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2018 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 3 - Safety Responsibility; Financial Security; Equipment; Inspection; Size and Weight; and Other Provisions
Article 5 - Periodic Inspection of Motor Vehicles
304 - Inspection and Certificates of Inspection.

Universal Citation: NY Veh & Traf L § 304 (2018)
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§ 304. Inspection  and  certificates of inspection. (a) No certificate
  or certificates of inspection shall be issued by an official  inspection
  station  until  the  mechanisms  and  other  equipment,  as specified in
  section three hundred one (c) of this  chapter,  of  the  motor  vehicle
  inspected are in proper and safe condition and comply with the rules and
  regulations  of the commissioner and with the laws of this state and the
  emissions of such motor vehicle conform with subdivision (d) of  section
  three  hundred  one of this article and regulations promulgated pursuant
  thereto at the time the certificate is issued.

(b) If  such  inspection  discloses  the  necessity  for  adjustments,
  corrections  or  repairs  the  owner shall be so notified and shall have
  such adjustments, corrections or repairs made within a period of  thirty
  days.  If  such  inspection  discloses improper tire pressure, the owner
  shall be so notified and  may  have  such  adjustments,  corrections  or
  repairs  made  as authorized by this subdivision. The commissioner shall
  establish procedures for reporting the results of such  inspections  and
  for   notifying  the  owners.  The  owner  may  have  such  adjustments,
  corrections and repairs made in any way and by any person provided  that
  such  repairs  are  made  in  a  manner  consistent with federal law and
  regulations.

(c)  The  commissioner  shall  issue  certificates  of  inspection  to
  official  inspection  stations. Such certificates of inspection shall be
  serially numbered and shall bear such information  as  the  commissioner
  may  require,  and  shall include a notice that any complaint against an
  official inspection station for  inadequate  inspection  or  for  making
  excessive  or  unreasonable  repairs,  may  be  made  in  writing to the
  department of motor vehicles at Albany, New York. Each certificate shall
  be valid until the end of the inspection period during which  the  motor
  vehicle  must  again  be  inspected,  as  determined  by  the  rules and
  regulations of the commissioner, or until the end of the  repair  period
  designated under section three hundred four (b), whichever occurs first.

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