46.16.017 - Emission standards--Compliance required to register, lease, rent, or sell vehicles--Exemptions. - Washington Statutes

Emission standards — Compliance required to register, lease, rent, or sell vehicles — Exemptions. (Effective until July 1, 2011.)

After adoption of rules specified in RCW 70.120A.010, no vehicle shall be registered, leased, rented, or sold for use in the state starting with the model year as provided in RCW 70.120A.010 unless the vehicle: (1)(a) Is consistent with the vehicle emission standards as adopted by the department of ecology; (b) is consistent with the carbon dioxide equivalent emission standards as adopted by the department of ecology; and (c) has a California certification label for (i) all emission standards, and (ii) carbon dioxide equivalent emission standards necessary to meet fleet average requirements; or (2) has seven thousand five hundred miles or more. The department of licensing, in consultation with the department of ecology, may adopt rules necessary to implement this section and may provide for reasonable exemptions to these requirements. The department of ecology may exempt public safety vehicles from meeting the standards where the department finds that vehicles necessary to meet the needs of public safety agencies are not otherwise reasonably available.

[2005 c 295 § 7.]

Notes: Effective date -- 2005 c 295 §§ 1, 2, 7, and 11-13: See note following RCW 70.120A.010.