California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 3 - Vehicle Registration and Titling
Section 156.01 - Clean Air Vehicle Decals: Transfers and Replacements

(a) Clean Air Vehicle Decals shall remain with the qualifying vehicle for which they were originally issued, regardless of changes in ownership.

(b) A new Clean Air Vehicle certification document (i.e., "Clean Air Certificate," issued with each set of Clean Air Vehicle Decals) shall be made available for subsequent (i.e., transfer) purchasers of qualifying vehicles to which Clean Air Vehicle Decals have been issued. The department shall issue a new Certificate which shall retain the vehicle description while providing the new ownership information.

(c) Clean Air Vehicle Decals shall be made available for issuance in complete sets as replacements for Clean Air Vehicle Decals that are damaged, destroyed, stolen, or not received, provided that such replacement decals issued are the same year decal originally issued to the vehicle.

(d) Applicants for replacement Clean Air Vehicle Decals or a replacement Clean Air Certificate shall apply in accordance with Section 156.00(d)(1)(A) through (d)(1)(H).

(e) Any and all remaining Clean Air Vehicle Decals previously assigned to a vehicle shall be removed from the vehicle and destroyed before replacement decals are affixed to the vehicle.

(f) A $27.00 fee for each replacement set of Clean Air Vehicle Decals shall be submitted electronically.

There is no fee for an applicant requesting a Clean Air Certificate only. The fee will not be required of an applicant who indicates on the application that the original decals were never received.