A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to REDUCE the fee for a REPLACEMENT windshield inspection sticker.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑183.7(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	(Effective July 1, 2007) Fee Amount. – When a fee applies to an inspection of a vehicle or the issuance of an inspection sticker, the fee must be collected. The following fees apply to an inspection of a vehicle and the issuance of an inspection sticker:

Type	Inspection	Sticker
Safety Only	$	8.25	$0.85
Emissions and Safety	23.75	6.25.

The fee for performing an inspection of a vehicle applies when an inspection is performed, regardless of whether the vehicle passes the inspection. The fee for an inspection sticker applies when an inspection sticker is put on a vehicle. The fee for an inspection sticker does not apply to a replacement inspection sticker for use on a windshield replaced by a business registered with the Division pursuant to G.S. 20‑183.6. The fee for inspecting after‑factory tinted windows shall be ten dollars ($10.00), and the fee applies only to an inspection performed with a light meter after a safety inspection mechanic determined that the window had after‑factory tint. A safety inspection mechanic shall not inspect an after‑factory tinted window of a vehicle for which the Division has issued a medical exception permit pursuant to G.S. 20‑127(f).
A vehicle that is inspected at an inspection station and fails the inspection is entitled to be reinspected at the same station at any time within 30 days of the failed inspection without paying another inspection fee.
A vehicle that has a windshield replaced in another state and the issued inspection sticker is destroyed shall be entitled to a replacement sticker. The replacement sticker of the appropriate type shall be issued for the sticker fee established in this subsection if the owner of the vehicle provides to the inspector a receipt for the new windshield, shows the previous sticker was not expired, and no more than 30 days has lapsed from the date of the replacement of the windshield. An inspection sticker replaced under this subsection shall expire in the same month the previous sticker would have expired if not destroyed. An inspection station may not charge more than two dollars ($2.00) for the service of replacing the sticker. 
The inspection fee for an emissions and safety inspection set out in this subsection is the maximum amount that an inspection station or an inspection mechanic may charge for an emissions and safety inspection of a vehicle. An inspection station or an inspection mechanic may charge the maximum amount or any lesser amount for an emissions and safety inspection of a vehicle. The inspection fee for a safety only inspection set out in this subsection may not be increased or decreased. The sticker fees set out in this subsection may not be increased or decreased."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.