California Code of Regulations › Title 10 - Investment › Chapter 7.65 - Tourism Marketing Act › Subchapter 1 - Definitions › Section 5350 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "Accommodation
				Location" is any passenger car rental location on the property of a hotel,
				motel or other accommodation facility.
(b) "Act" means the California Tourism
				Marketing Act, Government Code Section
				13995
et seq.
(c)
				"Airport Location" is any passenger car rental location on an airport property
				or servicing an airport and subject to either an airport concession agreement
				or an airport access fee agreement.
(d) "Assessed Business" means a Business
				which derives any California Gross Receipts from a California Business Location
				from one or more Industry Segments and participates in the Tourism Assessment
				Program by paying an annual Assessment pursuant to the Act.
(e) "Assessment" means the amount of Business
				Location annual fees owed by the Assessed Business to the Office pursuant to
				the Act.
(f) "Assessment Rate" for
				the Passenger Rental Car Industry Segment shall be set forth in Section
				5357.1 below. For all other
				segments, the "Assessment Rate" shall be as determined by referendum under the
				Act.
(g) "Authorized
				Representative" means a person authorized by the Business to sign and provide
				the information required in the Registration Form and the Ballot. Examples of
				authorized representatives include sole proprietor, corporate officers, general
				partners and fiduciaries.
(h)
				"Ballot" means the written document sent to Assessed Businesses consisting of
				the information listed in Section
				5355.
(i) "Business" means an individual (sole
				proprietorship), partnership, fiduciary, corporation, association, or any other
				business organization, whether operating on a profit or nonprofit
				basis.
(j) "Business Location"
				means the California street address where Travel and Tourism Revenues are
				generated by a Business. If the Business has more than one business license for
				a single address, then each activity requiring a business license is a separate
				Business Location.
(k) California
				Travel and Tourism Commission ("CTTC") is the commission that promotes
				California as a tourism destination, both domestically and internationally. It
				is headquartered at 980 9th Street, Suite 480, Sacramento, CA 95814.
(l) "California Gross Receipts" means gross
				receipts minus returns and allowances from sales in California. Examples of
				California Gross Receipts are the amount shown on line 1c of Schedule F, Form
				100 of the California Franchise Tax Board, 1996 revision date, line 3 on
				Schedule C, Form 1040 of the Internal Revenue Service, 1996 revision date, or
				for multi-state operations, column (b) on line 3, "total sales" of schedule R-1
				of the California Franchise Tax Board, 1996 revision date.
(m) "Commissioner" means a member of the
				board of commissioners of the California Travel and Tourism Commission,
				established pursuant to Government Code Section
				13995.40.
(n) "Estimated Amount" means for a given
				fiscal year the sum of the amount estimated by the Office to be (i) payable as
				Assessments by all Assessed Businesses other than the Passenger Car Rental
				Industry Segment and (ii) contributed by the State of California general
				funding.
(o) "Expenditures" shall
				mean the total amount of dollars budgeted in a given fiscal year to be spent by
				CTTC, including without limitation utilities, rent, insurance, services,
				products, goods, advertising, salaries, building equipment, fixed, tangible and
				intangible assets.
(p) "Exempt
				Business" means a Business meeting one or both of the following requirements:
(1) The Business is an Exempt Travel
				Agent/Tour Operator; and/or
(2) The
				Business is a Public Body.