Texas Administrative Code › Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Chapter 114 - CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOTOR VEHICLES › Subchapter C - VEHICLE INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE; LOW INCOME VEHICLE REPAIR ASSISTANCE, RETROFIT, AND ACCELERATED VEHICLE RETIREMENT PROGRAM; AND EARLY ACTION COMPACT COUNTIES › Division 3 - EARLY ACTION COMPACT COUNTIES › Section 114.87 - Inspection and Maintenance Fees

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) The
					 following fees must be paid for an emissions inspection of a vehicle at an
					 inspection station in an affected early action compact program county. This fee
					 must include one free retest if the vehicle fails the emissions inspection,
					 provided that the motorist has the retest performed at the same station where
					 the vehicle originally failed; the motorist submits, prior to the retest, a
					 properly completed vehicle repair form showing that emissions-related repairs
					 were performed; and the retest is conducted within 15 days of the initial
					 emissions test. In Travis and Williamson Counties beginning September 1, 2005
					 and ending on the day before the single sticker transition date as defined in
					 §
											114.1 of
					 this title (relating to Definitions), any emissions inspection station required
					 to conduct an emissions test in accordance with §
											114.80
					 of this title (relating to Applicability) must collect a fee not to exceed $16
					 and remit $4.50 to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for each
					 on-board diagnostic and two-speed idle test. In Travis and Williamson Counties
					 beginning on the single sticker transition date, any emissions inspection
					 station required to conduct an emissions test in accordance with §
											114.80
					 of this title must collect a fee not to exceed $11.50 for each on-board
					 diagnostic and two-speed idle test.
(b) The per-vehicle fee and the amount the
					 inspection station remits to the DPS for a challenge test at an inspection
					 station designated by the DPS must be the same as the amounts specified in
					 subsection (a) of this section. The challenge fee must not be charged if the
					 vehicle is retested within 15 days of the initial test.
(c) Inspection stations performing
					 out-of-cycle vehicle emissions inspections resulting from written notification
					 that the subject vehicle failed on-road testing (remote sensing) must charge a
					 motorist for an out-of-cycle emissions inspection in the amount specified in
					 subsection (a) of this section. If the vehicle passes the vehicle emissions
					 inspection, the vehicle owner may request reimbursement from the DPS.
(d) Beginning on the single sticker
					 transition date as defined in §
											114.1 of
					 this title in Travis and Williamson Counties, the following requirements apply.
(1) Vehicle owners in counties participating
					 in Low Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and Accelerated Vehicle
					 Retirement Program (LIRAP) shall remit $4.50 for motor vehicles subject to
					 vehicle emissions inspections to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
					 or county tax assessor-collector at the time of annual vehicle registration as
					 part of the vehicle emissions inspection fee. Of the $4.50 remitted, $2.00
					 constitutes the LIRAP fee as defined in §
												114.7
					 of this title (relating to Low Income Vehicle Repair Assistance, Retrofit, and
					 Accelerated Vehicle Retirement Program Definitions).
(2) Vehicle owners in counties participating
					 in the LIRAP and in the process of opting out shall remit $4.50 for motor
					 vehicles subject to emissions inspection to the DMV or county tax
					 assessor-collector at the time of annual vehicle registration as part of the
					 vehicle emissions inspection fee until the LIRAP fee termination effective date
					 as defined in §
												114.7
					 of this title. Of the $4.50 remitted, $2.00 constitutes the LIRAP fee as
					 defined in §
												114.7
					 of this title. Upon the LIRAP fee termination effective date, vehicle owners in
					 participating counties that are in the process of opting out of the LIRAP shall
					 remit $2.50 for motor vehicles subject to vehicle emissions inspections to the
					 DMV or county tax-assessor-collector at the time of annual vehicle registration
					 as part of the vehicleemissions inspection fee.
(3) Vehicle owners in counties not
					 participating in the LIRAP shall remit $2.50 for motor vehicles subject to
					 vehicle emissions inspection to the DMV or county tax-assessor-collector at the
					 time of annual vehicle registration as part of the vehicle emissions inspection
					 fee.