CODE OF VIRGINIA

VEHICLE EMISSIONS INSPECTION PROGRAM FUND ESTABLISHED; USE OF MONEYS (§
46.2-1182.2)

A special nonreverting fund known as the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program
Fund is hereby established in the state treasury.Notwithstanding the provisions
of § 2.2-1802, all moneys collected pursuant to § 46.2-1182.1 shall be paid
into the treasury and credited to the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program
Fund.No moneys remaining in the Fund at the end of each fiscal year shall revert
to the general fund, but shall remain in the Fund. Interest earned on such
moneys shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it.The Department of
Environmental Quality may release moneys from the Fund, on warrants issued by
the State Comptroller, for covering the costs of the emissions inspection
program, including payment to the program coordinator for contracted services.
The moneys in this Fund may also be released for the purpose of long-term
maintenance of air quality and the correction and prevention of nonattainment
status for National Ambient Air Quality Standards through air quality programs
under the direction of the Director. Any remaining funds shall be remitted for
use in transportation maintenance projects so that such funds generated from
localities required to have emissions inspections pursuant to subsection B of §
46.2-1178 shall have such remaining funds generated pursuant to § 46.2-1182.1
transferred on an annual basis to the Northern Virginia Transportation District.
Such funds shall be used for transportation maintenance in the respective
locality.

HISTORY: 1993, cc. 995, 998; 1993, Sp. Sess., c. 2; 2012, cc. 216, 824.