600.1 This chapter shall contain rules prescribing standards for safety equipment materials, and the condition of motor vehicles driven in the District of Columbia requirements for annual inspection of all motor vehicles registered in the District; and the procedure under which approved, rejected, and condemned vehicles shall be processed.

600.2 No person shall drive, move, or permit the operation or use of any vehicle which is mechanically unsafe, improperly equipped, or otherwise unfit to be operated.

600.3 Any police officer or other authorized agent of the District may inspect and test the lights, brakes, steering assembly, tires, equipment horn, emission control equipment, exhaust emissions, or other device required by this title at any time a vehicle is on the public streets or public space.

600.4 Any police officer or other authorized agent of the District may order the removal of an unsafe or improperly equipped vehicle from any public street or space to one of the official District Inspection Stations for reinspection notwithstanding the fact that the vehicle displays an approved inspection sticker.

600.5 When notified by the Director, a registrant shall present his or her vehicle for mechanical inspection at a time and place designated by the Director.

600.6 The Director is authorized, in his or her discretion, to provide for inspection by District personnel at a location other than a District inspection station, of the vehicles in any fleet of five hundred (500) or more motor vehicles registered in the District in the name of one (1) owner, if the owner does the following:

(a) Constructs, or otherwise provides for, facilities and equipment for the inspection of the vehicles substantially equivalent, as determined by the Director, to the motor vehicle inspection facilities and equipment operated by the District; and

(b) Conforms to a schedule for the inspection of the vehicles agreed upon, orally or in writing, between the owner and the Director.

AUTHORITY: Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is § 7 of an act to provide for annual inspection of all motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, approved February 18, 1938 (52 Stat. 78; D.C. Code § 40-207); §§ 401 and 402 of Reorganization Plan No.3 of 1967, effective August 11, 1967, filed August 11, 1967, D.C. Code Vol. 1 at 126(1981 Ed.); Reorganization Plan No.2 of 1975, effective July 25, 1975, 21 DCR 3198; 22 DCR 961; § 412 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act as amended, 87 Stat. 790, Pub.L. No. 93-198, D.C. Code § 1-227(a); Sec. 107 of the District of Columbia Traffic Adjudication Act of 1978, D.C. Law 2-104, 25 DCR 1275 (August 11,

1978); the District of Columbia Exhaust Emission/Maintenance Program Amendments Act of 1980 effective March 5, 1981 D.C. Law 3-152, 27 DCR 4907 (November 7, 1980); and §§ IV(A) and V of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983, 30 DCR 8428 (12-16-83).

SOURCE: Regulation No. 72-13 effective June 30, 1972, 32 DCRR § 4.101, 4.201, 4.202(d). (e), Special Edition; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 41 DCR 4936 (July 22, 1994).