Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

(a) Subject to subdivision (b), a producer shall publish on its internet website, for each of its covered products, an environmental product declaration that identifies the components and the percentage of each component used in the covered product. (b) Subdivision (a) does not r…

(a) To comply with the requirements of this chapter, a producer shall establish and implement a stewardship program as part of a group of producers through membership in the producer responsibility organization. (b) No later than 30 days after the effective date of regulations, e…

(a) The department shall approve a producer responsibility organization if it meets the requirements of this chapter, including all of the following: (1) A governing board consisting of producers that represent the diversity of covered products placed in the market by those entit…

(a) No later than 180 days after the effective date of this chapter, producers shall provide to the department, in a form and manner established by the department, all the following: (1) The producer’s contact information, including its name, physical and mailing addresses, email…

(a) The producer responsibility organization shall establish a method for fully funding the producer responsibility organization in a manner that equitably distributes the producer responsibility organization’s costs among participating producers, reflecting California sales volu…

(a) The producer responsibility organization shall conduct a transparent and public consultation process with interested parties that may be impacted by this chapter, including, but not limited to, producers, wholesalers, retailers, service providers, consumers, local governments…

(a) Within 12 months of the effective date of the regulations adopted by the department pursuant to Section 42968.1, the producer responsibility organization shall develop and submit to the department a complete producer responsibility plan, in accordance with the requirements of…

The producer responsibility organization shall implement the approved producer responsibility plan within 12 months of the department’s approval of the producer responsibility plan. (Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. (AB 863) Effective January 1, 2025.)

A producer responsibility plan for covered products shall do all of the following: (a) Be designed to accept and manage all postconsumer covered products. (b) Include the name and contact information of each producer and brand covered under the producer responsibility plan. The c…

A producer of a covered product sold, offered for sale, imported, or distributed in or into the state shall achieve the performance standards published by the department pursuant to Section 42968.34 with respect to each covered product. (Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 675, Sec. 1. (AB…

(a) The department may establish, review, and may adjust performance standards based on information included in the producer responsibility plan and annual reports, other information provided by the producer responsibility organization, department waste characterization studies, …

(a) The producer responsibility organization shall review its producer responsibility plan at least every five years after approval by the department and determine whether revisions to the producer responsibility plan are necessary. (b) If the producer responsibility organization…

(a) No later than January 1, 2029, a person that, as part of the installation of a covered product, removes a covered product from a residence or business shall transport, or contract to transport, all of the removed covered products to an approved collection site. Covered materi…

(a) No later than 90 days before a producer responsibility plan is submitted to the department, the department shall notify the producer responsibility organization of its estimated regulatory costs, including its full personnel costs, related to implementing and enforcing this c…

(a) The producer responsibility organization shall pay the department a quarterly administrative fee. The department shall set the fee at an amount that, when paid is adequate to cover the department’s full costs of administering and enforcing this chapter, including any program …

(a) In recognition that the material makeup and construction of a covered product affects the technical and economic recyclability of a covered product, the funding mechanism required pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 42968.32 shall establish and be composed of a system of d…

(a) The producer responsibility organization shall keep board minutes, books, and records that clearly reflect the activities and transactions of the producer responsibility organization. (b) The producer responsibility organization shall include in its producer responsibility pl…

(a) The producer responsibility organization shall retain an independent public accountant, certified in the United States, to annually audit the accounting books of the producer responsibility organization. The department shall review the independent certified public accountant …

On or before July 1 of each year, the producer responsibility organization shall submit in the form and manner determined by the department an annual report and make the report publicly available on the producer responsibility organization’s internet website. The report shall inc…

(a) No later than 120 days after the date the department receives the annual report submitted by the producer responsibility organization pursuant to Section 42968.62, the department shall notify the producer responsibility organization if the annual report is compliant or noncom…

(a) Within 24 months of the effective date of regulations pursuant to Section 42968.1, and on or before July 1 of each year thereafter, the department shall post on its internet website a list of producers that are in compliance with this chapter. The department shall list, as ap…

(a) An administrative penalty up to the following amounts may be administratively imposed by the department on the producer responsibility organization or a producer who is in violation of any provision of this chapter: (1) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per day. (2) Twenty-five …

(a) If the producer responsibility organization violates this chapter three or more times, the department may determine the producer responsibility organization permanently ineligible to act as the producer responsibility organization on behalf of producers to design, submit, and…

(a) A producer responsibility organization, producer, retailer, importer, distributor, and wholesaler shall do both of the following: (1) Upon request, provide the department access to its facilities and operations to determine compliance with this chapter. (2) Upon request, prov…

After the time for judicial review under Section 11523 of the Government Code has expired, the department may apply to the small claims court or superior court, depending on the jurisdictional amount and any other remedy sought, in the county where the penalties, restitution, or …

(a) An action specified in subdivision (b) that is taken by a producer or producer responsibility organization that relates to any of the following is not a violation of the Cartwright Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16700) of Part 2 of Division 7 of the Business and Prof…