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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 8. EQUIPMENT AND INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES · Article 2. CONTROL OF VEHICLE EMISSIONS · Part 1. EMISSION CONTROL DEVICES GENERALLY

40-8-130. Unlawful to operate vehicle without serviceable emission control device; penalty; exceptions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    It shall be unlawful for the owner of any motor vehicle to operate or permit the operation of such vehicle on which any device controlling or abating atmospheric emissions which is placed on a motor vehicle by the manufacturer pursuant to regulations promulgated by the United States secretary of health and human services in accordance with the provisions of Title II, the National Emissions Standards Act, of the Air Quality Act of 1967, Public Law 90-148 has been rendered unserviceable by removal, alteration, or other interference with its operation.#

  2. (b)

    Any person violating subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

  3. (c)

    Subsection (a) of this Code section shall not apply to any person repairing any such device described in that subsection or to the removal of any such device by any person for the purpose of repairing or replacing such device.#

  4. (d)

    Subsection (a) of this Code section shall not apply to any person removing any such device for the purpose of converting any motor vehicle to operate on natural or liquefied petroleum gas or make any other modifications which would reduce atmospheric emissions.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1971, p. 188, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 40; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 40.

Other notes

U.S. Code.
The federal Air Quality Act of 1967, which amended the federal Clean Air Act (now codified at 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq.), was amended by the federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 (P.L. 95-95; 91 Stat. 685). Title II of the Air Quality Act of 1967, the federal National Emissions Standards Act, is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 7521 et seq.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t40-ch6-16-(v29)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V29, 2018 edition, page 535; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.