California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 12 - Halogenated Refrigerants › Section 2500 - Phase-Out of CFC Refrigerants in New Motor Vehicle Air Conditioning Systems for Model Years 1993 and Subsequent

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				Applicability
This section is applicable to all new 1993 and subsequent
				  model year motor vehicles which are sold, supplied, or offered for sale in
				  California on or after January 1, 1993, and which are either (1) certified
				  pursuant to article 2 (commencing with section
				  1950) or article 7 (commencing
				  with section
				  2047) of Chapter 1, Division 3,
				  Title 13, California Code of Regulations; or (2) federally certified vehicles
				  which are sold in California pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
				  43102;
				  or (3) heavy-duty diesel-powered motor vehicles, with the exception of such
				  vehicles which are classified as "off-road vehicles" as defined in section
				  2421(a)(19) of
				  Chapter 11, Division 3, Title 13, California Code of
				  Regulations.
(b) Definitions
The definitions of this section supplement and are governed
				  by the definitions set forth in Chapter 2 (commencing with section
				  39010), Part 1, Division 26 of the
				  Health and Safety Code. The following definitions shall also govern the
				  provisions of this section:
(1)
				"Authorized dealership" means any dealership to which a manufacturer supplies
				new motor vehicles for the purpose of reselling such vehicles to the ultimate
				purchaser.
(2) "Authorized
				supplier" means any person supplying, to a manufacturer's authorized
				dealership, air conditioning systems which may be installed in a new motor
				vehicle under warranty from the manufacturer.
(3) "Calendar quarter" means any of those
				three-month periods of time which start on the first days of January, April,
				July, and October.
(4) "CFC
				refrigerants" means any of the compounds commonly known as
				Chlorofluorocarbon-11 (CFC-11 or trichlorofluoromethane) or
				Chlorofluorocarbon-12 (CFC-12 or dichlorodifluoromethane).
(5) "Dealership" shall have the same meaning
				as the term "dealer", as defined in section
				285 of the
				Vehicle Code.
(6) "Executive
				Officer" means the Executive Officer of the Air Resources Board, or his or her
				delegate.
(7) "Factory-installed"
				means installed at a manufacturer's motor vehicle production facility or
				port-of-entry facility.
(8)
				"Incomplete vehicle" means any vehicle which does not have the primary load
				carrying device or container attached by the original manufacturer.
(9) "Manufacturer" means any person engaged
				in the production of new motor vehicles from raw materials or new basic
				components, in order to sell such vehicles for money or other thing of value.
				Except as noted below, for a vehicle which is produced by one manufacturer and
				sold to a dealership or the ultimate purchaser by another manufacturer, the
				manufacturer for whom the requirements of this section are applicable shall be
				the manufacturer who sells, supplies, or offers the vehicle for sale to the
				dealership or the ultimate purchaser.
For incomplete vehicles only, the manufacturer for whom the
				  requirements of this section are applicable shall be the initial manufacturer
				  who predetermines the type of air conditioning system, if the air conditioning
				  system that is ultimately installed is the same as the predetermined system. If
				  the air conditioning system that is ultimately installed is not the same as the
				  predetermined system, the manufacturer for whom the requirements of this
				  section are applicable shall be the manufacturer who ultimately installs the
				  air conditioning system. For the purposes of this section, "predetermine" means
				  to either (1) manufacture or physically configure the vehicle in such a way, or
				  (2) partially install the compressor, condenser, or other air conditioning
				  components in such a way, that the specific configuration or installation is
				  compatible with an air conditioning system that uses only one particular type
				  of refrigerant.
(10) "Motor
				vehicle," as used in this section
				2500, means those categories of
				motor vehicles that are specified in subsection (a).
(11) "Port-of-entry facility" means a
				facility at which a manufacturer's vehicles first arrive in the United States,
				and at which vehicles originally produced without vehicle air-conditioning
				systems may have such systems installed.
(12) "Small-volume manufacturer" means any
				manufacturer which sells less than 3000 new motor vehicles in California during
				the applicable model-year.
(13)
				"Vehicle air-conditioner" means any mechanical vapor compression refrigeration
				equipment used to cool the driver's or passenger compartment of any motor
				vehicle. "Vehicle air-conditioning system" has the same meaning as "vehicle
				air-conditioner."