SB 1027 — Vehicle safety inspection; commercial vehicles, exemption.

SESSION ENROLLED VIRGINIA ACTS OF ASSEMBLY ––-- 2023 SESSION CHAPTER E395 An Act to amend and reenact § 46.2-1158.01 of the Code of Virginia, relating to vehicle safety N inspection;

R O [S 1027] Approved LMarch L23, 2023 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

E § 46.2-1158.01.

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The following shall be exempt from inspection as required by § 46.2-1157:

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Antique motor vehicles or antique trailers as defined in § 46.2-100 and licensed pursuant to § 46.2-730;44.

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A truck, tractor truck, trailer, or semitrailer for which the period fixed for inspection0hasinspection has expired while the vehicle was outside the Commonwealth (i) from a point outside the Commonwealth to the place where such vehicle is kept or garaged within the Commonwealth or (ii) to a destination wi7hinwithin the Commonwealth where such vehicle will be (a) unloaded within 24 hours of entering the Commonwealth, (b) inspected within such 24-hour period, and (c) operated, after being unloaded, only to an inspection station or to the place where it is kept or garaged within the Commonwealth;

dealers or distributors may take delivery and operate upon the highways of the Commonwealth new motor vehicles, new trailers, or new semitrailers from another dealer or distributor provided a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer shall not be considered new if driven upon the highways for any purpose other than the delivery of the vehicle;

purchaser's10. place of residence or the dealer's or distributor's designated place of business;

Motor vehicles, trailers, or semitrailers purchased outside the 11.Commonwealth driven to the purchaser's place of residence or the dealer's or distributor's designated place of business;

Prior11. to purchase from auto auctions, motor vehicles, trailers, or semitrailers operated upon the highways not to exceed a 10-mile radius of such auction by prospective purchasers only for the purpose of road testing and motor vehicles, trailers, or semitrailers purchased from auto auctions operated upon the highways from such auction to (i) an official safety inspection station provided that (a) the inspection station is located between the auto auction and the purchaser's residence or place of business or within a 10-mile radius of such residence or business and (b) the vehicle is taken to the inspection station on the same day the purchaser removes the vehicle from the auto auction or (ii) the purchaser's pla12.

Prior to purchase from auto auctions, motor vehicles, trailers, or semitrailers operated upon the highways not to exceed a 10-mile radius of such auction by prospective purchasers only for the purpose of road testing and motor vehicles, trailers, or semitrailers purchased from auto auctions operated upon the highways from such auction to (i) an official safety inspection station provided that (a) the inspection station is located between the auto auction and the purchaser's residence or place of business or within a 10-mile radius of such residence or business and (b) the vehicle is taken to the inspection station on the same day the purchaser removes the vehicle from the auto auction or (ii) the purchaser's place of residence or business;

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Logtrailers as exempted under § 46.2-1159;

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A new motor vehicle, as defined in § 46.2-1500, that has been inspected in accordance with an of 2 inspection requirement of the manufacturer or distributor of the new motor vehicle by an employee who customarily performs such inspection on behalf of a motor vehicle dealer licensed pursuant to § 46.2-1508.