(a) Applications for renewal of licenses may be filed on or before the expiration date upon payment of the fees for filing specified in Section 1811.
(b) Upon failure to file the application as provided in subdivision (a), the license shall expire on the first day of the next month, but the holder may file an application for a new license. Until that same month and day of the next succeeding year the fee shall be twice that specified in Section 1811 for the filing.
(c) No application shall be deemed filed within the meaning of this section unless the document itself has been actually delivered to, and the proper fee for its filing has been paid at, the office of the commissioner during office hours, or unless both the document and the fee have been filed and remitted pursuant to Sections 11002 and 11003 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 400, Sec. 23. (AB 2782) Effective January 1, 2011.)