California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 2 - Program Requirements

• Section 44010.
  The motor vehicle inspection program shall provide for privately operated stations which shall be referred to as smog check stations and are authorized pursuant to...
• Section 44010.5.
  (a) The department shall implement a program with the capacity to commence, by January 1, 1995, the testing at test-only facilities, in accordance with this chapter,...
• Section 44011.
  (a) All motor vehicles powered by internal combustion engines that are registered within an area designated for program coverage shall be required biennially to obtain a...
• Section 44011.1.
  For purposes of Section 44011, the term “registered within an area designated for program coverage” includes any vehicle registered pursuant to the Vehicle Code in...
• Section 44011.3.
  Every motor vehicle that is subject to testing pursuant to this chapter may be pretested. As used in this section, a pretest is a smog...
• Section 44011.5.
  Documentation that a motor vehicle is exempt from the requirements of Section 44011 may not be based solely on the owner’s statement that the vehicle...
• Section 44011.6.
  (a) The use of a heavy-duty motor vehicle that emits excessive smoke is prohibited.(b) (1) As expeditiously as possible, the state board shall develop a test procedure for...
• Section 44012.
  The test at the smog check stations shall be performed in accordance with procedures prescribed by the department and may require loaded mode dynamometer testing...
• Section 44012.1.
  (a) The department shall incorporate a visible smoke test into the motor vehicle inspection and maintenance program by January 1, 2008. Any visible smoke from the...
• Section 44013.
  (a)  (1)  The department, in cooperation with the state board, shall prescribe maximum emission standards to be applied in inspecting motor vehicles under this chapter....
• Section 44013.a.
  (a) (1) The department, in cooperation with the state board, shall prescribe maximum emission standards to be applied in inspecting motor vehicles under this chapter.(2) In prescribing the...
• Section 44013.b.
  (a) (1) The department, in cooperation with the state board, shall prescribe maximum emission standards to be applied in inspecting motor vehicles under this chapter.(2) In prescribing the...
• Section 44013.5.
  (a) If the department, in consultation with the state board, determines that substantial demand for emission retrofit devices exists, the department shall develop a program for...
• Section 44014.
  (a)  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the testing and repair portion of the program shall be conducted by smog check stations licensed by...
• Section 44014.2.
  (a) The department shall develop a program for the voluntary certification of licensed smog check stations, or the department may accept a smog check station certification...
• Section 44014.4.
  (a)  A licensed smog check station that has been certified pursuant to Section 44014.2 may advertise that fact, and the advertisement may include the scope...
• Section 44014.5.
  (a) The enhanced program shall provide for the testing and retesting of vehicles in accordance with Sections 44010.5 and 44014.2 and this section.(b) The repair of vehicles...
• Section 44014.6.
  (a) The inspection-based performance standards created for the certification program established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 44014.2 and subdivision (d) of Section 44014.5 shall be...
• Section 44014.7.
  (a)  The department shall require 2 percent of the vehicles required to obtain a certificate of compliance each year in enhanced program areas to receive...
• Section 44015.
  (a) A licensed smog check station shall not issue a certificate of compliance, except as authorized by this chapter, to any vehicle that meets the following...
• Section 44015.5.
  (a)  A certificate of compliance shall not be issued to any new motor vehicle or motor vehicle with a new motor vehicle engine which is...
• Section 44016.
  The department shall, with the cooperation of the state board and after consultation with the motor vehicle manufacturers and representatives of the service industry, research,...
• Section 44017.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section or Section 44017.1, a motor vehicle owner shall qualify for a repair cost waiver only after expending at...
• Section 44017.1.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, “low-income motor vehicle owner” means a person whose income does not exceed 185 percent of the federal poverty level....
• Section 44017.3.
  (a)  The department shall provide a licensed smog check station with a sign informing customers about options when their vehicle fails a biennial smog check...
• Section 44017.4.
  (a)  Upon registration with the Department of Motor Vehicles, a passenger vehicle or pickup truck that is a specially constructed vehicle, as defined in Section...
• Section 44017.5.
  At the earliest possible date, as determined by the bureau, the bureau shall implement at the referee stations, where appropriate, an alternative workday schedule which...
• Section 44018.
  (a)  The motor vehicle inspection program may include advisory safety equipment maintenance checks, fuel efficiency checks, or both, on the motor vehicle if the department...
• Section 44019.
  (a)  Every public agency, including, but not limited to, a publicly owned public utility, owning or operating any motor vehicle that is exempt from annual...
• Section 44020.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may license any registered owner of a fleet of 10 or more motor vehicles subject to...
• Section 44024.
  (a)  The department, in cooperation with the state board, shall investigate new technologies, including the role of onboard diagnostic systems in vehicles, as a means...
• Section 44024.5.
  (a)  The department shall compile and maintain statistical and emissions profiles and data from motor vehicles that are subject to the motor vehicle inspection program....
• Section 44025.
  The department shall act as a clearinghouse to provide access to the vendors who possess service information generated by the vehicle manufacturers.(Added by Stats. 1994,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018