BILL NUMBER: SB 811INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator DeSaulnier FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to add Section 4750.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 811, as introduced, DeSaulnier. Vehicles: specially constructed vehicles. Existing law, upon application for registration of a vehicle previously registered outside this state, requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to grant full faith and credit to the currently valid certificate of title describing the vehicle, the ownership thereof, and the liens thereon, issued by the state in which the vehicle was last registered. Existing law also requires the department to require upon registration of a motor vehicle, previously registered outside this state, a valid certificate of compliance, or a certificate of noncompliance, with California's emission regulations. Existing law additionally requires specially constructed vehicles, depending on various criteria, to be subject to different emission inspection and control requirements based on the engine model year, the vehicle model year, or the calendar year in which the application for vehicle registration is submitted. This bill would require specially constructed vehicles, as defined, that were previously registered outside this state to be subject to emission control and inspection requirements applicable to the same calendar year that the vehicle was originally constructed as a specially constructed vehicle. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 4750.2 is added to the Vehicle Code, to read: 4750.2. Notwithstanding Section 4304 or 4750.1, if the application for registration of a vehicle previously registered outside this state is for a specially constructed vehicle, as defined in Section 580, the vehicle is subject to emission control and inspection requirements applicable to the same calendar year that the vehicle was originally constructed as a specially constructed vehicle, unless otherwise modified by Section 44017.4 of the Health and Safety Code.