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Originally Posted by Morgester
Remember I am not DMV and it is DMV who decides how to implement the laws as they currently exist in California. The only reason I am involved in this process is to deal with the resulting registration fallout that follows our office’s prosecutions of illegal registration services. Our goal is to place the registered owner in a position they would have been had they registered the vehicle legally.
Here we have two rules at issue "full faith and credit" and the SPCN rule. In the past we have seen DMV Field Offices use the “full faith and credit” to issue a year on a SPCN that allowed it to be smog exempt. DMV’s main office is now looking at the issue and it appears that they will register the vehicles but the vehicles still have to comply with SPCN emission standards – SB100 or pass an emission test for the year of the build.
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Mr Morgester,
Which governmental entity is responsible for investigating illegal registrations and forwarding them to your office for prosecution? If the DMV's main office is investigating, then they are really auditing inconsistencies regarding how their own field offices interpreted and applied "full faith and credit" to register out of state cars with a smog exemption.
Thanks for posting and your efforts to keep the CC community up to date.