5497104 Motor Vehicles,Department of - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Inspection of Public Vehicles for hire

DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

 

NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING

 

The Director of the Department of  Motor Vehicles (“Director”), pursuant to the authority set forth in Sections 1 and 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. Official Code §§ 50-1101 and 50-1107 (2014 Repl.)) and Mayor’s Order 94-176, dated August 2, 1994, hereby gives notice of the intent to adopt the following rulemaking that will amend Chapter 6 (Inspection of Motor Vehicles) of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (“DCMR”).

 

The proposed rules will revise the safe operating condition and compliance inspection of taxicabs and other vehicles for hire from semi-annual to annual and will modify the inspection fee to seventy dollars ($70).

 

The Director also gives notice of intent to take final rulemaking action to adopt these rules in not less than thirty (30) days after the publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.

 

Chapter 6, INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES, of Title 18 DCMR, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, is amended as follows:

 

Section 601, INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS, is amended as follows:

 

Subsection 601.6 is amended as follows:

 

Subparagraph (2) is amended by striking the word “semiannually” and inserting the word “annually” in its place.         

 

Subsection 601.8 is amended as follows:

 

Paragraph (h) is amended by striking the word “and”.

 

Paragraph (i) is amended to read as follows:

 

 (i)        Taxicabs and other vehicles for hire: $70;

 

A new paragraph (j) is added to read as follows:

 

 (j)        All other motor vehicles: $35.

 

 

All persons desiring to comment on the subject matter of this proposed rulemaking should file comments, in writing, to David Glasser, General Counsel, D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, 95 M Street, S.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20024 or online at www.dcregs.dc.gov.    Comments must be received not later than thirty (30) days after the publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.  Copies of this proposal may be obtained, at cost, by writing to the above address.