Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 13-1-1-4; IC 13-1-1-6; IC 13-7-7
Affected: IC 13-1-1; IC 13-7-1-1; IC 13-7-7-5
Sec. 3.
(a)
Violations of the following provisions constitute tampering for the purposes of
this rule:
(1) No person shall rent, lease,
sell, offer for sale, or in any manner transfer ownership of a motor vehicle
with knowledge that the vehicle has been subject to tampering. For the purposes
of this subdivision, knowledge of tampering shall be imputed to any person
engaged in the business of repairing, servicing, selling, leasing, or trading
motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines or any person who operates a fleet of
motor vehicles.
(2) No person shall
cause, suffer, allow, or permit the removal, dismantling, disconnnection,
disabling, or disrepair of any emission control system which has been installed
on a motor vehicle by the manufacturer, unless such emission control system is
replaced with an accepted aftermarket catalytic converter or other emission
control system which meets the performance criteria specified in 40 C.F.R. 85,
Subpart V*, and the requirements of section 4 of this rule.
(3) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or
advertise for sale any add-on part or modified part which inhibits the
effectiveness or bypasses an emission control system or otherwise fails to meet
the performance criteria for certification specified in 40 C.F.R. 85, Subpart
V.
(4) No person shall operate a
motor vehicle with knowledge that the vehicle has been subject to tampering.
For the purposes of this subdivision, knowledge of tampering shall be imputed
to any person engaged in the business of repairing, servicing, selling,
leasing, or trading motor vehicles or motor vehicle engines or any person who
operates a fleet of motor vehicles.
(b) Violations of the following provisions
constitute engine switching for the purposes of this rule:
(1) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or
permit the installation of an engine into a light duty motor vehicle, unless
the resulting vehicle is identical to a certified configuration of the same or
newer model year as the vehicle chassis.
(2) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or
permit the installation of an engine into a heavy duty motor vehicle, unless
the installed engine is identical to a certified configuration of an engine
which is the same or newer model year as the installed engine.
(3) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or
permit the installation of an engine designed for a heavy duty motor vehicle
into a light duty motor vehicle.
(c) Violations of the following provisions
constitute fuel switching for the purposes of this rule:
(1) No person shall sell, dispense, or offer
for sale gasoline represented to be unleaded unless such gasoline meets the
requirements for unleaded gasoline specified in section 2 of this
rule.
(2) No person shall knowingly
introduce or cause or allow the introduction of leaded gasoline into a motor
vehicle which was originally designed to use unleaded gasoline only.
(3) No person shall modify the gasoline pump
dispensing nozzle in order to dispense leaded gasoline into a motor vehicle
which was originally designed to use unleaded gasoline only. Each leaded
gasoline pump shall be equipped with a nozzle spout having a terminal end with
an outside diameter of not less than ninety-three hundredths (0.93) inches.
Each unleaded gasoline pump shall be equipped with a nozzle spout having a
terminal end with an outside diameter not greater than eighty-four hundredths
(0.84) inches and the spout length from retaining spring to the tip shall be a
minimum of two and seventy-five hundredths (2.75) inches.
(4) All gasoline dispensing facilities shall
display permanent signs clearly distinguishing unleaded and leaded gasoline
dispensing pumps.
(5) Each gasoline
dispensing facility shall display permanent signs visible to an individual
introducing gasoline into a motor vehicle. The sign shall state that federal
and state law prohibits the introduction of leaded gasoline into any motor
vehicle designed by the manufacturer for unleaded gasoline only. This notice
shall be no smaller than thirty-six (36) point bold type.
*Copies of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)
referenced may be obtained from the Government Printing Office, 732 North
Capitol Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20401. Copies of pertinent sections are
also available at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Office of
Air Quality, 100 North Senate Avenue, Indiana Government Center-North, Tenth
Floor, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.