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SB 900 - This act mandates emission testing for certain vehicles before sale or transfer and biennially after that to ensure compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act. This act goes on to lay out the vehicles which are subject to the emission inspection program and those that are exempt from the regulations. Included in the exemptions are vehicles manufactured twenty-six years or more prior to the current model year. Other vehicles admitted in this exemption include but are not limited to, motorcycles, school buses, new and used vehicles manufactured within two years of the current calendar year, and diesel powered vehicles.

This act allows dealers to sell vehicles with prior inspection and approval, provided they disclose that information to the seller. A new inspection must then take place within one hundred and twenty days immediately preceding that sale. The act also makes provisions for buyers who purchase vehicles without prior inspection and lays out circumstances under which those returns are acceptable.

The act lays out maximum fees for emission testing as well as procedures for owners and inspection facilities.

The Missouri Air Pollution Control Fund is created with this act. Moneys from this fund are to be allocated between the Missouri state Highway Patrol, Department of Natural Resources, the Air Pollution Control Program, and other expenditures decided upon by the General Assembly for the administration and enforcement of vehicle inspections.

MEGAN CRAIN