Section 44062.2.

(a)  The state board shall adopt, by regulation, procedures to establish an emissions credit exchange program whereby persons may contribute to the Vehicle Inspection and Repair Fund, and receive equitable emission reduction credits for those contributions.

(b)  Districts may establish procedures to generate marketable emission reduction credits from contributions toward the repair subsidy program specified in Section 44062.1. Emission reduction credits generated pursuant to this subdivision may be used to meet or offset transportation control measure requirements, average vehicle ridership reductions, or other mobile source emission requirements, as determined by the district.

(c)  The credits established pursuant to subdivision (a) or (b) shall not be allowed until the emission reduction goals established by the amendments enacted in 1990 to the Clean Air Act (P.L. 101-549) have been achieved.

(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 27, Sec. 49. Effective March 30, 1994. Superseded on operative date of amendment by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1192.)