On 3/18/2010 11:37 AM, Dave In Texas wrote:


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That said, if your vehicle is registered in a county that requires the
emissions test, you can no longer get your annual vehicle inspection
in a county that does not require one. That's a fairly recent change.

Hmmm . . . I'll have to keep that in mind. We keep a vehicle in another
county [where we have a small house] but had no issues getting it
inspected (was it last August or last October?). The tag renewal comes
to the Houston address and we've make sure that State Farm knows the car
does not live in Harris County. I'll have to put the "secretary" on it,
it's hers to drive [anyway] so I'm free to take my truck out to the ranch.

Got bit by this twice last year (2009).

I was building in Elgin when my truck was due for inspection. Tried to
get it inspected in Elgin (no emisssion test required in Bastrop
county), and was told that it was not possible since the truck was
registered in Harris county.

Had to drive 8 miles down 290 to Manor (Travis county) to get it inspected.

Now, Elgin is expanding and parts of it are in Travis county. What are
they gonna do when an inspection station opens in the "expanded" part of
Elgin?

The other time was with our youngest daughter, whose Subaru has Texas
plates and is registered in Harris county.

She was in college in AR for five years and would drive down to
Texarkana (actually, New Boston) for the yearly inspections.

Last year (March 2009), she made the trip and they refused to inspect
it. She had to drive the car down to Houston months later with an
expired inspection sticker, just waiting to get stopped the entire time.

(At one time in Texas, a State Trooper or local yokel would have
understood and waved her on, but they are mostly too illiterate today to
make a common sense call like that, so, being a law abiding type, it was
a real concern to her.)

All the above notwithstanding, I do believe that you have an option to
sign an affidavit and get an inspection, but once doing so, you
apparently have to register your vehicle in a county that requires no
emission test the next year ... might be worth checking out.

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