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season. The program is a key element in the Massachusetts State Implementation Plan (SIP)
to reduce ozone pollution and achieve and maintain clean air.
The safety inspection portion of the program aims to ensure that all motor vehicles
meet minimum safety standards at the time of inspection and are free from defects that would
impair the safe operation of a motor vehicle. The safety inspection includes, but is not limited
to, ensuring that a motor vehicle’s major mechanical components are in safe working order.
Ensuring that a motor vehicle meets minimum safety standards for operation greatly reduces
the risk of personal injury to the operator and the motoring public.
Program Goal
The overall goal of the program is to substantially reduce emissions from motor
vehicles and to ensure their safe mechanical condition in compliance with Commonwealth of
Massachusetts requirements. To accomplish this goal, gasoline, alternative fuel, and diesel
vehicles will be subject to annual safety and emissions inspections. The program will deliver
these inspections through a convenient network of local inspection stations.
Vehicles To Be Inspected
All vehicles registered in Massachusetts (excluding tactical military vehicles), trailers
over 3,000 Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR), semi-trailers, converter dollies, 7D
vehicles, and motorcycles will be subject to a safety test, regardless of model year or
emissions testing requirements. An existing network of motorcycle inspection stations, which
have separate licensing and training requirements, will provide motorcycle safety inspections.
Most vehicles are subject to the emissions test. The Workstation and database shall
automatically determine whether the vehicle shall receive an emissions test and which type of
emissions test it will receive (OBD II or Diesel Opacity), based on the vehicle data entered.
Massachusetts Vehicle Check
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