Date:         Thu, 28 Mar 1996 22:38:26 -0800
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Ron Lussier <coyote@zuni.chaco.com>
Subject:      RE: what year did california get it's own bus?

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