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SENATE BILL NO. 96 Offered January 17, 1994 A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1158 of the Code of Virginia, relating to motor vehicle safety inspections; safety inspection rejection stickers. ---------- Patron--Waddell ---------- Referred to the Committee on Transportation ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.2-1158 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 46.2-1158. Frequency of inspection; scope of inspection.

Motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers required to be inspected pursuant to the provisions of § 46.2-1157 shall be reinspected within twelve months of the month of the first inspection and at least once every twelve months thereafter.

Each inspection shall be a complete inspection. A reinspection of a rejected vehicle by the same station during the period of validity of the rejection sticker on such vehicle, however, need only include an inspection of the item or items previously found defective unless there is found an obvious defect that would warrant further rejection of the vehicle. A complete inspection shall be performed on any vehicle bearing an expired rejection sticker.

A rejection sticker shall be valid for fifteen calendar days beyond the day of issuance. A complete inspection shall be performed on any vehicle bearing an expired rejection sticker. However, display of an unexpired rejection sticker does not serve to provide a grace period for continued operation of the vehicle; vehicles displaying unexpired rejection stickers may be operated on the public highways only over the most direct route between the place where such vehicle is kept or garaged and (i) a repair shop or other location for the purpose of effecting repairs or (ii) an official inspection station.