Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline › 164c - Periodic Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance › Section 14-164c-3a - Miscellaneous inspection procedures

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) New vehicles at
			 the time of initial registration may be issued a new vehicle sticker which
			 shall have an expiration date not to exceed five (5) years from the month of
			 issuance of the first permanent registration for such motor vehicle. Such
			 expiration date shall serve as the time for the periodic emissions inspection
			 for such vehicle on or before the date of expiration of the new vehicle
			 sticker.
(b) Any new or used car
			 dealer or repairer or motor vehicle recycler licensed in this state may be
			 issued a temporary compliance sticker which shall be used only for the purpose
			 of transporting the motor vehicle displaying such sticker to a repair facility
			 or to an official emissions inspection station. Any holder of a transporter's
			 registration issued pursuant to section
			 14-35
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes may be issued a temporary compliance
			 sticker for the purpose of transporting a motor vehicle as provided in said
			 section
			 14-35.
			 A temporary compliance sticker shall have a validity period not to exceed
			 thirty (30) days and both the effective date and the date of expiration shall
			 be noted on such sticker by the dealer, recycler, repairer or transporter to
			 whom such sticker was issued. The temporary compliance sticker shall be affixed
			 to the vehicle as provided in subsection (b) of section 14-164c-7 a. Each
			 dealer, recycler, repairer or transporter shall submit a listing of motor
			 vehicles for which temporary compliance stickers have been issued at times as
			 required by the commissioner. Such listing shall be on a form furnished by the
			 commissioner. A temporary compliance sticker may be used only by the dealer,
			 recycler, repairer or transporter to whom it was issued and may not be sold or
			 otherwise transferred to another dealer, recycler, repairer, transporter or
			 person.
(c) Any new car dealer may
			 be issued a demonstrator sticker, which shall be affixed by the new car dealer
			 as provided in subsection (b) of section 14-164c-7a of the Regulations of
			 Connecticut State Agencies only to a new motor vehicle bearing a new car dealer
			 plate and only for the purpose of demonstrating the vehicle. The effective date
			 shall be entered by the dealer on the demonstrator sticker when the sticker is
			 initially affixed to the vehicle, and the sticker shall be valid for six (6)
			 months from its effective date, or until the vehicle is registered, whichever
			 is the lesser time
(d) Each
			 non-exempt, used motor vehicle sold or transferred to a customer by a licensed
			 new or used car dealer shall be in compliance with the periodic motor vehicle
			 emissions inspection and maintenance requirements at the time of sale or
			 transfer, as evidenced by the vehicle inspection report.
(e) For stickers which are applied to the
			 vehicle windshield in accordance with subsection (b) of section 14-164c-7 a of
			 the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, any glass dealer or repair shop
			 may be issued a temporary replacement windshield sticker which shall be affixed
			 by the dealer or shop to a replacement motor vehicle windshield. The effective
			 date shall be entered by the dealer or shop on the temporary replacement
			 windshield sticker, and the sticker shall be valid for ten (10) days from its
			 effective date. The procedure for obtaining a permanent replacement windshield
			 sticker shall be as follows:
(1) The glass
			 dealer or repair shop shall remove the original sticker from the replaced
			 windshield, attach the original sticker on a form provided by the commissioner,
			 fill out and sign the form and give the completed form and the original sticker
			 to the motor vehicle owner or operator; and
(2) A permanent replacement windshield
			 sticker of the same type and for the same time fixed by the original sticker
			 may be issued and affixed to the replacement windshield as provided in
			 subsection (b) of section 14-164c-7 a of the Regulations of Connecticut State
			 Agencies by the Department of Motor Vehicles upon presentation by the vehicle
			 owner or operator of the completed form with the original sticker attached, the
			 vehicle registration certificate, the most current vehicle inspection report
			 [for the vehicle] and the subject vehicle.