Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 460 - DIESEL EMISSION INSPECTION PROGRAM › Subpart A - GENERAL › Section 460.110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in this Part:
"Affected Areas" means the counties of Cook, DuPage, Lake,
				  Kane, McHenry, Will, Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe and the townships of Aux
				  Sable and Goose Lake in Grundy County and the township of Oswego in Kendall
				  County. [625 ILCS 5/13-100.1]
"Applicant" means any individual Owner, partners, authorized
				  agent of a corporation, or lessee applying for an Official Testing Station
				  Permit.
"Authorized Diesel Emission Inspection Equipment" means those
				  testing and measuring devices approved and required by the Department's
				  Commercial Vehicle Safety Section for applicable Official Testing Stations'
				  diesel emission inspection procedures.
"Authorized Representative of the Department" means vehicle
				  compliance inspectors and administrative personnel employed by the Illinois
				  Department of Transportation.
"Certified Diesel Emission Tester (CDET)" means an individual
				  who is employed at an Official Testing Station and who has passed a written
				  exam and who has demonstrated proficiency by operating and calibrating the
				  authorized diesel emission inspection equipment and who has been issued a
				  certificate by the Department.
"Certified Safety Tester (CST)" means an individual who is
				  employed at an Official Testing Station and who has passed a written exam and
				  who has demonstrated proficiency in the operation of authorized safety test
				  equipment and who has been issued a certificate by the Department.
"Code" means the Illinois Vehicle Code [625 ILCS 5 ].
"Commercial Vehicle Safety Section (CVSS)" means a section of
				  the Bureau of Safety Programs of the Division of Traffic Safety of the Illinois
				  Department of Transportation.
"Cutpoint Standards" means criteria established in the United
				  States Environmental Protection Agency document "Guidance to States on Smoke
				  Opacity Cutpoints to be used with the SAE J1667 In-Use Smoke Test Procedure."
				  (See Section
				  460.140 for cutpoint
				  standards.)
"Department" means the Department of Transportation of the
				  State of Illinois, acting directly or through its authorized agents or
				  officers. [625 ILCS 5/13-100]
"Diesel Emission Inspection Certificate of Waiver for Failing
				  Inspection and Reinspection" means a certificate issued in accordance with
				  Section
				  460.600 of
				  this Part to the owner/operator of a vehicle that has failed a diesel emission
				  inspection and reinspection but who has complied with all applicable waiver
				  requirements in accordance with Section 460.600.
"Diesel Emission Inspection Certificate of Waiver for an
				  Ungoverned Vehicle" means a certificate issued in accordance with Section
				  460.605
				  of this Part to the owner/operator of a vehicle whose motor was manufactured
				  ungoverned but who has complied with all applicable waiver requirements in
				  accordance with Section 460.605.
"Diesel Emission Inspection Compliance Card" means the
				  document presented to the vehicle owner/operator if his/her vehicle passes a
				  diesel emission inspection. The card is validated by the presence of the
				  Validation Certificate that is attached to the card in the form of an adhesive
				  sticker and is required to be present in the cab of the vehicle.
"Diesel Emission Inspection 30-Day Warning Notice" means the
				  document presented to the vehicle owner/operator if the vehicle fails the
				  diesel emission inspection. The vehicle's owner/operator is required to return
				  to the Station within 30 days for a reinspection.
"Diesel Emission Inspection Equipment" means the equipment
				  required to be used by the Certified Diesel Emission Tester to inspect a
				  diesel-powered vehicle and to submit the results of the inspection to the
				  Department. The equipment includes, but is not limited to, the
				  Department-approved smoke opacimeter, a workstation (i.e., laptop computer),
				  and printer tape.
"Diesel Emission Inspection Official Testing Stations" means
				  those Stations located within the affected areas that participate in the Diesel
				  Emission Inspection Program.
"Diesel Emission Inspection Supplies (Supplies)" means all
				  items issued to an Official Testing Station by the Commercial Vehicle Safety
				  Section in order to conduct a diesel emission inspection. Items include, but
				  are not limited to, Diesel Emission Inspection Compliance Cards, Diesel
				  Emission Inspection 30-Day Warning Notices, and Validation Certificates. All
				  supplies remain the property of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Section.
"Diesel-Powered Vehicle" or "Diesel Vehicle" means a motor
				  vehicle registered for a gross weight of more than 16,000 pounds, powered by an
				  internal combustion, compression ignition, diesel fueled engine.
"Diesel Smoke" means particles, including aerosols, suspended
				  in the exhaust stream of a diesel engine that absorb, reflect, or refract
				  light.
"Director" means the Director of the Division of Traffic
				  Safety for the Illinois Department of Transportation.
"Division" means the Division of Traffic Safety for the
				  Illinois Department of Transportation.
"Effective Optical Path Length (L)" means the length of the
				  smoke-obscured optical path between the smoke opacimeter light source and
				  detector.
"Emergency Vehicle" means vehicles of municipal departments
				  or public service corporations that are designated or authorized as such by
				  proper local authorities, including, but not limited to, police vehicles,
				  vehicles of fire departments and ambulances.
"Emission Control Devices" means those components of a
				  vehicle that were designed and are used to control vehicle exhaust and
				  evaporative system emissions. For purposes of this Part, this term refers to
				  components with which the vehicle was originally equipped or direct
				  replacements.
"Gross Weight"means the weight of a vehicle whether operated
				  singly or in combination without load plus weight of the load thereon.
				  [625 ILCS 5/1-125
				  ]
"Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR)" means the value
				  specified by the manufacturer or manufacturers as the maximum loaded weight of
				  a single vehicle. [625 ILCS 5/1-124.5]
"Illinois Vehicle Inspection Law (the Law)" means 625 ILCS 5
				  /Ch. 13.
"Intrastate Carrier of Passengers" means any person engaged
				  in the transportation of passengers solely within Illinois.
"Intrastate Carrier of Property" means any person engaged in
				  the transportation of property solely within Illinois.
"Interstate Carrier of Passengers" means any person engaged
				  in the transportation of passengers between a place in a state and a place
				  outside of such state or between two places in a state through another state or
				  a place outside the United States.
"Manufacturer" (unless otherwise indicated at the point of
				  use) means the person or organization whose name follows "MANUFACTURED BY" or
				  "MFD BY" on the federal certification label.
"Model Year"means the year of manufacture of a vehicle based
				  upon the annual production period of the vehicle as designated by the
				  manufacturer and indicated on the title and registration of the vehicle. If the
				  manufacturer does not designate a production period for the vehicle, then
				  "model year" means the calendar year of manufacture. [625 ILCS 5/1-144.05
				  ]
"Non-exempt Vehicle" means any vehicle subject to diesel
				  emission inspections as required by this Part.
"Official Testing Station(s) (the Station)" means all
				  contiguous real and personal property that houses the equipment and supplies
				  relating to the diesel emission inspection of vehicles. Official Testing
				  Stations are privately-owned businesses that are regulated by the Department.
				  Official Testing Stations are classified as either public or private. Public
				  Stations are open to the public. Private Stations are established by companies
				  for the purpose of inspecting vehicles owned or operated by the company.
				  Private Stations are not open to the public.
"Official Testing Station Permit (Permit)" means evidence
				  issued by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Section granting the Owner named
				  thereon the privilege of serving as an agent of the State of Illinois within
				  the limitations set forth in Section 13-103 of the Law.
"Opacity (N)" means the percentage of light transmitted from
				  a source that is prevented from reaching a light detector.
"Operated within the Affected Area" means any vehicle that is
				  physically within the affected area at any time, whether stationary or in
				  motion.
"Out-of-Service Order" means a temporary prohibition against
				  driving a commercial motor vehicle. [625 ILCS
				  5/1-154.5]
"Owner" means any individual, partners, authorized agent of a
				  corporation, lessee, or other person in whose name an Official Testing Station
				  Permit has been issued. Such person(s) is responsible for the lawful operation
				  of the Station's diesel emission inspection program.
"Owner/Operator" means the person who presents the
				  diesel-powered vehicle at the Station for inspection, commonly referred to as
				  the vehicle's driver.
"Part" means the regulations contained in this document that
				  are located at 92 Ill. Adm. Code 460.
"Person" means every natural person, firm, copartnership,
				  association or corporation. [625 ILCS
				  5/1-159 ]
"Rate or Charge" means the monetary charge (i.e., $30)
				  authorized by
				  625
				  ILCS 5/13-106 to any person offering a vehicle for a
				  diesel emission inspection pursuant to
				  625
				  ILCS 5/13-109.1.
"Recognized Repair Technician" means a person professionally
				  engaged in vehicle repair, employed by a company in operation whose purpose is
				  vehicle repair, or possessing nationally recognized certification for emission
				  related diagnosis and repair.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Illinois Department of
				  Transportation.
"Smoke Density (K)" means a fundamental means of quantifying
				  the ability of a smoke plume or smoke containing gas sample to obscure
				  light.
"Smoke Opacimeter" means a type of smokemeter designed to
				  measure the opacity of a plume or sample of smoke by means of a light
				  extinction principle.
"Smokemeter Measurement Zone" means the effective length
				  between the smokemeter light source and the light detector through which
				  exhaust gases pass and interact with the smokemeter light beam.
"Snap-Acceleration Inspection" means the method used to test
				  a diesel-powered vehicle to determine the quality of diesel exhaust fumes being
				  released into the atmosphere.
"Station" means the Official Testing Station.
"Transmittance (T)" means the fraction of light transmitted
				  from a source that reaches a light detector.
"Validation Certificate" means the sticker attached by the
				  CDET to the Diesel Emission Inspection Compliance Card after the vehicle passes
				  a diesel emission inspection.