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2002 SESSION

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HB 570 Emission standards; requirements.

Introduced by: Joe T. May | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Records of the Department of Motor Vehicles; on-road testing of motor vehicle emissions by Department of Environmental Quality; subsidies to owners of certain motor vehicles found not in compliance with motor vehicle emissions requirements. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to release vehicle owner data to the Department of Environmental Quality in connection with enforcement actions involving on-road testing of motor vehicles.

The bill also requires the State Air Pollution Control Board to establish separate and distinct emissions standards applicable to on-road testing of motor vehicles, with such criteria being applicable to all motor vehicles manufactured for a model year 25 years prior to January 1 of the present calendar year or any more recent model year and criteria for each model year being appropriate to that model year. Further provision is made for the expedited identification of "gross violators" of motor vehicle emissions inspection standards. Vehicles registered as “antique” vehicles are exempt.

The bill reduces from 90 days to 30 calendar days the time given to owners of vehicles found by on-road testing to be not in compliance with emissions standards to either show that the vehicles have passed a subsequent emissions inspection, qualify for waivers, or have been given waivers.

The bill also makes the Department of Environmental Quality responsible for the establishment and operation of a program to subsidize repairs of vehicles that fail to meet emissions standards, when the owner of the vehicle is financially unable to have the vehicle repaired. The costs of implementing and operating this program are to be borne by the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program Fund.


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