Sec. 374.102. DRY CLEANING FACILITY OR DROP STATION REGISTRATION; FEE; POSTING. (a) Each owner of an operating dry cleaning facility or dry cleaning drop station shall register with the commission on a form provided by the commission.

(b) An annual registration fee, the total amount of which may be divided into quarterly payments and billed on dates established by the commission, is assessed as follows:

(1) for a dry cleaning facility that:

(A) has gross annual receipts of more than $150,000, a fee of $2,500;

(B) has gross annual receipts of $150,000 or less, a fee of $250;

(C) is designated as nonparticipating under Section 374.104, a fee of $250; or

(D) depends entirely on revenue collected from an associated dry cleaning drop station or drop stations, a fee in accordance with Paragraphs (A) and (B) determined by the combined gross annual receipts of the drop station or drop stations; or

(2) for a dry cleaning drop station that:

(A) has gross annual receipts of more than $150,000, a fee of $750;

(B) has gross annual receipts of $150,000 or less, a fee of $250; or

(C) is designated as nonparticipating under Section 374.104, a fee of $125.

(c) Fees paid under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.

(d) The owner of a dry cleaning facility or drop station shall post the owner's registration number, in a manner prescribed by the commission, in the public area of each of the owner's operating dry cleaning facilities or drop stations.

(e) Registration under this section must be renewed annually.

(f) For each registration application, the commission shall request that the comptroller verify whether the owner submitting the registration application is in good standing with the state and whether the owner's selection on the registration application of the gross annual receipts classification for the dry cleaning facility or drop station agrees with information reported to the comptroller for the same tax or reporting year. Not later than the third business day after the comptroller receives the verification request, based in part on information supplied by the commission, the comptroller shall report to the commission the owner's standing and whether the owner's application information agrees with the comptroller's information.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 540, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1110 (H.B. 2376), Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2005.

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1091 (H.B. 3220), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.