§286-209  Safety inspection of motor carriervehicles.  (a)  Motor carrier vehicles, including but not limited totrucks, truck-tractors, semitrailers, trailers, or pole trailers having a grossvehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand pounds, and motor carriervehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or lesswhich transport passengers in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise,including car rental transport vehicles shall be inspected and certifiedannually.

(b)  The director shall adopt rules pursuant tochapter 91 for motor carrier vehicle safety inspections, the issuance ofcertificates of safety inspection, the affixing of motor carrier vehicle safetyinspection decals, and the acceptance of certificates of safety inspectionissued in other jurisdictions.

(c)  The director shall collect a fee of $1.50for each motor carrier vehicle safety inspection decal issued by motor carriervehicle inspection stations.  All moneys collected shall be paid into the statehighway fund.

(d)  A fee of no more than $12 shall be chargedby a motor carrier inspection station for each safety inspection performed.

(e)  For the purposes of this section,"car rental transport vehicles" means motor carrier vehicles used totransport customers to or from car rental sites. [L Sp 1977 1st, c 20, pt of§1; am L 1985, c 246, §1 and c 274, §1; am L 2002, c 138, §2; am L 2005, c 3,§1; am L 2007, c 43, §1]