Does your OUT OF STATE vehicle (car, mc, truck) have a 49 or 50-state sticker?

Does your OUT OF STATE vehicle (car, mc, truck) have a 49 or 50-state
sticker?

There is some disagreement on the Android/Apple newsgroups related to the
proposed 5-year retroactive California texting tax where someone brought up
the fact that they "thought" you could register a *new* out of state car in
California, that you bought with fewer than 7,500 miles on the odometer.

According to this reference, you can NEVER register it in California
(if they _know_ you bought it with fewer than 7,500 miles, that is):
<https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/brochures/fast_facts/ffvr29>

Everything boils down to what the *sticker* says.
If the sticker does not have (literally) the word California, then it's a
goner. You can _never_ register it in California.

The sticker is all they care about (it can pass emissions, and it will, but
that's not what they care about).

Since I only have California vehicles, I want to ask others out there.

Does YOUR non-California vehicle literally have the word "California" in
the emissions label?

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:11:12 -0000 (UTC), arlen
holder > wrote:

>Does your OUT OF STATE vehicle (car, mc, truck) have a 49 or 50-state
>sticker?
>
>There is some disagreement on the Android/Apple newsgroups related to the
>proposed 5-year retroactive California texting tax where someone brought up
>the fact that they "thought" you could register a *new* out of state car in
>California, that you bought with fewer than 7,500 miles on the odometer.
>
>According to this reference, you can NEVER register it in California
>(if they _know_ you bought it with fewer than 7,500 miles, that is):
> <https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/brochures/fast_facts/ffvr29>
>
>Everything boils down to what the *sticker* says.
>If the sticker does not have (literally) the word California, then it's a
>goner. You can _never_ register it in California.
>
>The sticker is all they care about (it can pass emissions, and it will, but
>that's not what they care about).
>
>Since I only have California vehicles, I want to ask others out there.
>
>Does YOUR non-California vehicle literally have the word "California" in
>the emissions label?

I have no experience with this but wouldn't be suprised. New cars sold
in California have to meet its emission standards. That's how they got
rid of smog in LA. They did get rid of it, didnt' they?

So how would it be if people from California could fly to some other
state, buy a non-Cal car there, have a one- or two-week vacation drive
and end up back in california, and then register the car in Cal,
avoiding the law requiring higher emission standards.

Or, maybe they could just get dropped off right across the border and
drive 5 miles back to Cal.

Clearly 5 miles aren't enought to stop this, and the miles from a 2-week
car trip aren't enough, so what is? I say 7,500 or bust. Seventy Five
0 0 or fight.

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:11:12 -0000 (UTC), arlen
holder > wrote:

>
>
>Does YOUR non-California vehicle literally have the word "California" in
>the emissions label?

BTW, I'm sure almost no car sold out of cal has cal in the emilssion
labels, because such cars are more expensive, or get lower mileage, and
people don't want them unless the law requires them to buy one, and
that's only true in Cal.

Maybe once in a great while a mistake is made and such a car gets
shipped to a dealer out of Cal, and sold to someone who doesn't know
prices or doesn't car about, what, 2 or 300??? dollars, but with more
computers that's probably rarer than ever.

In article >, micky
> wrote:

>
> BTW, I'm sure almost no car sold out of cal has cal in the emilssion
> labels, because such cars are more expensive, or get lower mileage, and
> people don't want them unless the law requires them to buy one, and
> that's only true in Cal.

false.

<https://www.greencarreports.com/news...-follow-califo
rnias-emission-and-zero-emission-vehicle-rules>
Thirteen states‹mostly in the Northeast and Northwest‹and the
District of Columbia have adopted California's stricter emissions
standards, many of which also participate in the zero-emission
vehicle mandate.

Known as "Section 177" states, those 13 a Connecticut, Delaware,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

Arizona adopted California's standards in 2008, but the state
repealed them as soon as Governor Jan Brewer took office in January
2012.