The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 567)
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§ 567. Motor vehicle pollution
(a) The Secretary in conjunction with the Department of Motor Vehicles may provide rules
for the control of emissions from motor vehicles. Such rules may prescribe requirements
for the installation and use of equipment designed to reduce or eliminate emissions
and for the proper maintenance of the equipment and the vehicles. Rules pursuant
to this section shall be consistent with provisions of federal law, if any, relating
to control of emissions from the vehicles concerned and shall not require, as a condition
precedent to the initial sale of a vehicle or vehicular equipment, the inspection,
certification, or other approval of any feature or equipment designed for the control
of emissions from motor vehicles, if the feature or equipment has been certified,
approved, or otherwise authorized pursuant to federal law.
(b) Except as permitted or authorized by law, no person shall fail to maintain in good
working order or remove, dismantle, or otherwise cause to be inoperative any equipment
or feature constituting an operational element of the air pollution control system
or mechanism of a motor vehicle and required by rules pursuant to this chapter to
be maintained in or on the vehicle. Any failure to maintain in good working order
or removal, dismantling, or causing of inoperability shall subject the owner or operator
to suspension or cancellation of the registration for the vehicle by the Department
of Motor Vehicles. The vehicle shall not thereafter be eligible for registration until
all parts and equipment constituting operational elements of the motor vehicle have
been restored, replaced, or repaired and are in good working order.
(c) The Secretary shall consult with the Department of Motor Vehicles and furnish it with
technical information, including testing techniques, standards, and instructions for
emission control features and equipment.
(d) When rules have been issued requiring the maintenance of features or equipment in
or on motor vehicles for the purpose of controlling emissions therefrom, no motor
vehicle shall be issued an inspection sticker unless all the required features or
equipment have been inspected in accordance with the standards, testing techniques,
and instructions furnished pursuant to subsection (b) hereof and has been found to
meet those standards.
(e) The remedies and penalties provided here apply to violations of this section and provisions
of section 568 of this title shall not apply.
(f) As used in this section, “motor vehicle” shall have the same meaning as defined in
23 V.S.A. § 4. (Added 1967, No. 310 (Adj. Sess.), § 16; amended 1971, No. 212 (Adj. Sess.), § 3.)