Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 114 - CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM MOTOR VEHICLES
Subchapter C - VEHICLE INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE; LOW INCOME VEHICLE REPAIR ASSISTANCE, RETROFIT, AND ACCELERATED VEHICLE RETIREMENT PROGRAM; AND EARLY ACTION COMPACT COUNTIES
Division 3 - EARLY ACTION COMPACT COUNTIES
Section 114.87 - Inspection and Maintenance Fees
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) The following fees must be paid for an emissions inspection of a vehicle at an inspection station in an affected early action compact program county. This fee must include one free retest if the vehicle fails the emissions inspection, provided that the motorist has the retest performed at the same station where the vehicle originally failed; the motorist submits, prior to the retest, a properly completed vehicle repair form showing that emissions-related repairs were performed; and the retest is conducted within 15 days of the initial emissions test. In Travis and Williamson Counties beginning September 1, 2005 and ending on the day before the single sticker transition date as defined in § 114.1 of this title (relating to Definitions), any emissions inspection station required to conduct an emissions test in accordance with § 114.80 of this title (relating to Applicability) must collect a fee not to exceed $16 and remit $4.50 to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) for each on-board diagnostic and two-speed idle test. In Travis and Williamson Counties beginning on the single sticker transition date, any emissions inspection station required to conduct an emissions test in accordance with § 114.80 of this title must collect a fee not to exceed $11.50 for each on-board diagnostic and two-speed idle test.
(b) The per-vehicle fee and the amount the inspection station remits to the DPS for a challenge test at an inspection station designated by the DPS must be the same as the amounts specified in subsection (a) of this section. The challenge fee must not be charged if the vehicle is retested within 15 days of the initial test.
(c) Inspection stations performing out-of-cycle vehicle emissions inspections resulting from written notification that the subject vehicle failed on-road testing (remote sensing) must charge a motorist for an out-of-cycle emissions inspection in the amount specified in subsection (a) of this section. If the vehicle passes the vehicle emissions inspection, the vehicle owner may request reimbursement from the DPS.
(d) Beginning on the single sticker transition date as defined in § 114.1 of this title in Travis and Williamson Counties, the following requirements apply.