Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

The first paragraph of section 7A of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1984 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence and inserting in place thereof the following sentence:- The registrar shall establish rules and regulations providing for a periodic annual staggered safety and combined safety and emissions inspection of all motor vehicles; provided, however, that a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of over eight thousand five hundred pounds, if gross weight rating is not available a registered weight in excess of eight thousand five hundred pounds, motorcycles, diesel powered vehicles, motor vehicles more than fifteen model years old before the date of inspection, and motor vehicles not capable of a speed greater than twenty-five miles per hour under any condition of operation or loading on a level surface shall be exempt from such emissions inspection but shall be subject to such safety inspection, and such vehicle shall be inspected for excessive smoke emissions, as provided in section sixteen.