California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 33 - Bureau of Automotive Repair
Chapter 1 - Automotive Repair Dealers and Official Stations and Adjusters
Article 2 - Licensing of Official Stations and Adjusters
Section 3305 - Station Performance, Work Area, and Adjuster Required

(a) All adjusting, inspecting, servicing, and repairing of brake systems and lamp systems for the purpose of issuing any certificate of compliance or adjustment shall be performed in official stations, by official adjusters, in accordance with the following, in descending order of precedence, as applicable:

(b) The specific activities for which an official station is licensed shall be performed only in an area of the station that has been approved by the Bureau. Other work may be performed in the approved area, as desired. The work area shall be within a building and shall be large enough to accommodate the motor vehicle being serviced. The Bureau may make an exception to the preceding requirement by approving a work area adjacent to a building for purposes of inspecting and adjusting equipment and devices on buses, trucks, truck tractors, trailers, and semitrailers. The work area shall be kept clean and orderly.

(c) The services of an officially licensed adjuster appropriate to each type and class of station license held shall be available at each official station, except a fleet owner station, not less than 40 hours weekly or not less than half of the hours the station is open for business weekly, whichever is less. Fleet owner stations are required to provide the services of a licensed adjuster only for certification procedures.

(d) This section shall become inoperative on September 27, 2024.