At 09:50 PM 3/28/96 -0600, Edmund A. Hintz wrote: >>At 10:38 AM 3/28/1996 -0600, Maher, Steve (SD-MS) wrote: >>> >>>You don't have to abandon your non-CA car when you move here... at >>>least, that's the official line. What you DO have to do, is pay a $300 >>>fine for every non-CA car you bring into the state. They call it an > > To which Ron replied: >>This isn't true, actually. When I moved here (in 1990), I was not required >>to pay any fee for my 1987 Golf. It may only be true for cars that emit >>excessive pollutants. (If this is the case, GOOD! Polluters should be >>fined.) > > Actually, it is true. I was told so by DMV themselves. Most likely >your Golf was sold originally with CA emissions. It doesn't actually matter >*where* the car was originally sold, if it came with the CA emissions >sticker/package. And you can buy the CA emissions in any state, just in CA >you're requiered to have them. Actually, the Steve Maher said the following: >You don't have to abandon your non-CA car when you move here... at >least, that's the official line. What you DO have to do, is pay a $300 >fine for every non-CA car you bring into the state. They call it an >Environmental Fee or some such, but it goes into the same general fund >that traffic tickets and court fines go into. The gummint's way of >getting around the Constitutional ban on interstate tariffs, maybe. The part that isn't true was Steve's (typical right-wing distortionist grrrrr) comment that this was a government ploy to get around a ban on interstate tariffs. I bought my car in Massachusetts, and there was no $300 'tariff' placed on my car when I came to California. Ron -- Ron 'Coyote' Lussier /\_/\ ____ Chaco Communications (408) 865-0657 ( ) \ _/__ 10164 Parkwood Drive #8 coyote@chaco.com \ / \X / Cupertino, CA 95014-1533 (1990 VW Westfalia Camper) \_/ \/ http://www.chaco.com/~coyote
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