California Code of Regulations › Title 13 - Motor Vehicles › Division 3 - Air Resources Board › Chapter 13 - Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Enterprises › Article 1 - Voluntary Accelerated Light-Duty Vehicle Retirement Enterprises › Section 2601 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "CO" means
				  carbon monoxide, as emitted in vehicle exhaust.
(b) "Collector-interest vehicle" means any
				  vehicle purchased by a collector or enthusiast primarily for its historic or
				  esthetic value, rather than primarily as a means of transportation.
(c) "Day" means any week or weekend day
				  including all holidays.
(d)
				  "Dismantle" means to punch, crush, stamp, hammer, shred, or otherwise render
				  permanently and irreversibly incapable of functioning as originally intended,
				  any vehicle or vehicle part.
(e)
				  "Dismantler" means the person or business, defined and licensed according to
				  the requirements of California Vehicle Code §
										220, §
										221, §
										11500, et seq., and other business
				  codes and the regulations of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), who
				  dismantles or otherwise removes from service those vehicles obtained as part of
				  a Voluntary Accelerated Vehicle Retirement (VAVR) enterprise.
(f) "District" means a local air quality
				  management district or air pollution control district, as defined by California
				  Health and Safety Code, Part 3, Section
				  40000 et seq., that has
				  responsibility for administering VAVR enterprises within its
				  jurisdiction.
(g) "Drive train
				  parts" means all parts associated with the drive train such as engine, drive
				  mechanism, transmission, differential, axles, and brakes.
(h) "Emission reduction credit" means the
				  amount of emission reductions from the accelerated retirement of vehicles, that
				  can be applied to the emission reduction obligations of another source or to
				  air quality attainment goals.
(i)
				  "Emissions-related part" means any vehicle part which affects any regulated
				  emissions from a vehicle that is subject to California or federal emissions
				  standards and includes, but is not limited to, those parts specified in the
				  "Emissions-Related Parts List," adopted by the State Board on November 4, 1977,
				  as last amended June 1, 1990.
(j)
				  "Enterprise operator" means a person, who conducts a voluntary accelerated
				  vehicle retirement enterprise according to these regulations, purchases
				  vehicles, arranges for a vehicle's permanent removal from operation, and
				  receives any emission reduction credit generated.
(k) "Executive Officer" means the Executive
				  Officer of the Air Resources Board (ARB).
(l) "High Emitting Vehicle" means a vehicle
				  that is identified as one that is emitting pollution in excess of emission
				  standards pursuant to Title 16, Division 33, Article 5.5, Section
				  3340.42 of the California Code of
				  Regulations.
(m) "NOx" means oxides
				  of nitrogen, NO and NO2, measured as NO2, emitted in vehicle exhaust.
(n) "PM" means particulate matter, as emitted
				  in vehicle exhaust.
(o) "Remote
				  sensing device (RSD)" means a device or devices that measure one or any
				  combination of CO, NOx, and ROG concentrations in the exhaust of an on-road
				  vehicle through infrared, ultraviolet, or other ARB-approved
				  technology.
(p) "ROG" means
				  reactive organic gases, as emitted in both vehicle exhaust and evaporative
				  emissions.
(q) "Smog Check" means
				  the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program established by California
				  Health and Safety Code Section
				  44000,
				  et seq.
(r) "Useful life" means the
				  physical condition of a vehicle proposed for retirement such that the vehicle
				  passes the functional and equipment eligibility inspections, as defined in
				  Section 2603 of this regulation, and has
				  passed the last scheduled Smog Check.
(s) "VAVR enterprise" means a privately owned
				  and/or operated business by an enterprise operator.
(t) "Voluntary accelerated vehicle
				  retirement" or "VAVR" means a program in which cash payments or other
				  incentives are offered to a vehicle owner to voluntarily retire their older,
				  more polluting vehicle that is operational and still has a useful
				  life.
1. New
					 section filed 12-8-99; operative 1-7-2000 (Register 99, No. 50).
2.
					 New subsections (r) and (s) filed 1-3-2003; operative 1-3-2003 pursuant to
					 Government Code section
					 11343.4
					 (Register 2003, No. 1).
3. Repealer of subsections (a)-(s) and new
					 subsections (a)-(t) filed 7-13-2007; operative 8-12-2007 (Register 2007, No.
					 28).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						39600,
						39601
						and
						44101,
						Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
						39002,
						39003,
						43000,
						43013,
						44081,
						44090,
						44100,
						44101,
						44102,
						44103,
						44105
						and
						44122,
						Health and Safety Code.