A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to change safety and emissions inspections of motor vehicles from an annual inspection to one inspection every two years.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑183.4D(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	When Sticker Expires. – An inspection sticker put on a vehicle that did not have an inspection sticker issued under this Part when it was brought in for inspection expires at midnight on the last day of the twenty‑fourth month after the month the inspection sticker is put on the vehicle. An inspection sticker put on a vehicle that had an inspection sticker that was put on under this Part when it was brought in for inspection expires as follows:
(1)	If the expiration date of the inspection sticker the vehicle had when it was brought in for inspection is less than 24 full months from the date of the inspection, the inspection sticker expires at midnight on the last day of the twenty‑fourth month after the month the inspection sticker is put on the vehicle.
(2)	If the expiration date of the inspection sticker the vehicle had when it was brought in for inspection is 24 or more months from the date of the inspection, the inspection sticker expires two years after the expiration date of the inspection sticker the vehicle had when it was brought in for inspection, regardless of whether there are 24 months in this period."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2007, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.