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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>66550</law_id><section_number>46.2-1177</section_number><catch_line>Emissions inspection program</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-1178.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Motor Vehicle and Equipment Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="22">Emissions Inspections</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Director</span> shall administer an emissions inspection program. Such program shall require biennial inspections of <span class="dictionary">motor vehicles</span> at official <span class="dictionary">emissions inspection stations</span> in accordance with this article and may require additional inspections of <span class="dictionary">motor vehicles</span> that have been shown by <span class="dictionary">on-road testing</span> to exceed emissions standards established by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		The emissions inspections required in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Administration and scope of emissions inspection program" href="/46.2-1178/">46.2-1178</a> shall not apply to any:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> <span class="dictionary">Vehicle</span> powered by a clean special fuel as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Special license plates for clean special fuel vehicles" href="/46.2-749.3/">46.2-749.3</a>, provided provisions of the federal Clean Air Act permit such exemption for vehicles powered by a clean special fuel; <a id="paragraph-241529" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1177/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> <span class="dictionary">Motorcycle</span> or <span class="dictionary">autocycle</span>, unless such <span class="dictionary">autocycle</span> has been emissions certified with an on-<span class="dictionary">board</span> diagnostic system by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; <a id="paragraph-241530" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1177/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> <span class="dictionary">Vehicle</span> which, at the time of its manufacture was not designed to meet emissions standards set or approved by the federal government; <a id="paragraph-241531" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1177/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> <span class="dictionary">Antique motor vehicle</span> as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/46.2-100/">46.2-100</a> and licensed pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="License plates for antique motor vehicles and antique trailers; fee" href="/46.2-730/">46.2-730</a>; <a id="paragraph-241532" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1177/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Vehicle for which no testing standards have been adopted by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>; or <a id="paragraph-241533" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1177/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Vehicle manufactured for the current model year or any of the three immediately preceding model years unless identified by the <span class="dictionary">remote sensing</span> program as violating the emissions standards established for that program. <a id="paragraph-241534" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/46.2-1177/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1980, c. 469, &#xA7; 46.1-326.3; 1981, c. 624; 1988, c. 806; 1989, c. 727; 1993, cc. 995, 998; 1993, Sp. Sess., c. 2; 1995, cc. 836, 851; 2006, c. 729; 2015, cc. 95, 161.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
