California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 3 - Air Resources Board
Chapter 4.4 - Specifications for Fill Pipes and Openings of Motor Vehicle Fuel Tanks
Section 2235 - Requirements
New 1977 through 2014 model-year gasoline-fueled motor vehicles and 1993 through 2014 model-year methanol-fueled passenger cars, light-duty trucks, medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles shall not be sold, offered for sale or registered in California unless such vehicles comply with the Air Resources Board's "Specifications for Fill Pipes and Openings of 1977 through 2014 Model Motor Vehicle Fuel Tanks," dated March 19, 1976 as last amended March 22, 2012, which is incorporated by reference herein or, in the case of motorcycles, are exempted pursuant to Chapter 1, Article 2, Section 1976(b). New 2015 and subsequent model-year gasoline and alcohol fueled passenger cars, light trucks, medium-duty vehicles, and heavy-duty vehicles shall not be sold, offered for sale, or registered in California unless such vehicles comply with the "Specifications for Fill Pipes and Openings of 2015 and Subsequent Model Motor Vehicle Fuel Tanks," adopted March 22, 2012 and last amended May 31, 2019, which is incorporated by reference. Motorcycles are exempted pursuant to Chapter 1, Article 2, Section 1976(b).
1. Change
without regulatory effect renumbering chapter heading and renumbering and
amending former section
2290 to section 2235 filed 9-17-91
pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 92, No. 4).
2. Amendment filed 8-8-2012;
operative 8-8-2012 pursuant to Government Code section
11343.4
(Register 2012, No. 32).
3. Amendment filed 7-22-2019; operative
10-1-2019 (Register 2019, No. 30).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 39600, 39601, 43013, 43018, 43101, 43104, 43107 and 43835, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 39003, 43000, 43013, 43018, 43101, 43104, 43106, 43204 and 43835, Health and Safety Code; and Sections 28111 and 28112, Vehicle Code.
