63-13-5 - Motor vehicle inspection department.
§ 63-13-5. Motor vehicle inspection department.
The commissioner of public safety, together with the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and the commissioner of revenue shall constitute the motor vehicle inspection department of this state and as such are hereby authorized to make necessary rules and regulations for the administration and enforcement of this chapter, including therein a reasonable provision for the bonding of the official inspection stations. In any said rules and regulations no specific brand or type of equipment shall be named or designated as inspection equipment, and only standard of performance shall be set; moreover, said rules and regulations shall be so drawn as not to provide a monopoly of one (1) type of equipment but shall provide approval of at least two (2) different brands of competitive equipment.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8258-05; Laws, 1960, ch. 408, § 5; Laws, 1964, ch. 456; Laws, 1968, ch. 544, § 1; Laws, 1980, ch. 561, § 24, eff from and after July 2, 1980.