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Article #620Re: California "Smog Impact Fee" -- Where To Get A Refund Form
From: Peter L
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:00
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D. Gerasimatos wrote: > > In article <37fc97eb.1705117@news.concentric.net>, > <feliciahREMOVE@concentric.REMOVE.net> wrote: > >Around 4-5 years ago, Florida used to penalize motorists as well. They > >called it an impact fee and it also cost $300. It was repealed while I > >was there. It seems that states have a nasty habit of passing > >unconstitutional fees...It was overturned after a regular citizen > >filed a lawsuit as well. > > I certainly don't like paying fees. However, what was deemed > unconstitutional about the fee? It seems to me that the idea behind the > fee is to discourage Californians from buying cars in states with > less stringent pollution requirements and transporting them to California. > Of course, one might say that as long as the car can pass a California > smog check then who cares, right? Is this the gist of the argument? > > Dimitri Read all about it here: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/C028340.PDF
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a89e,121cdfa1999edb0c X-Google-Attributes: gid10a89e,public X-Google-Thread: 10b619,121cdfa1999edb0c X-Google-Attributes: gid10b619,public X-Google-Thread: f824f,121cdfa1999edb0c X-Google-Attributes: gidf824f,public X-Google-Thread: 107d03,121cdfa1999edb0c X-Google-Attributes: gid107d03,public From: Peter L <Nospam.peterl@csus.edu> Subject: Re: California "Smog Impact Fee" -- Where To Get A Refund Form Date: 1999/10/07 Message-ID: <37FCF8F6.6CF2@csus.edu> X-Deja-AN: 534036692 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7tbr2k$50b$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7td2cr$2dl$1@ultra.sonic.net> <7td5ms$qug@bolt.sonic.net> <37fc97eb.1705117@news.concentric.net> <7tirlh$d0k$1@agate-ether.berkeley.edu> Organization: CSUS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sac.general,la.general,ba.general,sdnet.general