California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Quality Assurance

• Section 44030.
  (a)  The department shall develop standards for the licensing of smog check stations. Tests, service, and adjustment at smog check stations shall be performed by...
• Section 44030.5.
  The department shall develop standards for certification of institutions and instructors for purposes of providing training of smog check mechanics. The standards shall include criteria...
• Section 44031.5.
  (a)  No smog check technician may perform tests or make repairs required by this chapter, for compensation, unless qualified by the department for the class...
• Section 44032.
  No person shall perform, for compensation, tests or repairs of emission control devices or systems of motor vehicles required by this chapter unless the person...
• Section 44033.
  (a)  (1)  Any facility meeting the requirements established by the department pursuant to this chapter may be licensed as a test-only, test and repair, or...
• Section 44034.
  Annual license fees for smog check stations and biennial license fees for smog check technicians shall be imposed by the department, but shall not exceed...
• Section 44034.1.
  The department may impose an examination fee, sufficient to recover the reasonable cost of administering, developing, and updating the examination, for initial and biennial renewal...
• Section 44035.
  (a)  A smog check station’s license or a qualified smog check technician’s qualification may be suspended or revoked by the department, after a hearing, for...
• Section 44036.
  (a) The consumer protection-oriented quality assurance portion of the motor vehicle inspection program shall ensure uniform and consistent tests and repairs by all qualified smog check...
• Section 44036.1.
  The department may require that equipment manufacturers, submitting equipment for certification pursuant to Section 44036, submit proof of financial security, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 44036.2.
  (a)  To ensure uniform and consistent inspection, tests, and repairs by all qualified smog check technicians and licensed smog check stations, and to ensure consumer...
• Section 44036.3.
  (a)  The department shall direct licensed smog check stations and technicians to private diagnostic assistance service information vendors or intermediaries who possess the electronically formatted...
• Section 44036.5.
  (a)  The department shall set standards for test analyzer system (TAS) calibration gases and shall establish criteria to certify and decertify gas blenders who blend,...
• Section 44036.8.
  The data collected by the equipment used by a smog check station, as required by regulations of the bureau, may be used by a licensed...
• Section 44037.
  (a) The department shall compile and maintain records, using the sampling methodology necessary to ensure their scientific validity and reliability, of tests and repairs performed by...
• Section 44037.1.
  (a)  On or before January 1, 1995, the department shall design and establish the equipment necessary to operate a centralized computer data base and computer...
• Section 44037.2.
  (a)  The department may enter into a contract for telecommunication, programming, data analysis, data processing, and other services necessary to operate and maintain the centralized...
• Section 44038.
  Until implementation of the centralized computer data base required pursuant to Section 44037.1, each smog check station shall transmit vehicle data and emission test or...
• Section 44039.
  A written summary of the required information applicable to smog check stations in each district shall be published semiannually by the department and made available...
• Section 44040.
  The department may require certificates of compliance, certificates of noncompliance, and repair cost waivers to contain a unique number encoded in bar code. These certificates...
• Section 44041.
  In order to expedite emissions testing and to eliminate errors in the transcription of vehicle data, the department shall, in cooperation with the Department of...
• Section 44045.5.
  (a)  This section describes the qualifications to be met by smog check technician applicants effective January 1, 1995. The department shall, by regulation, establish requirements...
• Section 44045.6.
  (a)  The department shall, by regulation, establish requirements for the training of smog check technicians which are necessary to enable the program to meet the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018