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DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES
NOTICE OF FINAL 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 (2012 Repl.)), and Mayor’s Order 94-176, effective August 2, 1994, hereby gives notice of the adoption of 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 revise the safe operating condition and compliance inspection of taxicabs and other vehicles for hire from semi-annual to annual and modify the inspection fee to seventy dollars ($70).
A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published in the D.C. Register on June 19, 2015 at 62 DCR 8695. No comments were received. No changes were made to the text of the proposed rules. The rules were adopted as final on July 22, 2015, and will become effective upon publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Title 18, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC, of the DCMR is amended as follows:
Chapter 6, INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES, 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.”
