3734.901 Tire fee administrative fund.

(A)(1) For the purpose of providing revenue to defray the cost of administering and enforcing the scrap tire provisions of this chapter, rules adopted under those provisions, and terms and conditions of orders, variances, and licenses issued under those provisions; to abate accumulations of scrap tires; to make grants to promote research regarding alternative methods of recycling scrap tires and loans to promote the recycling or recovery of energy from scrap tires; and to defray the costs of administering and enforcing sections 3734.90 to 3734.9014 of the Revised Code, a fee of fifty cents per tire is hereby levied on the sale of tires. The fee is levied from the first day of the calendar month that begins next after thirty days from October 29, 1993, through June 30, 2011.

(2) Beginning on September 5, 2001, and ending on June 30, 2011, there is hereby levied an additional fee of fifty cents per tire on the sale of tires the proceeds of which shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the scrap tire management fund created in section 3734.82 of the Revised Code and be used exclusively for the purposes specified in division (G)(3) of that section.

(B) Only one sale of the same article shall be used in computing the amount of the fee due.

Effective Date: 09-05-2001; 06-30-2005