(a) Funding for the freeway service patrols established pursuant to this chapter shall be provided, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. In addition, the appropriate regional or local entity shall ensure that local resources are expended on freeway service patrols in an amount not less than 25 percent of the amount provided from the State Highway Account.
(b) In locations where a freeway service patrol exists, the department shall coordinate and integrate the funds appropriated pursuant to this section into the existing program. In the allocation of these funds, no local entity may be penalized for having an existing freeway service patrol program.
(c) No state funding may be released prior to the execution of the agreement developed under Section 2561.3.
(d) No program funded under this chapter may supplant emergency response towing services provided by the department as of January 1, 1992.
(e) It is the intent of the Legislature that funding provided under subdivision (a) of Section 2560.5 be consistent from year to year in order to facilitate the awarding of multiyear contracts between participating regional and local entities and providers of freeway patrol services. The department shall only recognize multiyear contract commitments equal to or less than three years. If new freeway service patrol regional or local entity programs are added to the baseline funding allocation, as described in Section 2560.5, those programs shall be phased in so as not to impact the multiyear contract commitments. However, once a new application from an eligible regional or local entity is submitted and approved, the share of the baseline funding allocation to the regional or local agency shall be phased in within three years of the date the application is approved.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 638, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2005.)
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