ARTICLE 34 SUBSTITUTE A
Relating To Motor Vehicle Emissions
Inspection Program
SECTION 1. Section 31-47.1-11 of the General Laws in
Chapter 31-47.1 entitled “Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program” is hereby
amended to read as follows:
31-47.1-11. Fees. – (a)
A fee of forty-seven dollars ($47.00) thirty-nine dollars ($39.00) is to be charged for each motor
vehicle inspected. The amount of fees collected shall provide for the cost of
the inspection, the costs of administering the motor vehicle emissions
inspection program and other costs provided by law. The fee must be paid for
each motor vehicle inspected at an emissions inspection station at the time of
the inspection and is payable whether a compliance certificate, waiver
certificate, or no certificate is issued. There shall be no fee charged for one
reinspection of a vehicle that failed an initial inspection when the
reinspection is conducted at the AIRS that conducted the initial inspection.
Of the forty-seven dollar
($47.00) thirty-nine dollar ($39.00) fee, eighteen dollars
($18.00) nineteen dollars ($19.00) shall be retained by the
inspection station owner to cover the costs of performing the inspection. The
remaining twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) twenty dollars ($20.00)
shall be remitted to the program manager. The program manager shall retain no
more than ten dollars ($10.00) four dollars ($4.00) of the fee
and remit no less than nineteen dollars ($19.00) sixteen dollars
($16.00) for deposit in the state general fund. The general assembly shall
annually appropriate such sums as may be required to cover the costs of administering
the program by the division of motor vehicles and the department of
environmental management.
(b) The general
assembly shall on or before June 30th of each calendar year review the costs
and fees associated with the program with the goal of eliminating all fees
being directed to the general fund and to eliminate all costs and fees not
directly related and necessary to pay the costs of administering the motor
vehicle emission inspection program as required under 40 CFR 51.354(a).
SECTION 2. This article shall take effect as of July 1,
2007.