[Ron61]

Specially Constructed Vehicles: Assignment of Model-Year
4750.1. (a) If the department receives an application for registration of a specially constructed passenger vehicle or pickup truck after it has registered 500 specially constructed vehicles during that calendar year pursuant to Section 44017.4 of the Health and Safety Code, and the vehicle has not been previously registered, the vehicle shall be assigned the same model-year as the calendar year in which the application is submitted, for purposes of determining emissions ( ) inspection requirements for the vehicle.

(b) If the department receives an application for registration of a specially constructed passenger vehicle or pickup truck that has been previously registered after it has registered 500 specially constructed vehicles during that calendar year pursuant to Section 44017.4 of the Health and Safety Code, and the application requests a model-year determination different from the model-year assigned in the previous registration, the application for registration shall be denied and the vehicle owner is subject to the emission control and inspection requirements applicable to the model-year assigned in the previous registration. For a vehicle that participated in the amnesty program pursuant to Section 9565, the model-year of the previous registration shall be the calendar year of the year in which the vehicle owner applied for amnesty. However, a denial of an application for registration issued pursuant to this subdivision does not preclude the vehicle owner from applying for a different model-year determination and application for registration under Section 44017.4 of the Health and Safety Code in a subsequent calendar year.

Added Sec. 2, Ch. 693, Stats. 2002. Effective January 1, 2003.
Amended Sec. 2, Ch. 420, Stats. 2008. Effective January 1, 2009.
The 2008 amendment added the italicized material, and at the point(s) indicated, deleted the following “control equipment and”

All well and good but you have never answered my question as to the elimination of the 500 number limit and if it just applies to the year or length of time the Amnesty program runs. I have read all of these sections and have them printed out. I can almost recite them from memory. This section states that if they receive a request for registration AFTER the 500 numbers are used and is the same as it has been for the past few years, Nothing new there. What I have asked is, does the 500 number limit come back once the Amnesty is over and we go back to the original SB-100 limit of 500 per year. Please just a Yes or No answer and if No, then please explain just what is going to happen. Everyone who never bothered to read your prior posts have the impression that this state is going to allow an unlimited number of Special Construction vehicles to be registered every year from now on if that bill in the other thread passes. Is this true?

Thanks,

Ron