NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 455

HOUSE BILL 482

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO EMISSION CONTROL DEVICES ON MOTOR VEHICLES AND THE INSPECTION THEREOF.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-128 is hereby amended by adding the following subsection:

"(c)       No motor vehicle registered in this State which was manufactured after model year 1967 shall be operated in this State unless it is equipped with such emission control devices to reduce air pollution as were installed at the time of manufacture, provided the foregoing requirement shall not apply where such devices have been removed for the purpose of converting the motor vehicle to operate on natural or liquified petroleum gas or other modifications have been made in order to reduce air pollution, further provided that such modifications shall have first been approved by the Department of Water and Air Resources."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-183.3 is hereby amended by striking the words "safety inspection equipment station" in the first paragraph thereof and inserting in their place the words "safety equipment inspection station" and by inserting between the first and second paragraphs thereof the following new paragraph:

"No inspection certificate shall be issued by a safety equipment inspection station for a motor vehicle manufactured after model year 1967 unless the vehicle is equipped with such emission control devices to reduce air pollution as were installed at the time of manufacture which are readily visible, provided the foregoing requirement shall not apply where such devices have been removed for the purpose of converting the motor vehicle to operate on natural or liquified petroleum gas or other modifications have been made in order to reduce air pollution, further provided that such modifications shall have first been approved by the Department of Water and Air Resources."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1972.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1971.