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, established in accordance with the rules and regulations of the department as provided in section 31-47.1-7(b) hereof, of forty-seven dollars ($47.00) 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.

(b) The motor vehicle emission inspection account is hereby established within the general fund as a restricted receipt account and will continue until June 30, 2003 at which time emission inspection fees shall be deposited as general revenues. The motor vehicle emission inspection account shall be used to pay all the costs of administering the motor vehicle emission inspection programs of the department and the department of environmental management according to the requirements of 40 CFR 51.354(a). It is the intent of this section that the motor vehicle emission inspection program be self supporting. Of the forty-seven dollars ($47.00) fee, eighteen dollars ($18.00) shall be retained by the inspection station owner to cover the costs of performing the inspection. The remaining twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) shall bed remitted to the program manager. The program manager shall retain thirteen dollars ($13.00) of the fee and remit the remaining sixteen dollars ($16.00) for deposit in the state general fund. The assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as may be required to cover the costs of administering the program by the registry of motor vehicles and the department of environmental management.

(c) 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 July 1, 1999.