{"data":{"id":"us-ca/veh-27158.1","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"VEH § 27158.1","heading":"","body":"(a) Commencing one year after the effective date of a regulation implementing the Heavy-Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Program (Chapter 5.5 (commencing with Section 44150) of Part 5 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code), a legal owner or registered owner of a nongasoline heavy-duty onroad motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 14,000 pounds shall maintain a Heavy-Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Compliance Certificate, as described in Section 44152 of the Health and Safety Code, or a facsimile or electronic copy of that certificate of compliance, with the vehicle for which the certificate is issued.\n(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply when a Heavy-Duty Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Compliance Certificate is necessarily removed from the vehicle for the purpose of renewal or when the vehicle is left unattended.\n(c) A violation of this section shall be cited in accordance with Section 40610.","path":["Vehicle Code - VEH","DIVISION 12. EQUIPMENT OF VEHICLES [24000. - 28246.]","CHAPTER 5. Other Equipment [27000. - 28160.]","ARTICLE 2. Exhaust Systems [27150. - 27159.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"ffc7e7a9162faaae21f1b39625a5cdb47e4f1c21ede386d90ac96940277ff0e1","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/veh-27158","next":"us-ca/veh-27158.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}