§ 680.101. Legislative findings and determination.

The Council finds and determines that:

(a)

The 1981 Session of the Legislature repealed F.S. Ch. 325, Pt. II and abolished the statewide motor vehicle safety inspection program, effective October 1, 1981, and after September 30, 1981 there will be no mandatory vehicle safety inspection program throughout the state.

(b)

There are certain types or classes of motor vehicles that should be required to be inspected for operational and structural safety notwithstanding that the general requirement for safety inspections has been repealed.

(c)

Owners and operators of private motor vehicles may wish to continue the safety inspections of their motor vehicles, in order to ascertain whether and to what extent the motor vehicles are safe for operation upon the public streets and highways.

(d)

The public health, welfare and safety will be promoted and protected if a local vehicle inspection program, mandatory in part and voluntary in part, is established by law.

(e)

The motor vehicle safety inspection program created and required by this Chapter is the appropriate method of accomplishing this public purpose.

(Ord. 81-778-320, § 1; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1)

Note— Former § 432.101.