California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 13 - Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Enterprises › Article 3 - AB 630 Clean Cars 4 All Program › Section 2637 - Program Elements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) An
				  administrator must submit a Clean Cars 4 All program implementation proposal to
				  the Board prior to receiving initial grant disbursements.
(b) The program must include the following
				  elements:
(1) Targeted outreach in low-income
				  and disadvantaged communities. The program must target outreach and restrict
				  program eligibility to motorists with household incomes of 400% of the federal
				  poverty level or less. This does not prohibit outreach being conducted in
				  conjunction with one or more other programs that are targeted at other
				  populations.
(2) Methods for
				  ensuring that scrapped vehicles have sufficient remaining useful life. The
				  program must include a mechanism to ensure vehicles have sufficient
				  functionality to be currently driven. This could include, but is not limited
				  to, the completion of a smog check test.
(3) Methods to target high-emitting vehicles.
				  The program must include a mechanism for targeting high-emitting vehicles to be
				  scrapped. This could include, but is not limited to, emissions testing, remote
				  sensing, determination of a model year limitation, or other
				  mechanisms.
(4) Methods for
				  providing significant assistance to program participants to complete Clean Cars
				  4 All transactions. This assistance could take the form of incentives from
				  other programs, financial education, access to low-cost loans, or other ways to
				  address the challenges to vehicle ownership faced by low-income
				  participants.
(5) Consumer
				  protections during the purchase and financing of the vehicle to ensure that the
				  benefits of the incentives accrue to the final participant. These could
				  include, but are not limited to the following:
(A) Require or encourage program participants
				  to borrow from reputable lending institutions and/or join credit unions to
				  establish credit prior to purchase.
(B) Prohibit vehicle loans by a selling
				  dealership.
(C) Leverage financial
				  counseling offered by most credit unions by directing participants to those
				  resources.
(D) Require or encourage
				  program participants to receive lending pre-approval before visiting a
				  dealership.
(E) Collaborate with
				  consumer advocacy groups that provide financial counseling.
(F) Direct program participants to
				  California's low-cost auto insurance program.
(G) Require an estimate for total cost of car
				  ownership with the truth-in-lending statement.
(H) Establish pre-approved pricing for used
				  or new vehicles.
(I) Require
				  vehicle inspection and disclosure by an independent auto mechanic.
(J) Require vehicle history be provided and
				  attached to paperwork.
(K) Require
				  vehicle warranty for a specified timeframe.
(L) Prohibit applications completed in full,
				  or in part, by any organization that charges the applicant for this
				  service.
(6) Regular
				  review of contractors and partners to ensure that the requirements of the plan
				  and of these regulations are being met.
(7) Provisions to require contractor and
				  partners to provide information to be used in the quarterly reporting to CARB
				  as required by Section
				  2632.
(8) Scrapped vehicles shall be dismantled at
				  a dismantler operating under contract with the Bureau. An administrator shall
				  develop and enter into a separate contract or agreement with the
				  dismantler.