Procedure for diesel-powered commercial motor vehicles which do not meet smoke opacity inspection standards at the time of roadside inspection

inspection standards at the time of roadside inspection (a) A motor vehicle inspector shall issue the owner, carrier or operator of a diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle not meeting the smoke opacity inspection standards at the termination of the inspection, an inspection report indicating a fail designation. (b) Each person who operates or permits the operation of any diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle that fails the diesel emissions inspection shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 14-164i(f) of the Connecticut General Statutes. (c) The owner of any diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle receiving a fail designation shall be required to submit documentation to the Department within forty-five (45) days of the diesel emissions inspection date, that the vehicle has undergone emissions related repairs. Failure to have the vehicle repaired within the forty-five (45) day period, and to provide documentation of such emissions repair within said time period, shall result in the suspension of the vehicle's registration or the privilege to operate the vehicle on the highways of the state. Any diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle not meeting the smoke opacity inspection standards pursuant to section 14-164i-2 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies shall be subject to the requirements of this subsection and section 14-164i-6 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. (d) Any diesel-powered commercial motor vehicle presented for the roadside inspection which is required, pursuant to the regulations of the Commissioner of Environmental Protection as authorized by section 22a-174 of the Connecticut General Statutes, to be equipped with an air pollution control system or mechanism, shall be deemed to have failed to meet the inspection standards if such control system or mechanism is found to have been dismantled or is otherwise inoperable. Such control system or mechanism may be inspected prior to an emissions inspection, during an emissions inspection, or after a vehicle has failed a required emissions inspection.