NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 547

SENATE BILL 638

 

 

AN ACT TO ADJUST DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES' INSPECTION CERTIFICATE FEE TO RECOVER COST.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-183.7 as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 20-183.7.  Fees to be charged by safety equipment inspection station. — Every inspection station, except self-inspectors as designated herein, shall charge a fee of three dollars ten cents ($3.10) for inspecting a motor vehicle to determine compliance with this Article and shall give the operator a receipt indicating the articles and equipment approved and disapproved; provided, that inspection stations approved by the commissioner, and operated under rules, regulations and supervision of any governmental agency, when inspecting vehicles required to be inspected by such agencies' rules and regulations and by the provisions of this Part, may, upon approval by such inspection station and the payment of a fee of thirty-five cents (35˘), attach to the vehicle inspected a North Carolina inspection certificate as required by this Part. When the receipt is presented to the inspection station which issued it, at any time within 90 days, that inspection station shall reinspect the motor vehicle free of additional charge until approved. When said vehicle is approved, and upon payment to the inspection station of the fee, the inspection station shall affix a valid inspection certificate to said motor vehicle, and said inspection station shall maintain a record of the motor vehicles inspected which shall be available for 18 months. The Department of Motor Vehicles shall receive thirty-five cents (35˘) for each inspection certificate and these proceeds shall be placed in a fund designated the 'Motor Vehicle Safety Equipment Inspection Fund', to be used under the direction and supervision of the director of the budget for the administration of this Article."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1976.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1975.