Getting a yearly vehicle inspection could become a thing of the past in Pennsylvania.
State Senator Marty Flynn of Scranton plans to introduce a bill to end inspections.
He sent a memo recently to all members of the senate.
“Pennsylvania is quite literally the birthplace of vehicle safety inspections, with the nation’s first statute dating back to 1929” part of the memo says. “Despite all of the advances made in the past near century, we are one of only 14 states that still require annual vehicle safety inspections.”
Flynn points out to a 2015 study that shows “vehicle safety inspection mandates do not equate safer roadways.”
Instead, he is calling for inspections only when a vehicle or sold or a title is transferred.
He says the change would save owners about $30 a year.
He also points out that the PennDOT Motor License Fund only gets funding from the sale of the window sticker.
To replace some of the lost revenue from inspections, Flynn includes a $15 increase for annual registration fees.
Emissions testing would continue on a county-by-county basis under EPA guidelines. That means counties, like Allegheny, would continue to have emissions testing.