                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMISSIONS INSPECTION PROGRAM (§ 46.2-1177)

The Director shall administer an emissions inspection program. Such program
shall require biennial inspections of motor vehicles at official emissions
inspection stations in accordance with this article and may require additional
inspections of motor vehicles that have been shown by on-road testing to exceed
emissions standards established by the Board.
		The emissions inspections required in § 46.2-1178 shall not apply to any:

1. Vehicle powered by a clean special fuel as defined in &#xA7; 46.2-749.3,
provided provisions of the federal Clean Air Act permit such exemption for
vehicles powered by a clean special fuel;

2. Motorcycle or autocycle, unless such autocycle has been emissions certified
with an on-board diagnostic system by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency;

3. Vehicle which, at the time of its manufacture was not designed to meet
emissions standards set or approved by the federal government;

4. Antique motor vehicle as defined in &#xA7; 46.2-100 and licensed pursuant to
&#xA7; 46.2-730;

5. Vehicle for which no testing standards have been adopted by the Board; or

6. Vehicle manufactured for the current model year or any of the three
immediately preceding model years unless identified by the remote sensing
program as violating the emissions standards established for that program.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 469, § 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.