Bill Text: VA HB213 | 2024 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Emissions inspections; fees, agreement for services and service charge fees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-08 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0634) [HB213 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HB213-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§46.2-1177.1 and 46.2-1182 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§46.2-1177.1. Inspection program coordinator; agreement for services.
The Director may enter into an agreement to designate a
program coordinator for all inspection programs pursuant to this article,
except that no on-road clean screen program or any program or inspection
process that utilizes remote sensing shall be included in the agreement. The
Director shall determine the services to be provided by the program coordinator
and the amount to be paid to the program coordinator for such services by the
Department. Such agreement shall include a provision that the program
coordinator shall provide and maintain inspection stations as defined in §
46.2-1176 with equipment, as set forth in this article, as required for a
station to provide inspections. In addition to the amount the Director agrees
for the Department to pay the program coordinator, the agreement shall permit
the program coordinator to be paid up to $3,500 $5,000 per year from each
inspection station for each set of required equipment for the provision and
maintenance of such equipment by the program coordinator.
§46.2-1182. Emissions inspection fees; exemption.
Emissions inspection stations performing emissions inspections under subsection A of §46.2-1178 may charge $11.40 for each emissions inspection, but such charge shall not be mandatory. Any such fee shall be paid to the emissions inspection station.
Each emissions inspection station performing emissions inspections under subsection B of §46.2-1178 may charge for each emissions inspection an amount not to exceed $17. Any such fee shall be paid to and retained by the emissions inspection station.
Beginning at such date upon which the program becomes an enhanced emissions program, each emissions inspection station performing emissions inspections under subsection C of §46.2-1178 may charge an amount not to exceed $28 for each emissions inspection, unless the fee is paid by credit card, in which case the emissions inspection station may also charge a credit card interchange fee that does not exceed five percent of the emissions inspection fee. Any such fee shall be paid to and retained by the emissions inspection station.
Within 14 days of an initial failure of an emissions inspection performed at an emissions inspection station, the vehicle's owner shall be entitled to one free reinspection at the station or facility that conducted the original inspection.
The on-road emissions inspector performing emissions inspections under subsection C of §46.2-1178 may charge each motor vehicle owner who elects to participate in the on-road clean screen program an amount not to exceed $28 for each emissions inspection, unless the fee is paid by credit card, in which case the on-road emissions inspector may also charge a credit card interchange fee that does not exceed five percent of the emissions inspection fee. Any such fee shall be paid to the on-road emissions inspector. From each emissions inspection fee received by the on-road emissions inspector, a minimum of $4.50 shall be appropriated to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund established pursuant to §33.2-1530.
