exempted from the
provisions of Section
2705 by Section 2708
may participate in the state
strong-motion instrumentation program by
a written request to the State Geologist
by the governing body of such city or
county that its exemption be rescinded.
2709.1. Installation contingent on
funds received; Structural types subject
to section
(a) After January 1,
1988, no strong-motion instrumentation
shall be installed pursuant to this
chapter in the structural types
identified in subdivision (b) unless
funds proportionate to the construction
value as called for under
Section 2705 are
received from organizations or entities
representing these structural types, or
the instrumentation is specifically
called for by the Seismic Safety
Commission in urgency situations.
(b) The structural
types subject to this section include
all of the following:
(1) Hospitals.
(2) Dams.
(3) Bridges.
(4) Schools.
(5) Powerplants.
(c) The Strong-Motion
Instrumentation Special Fund may accept
funds from sources other than the permit
fees identified in this chapter. The
priority of installations performed
under this chapter shall be determined
by the Seismic Safety Commission.
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