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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="23-105" title_number="23" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Inspection of Used Vehicles and Warnings for Defective Equipment" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a police officer observes that a vehicle registered in this State is being operated with any equipment that apparently does not meet the standards established under this subtitle or the standards established under § 24-106.1(e) of this article, the officer shall stop the driver of the vehicle and issue to him a safety equipment repair order.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A police officer may issue a safety equipment repair order for a cover required under § 24-106.1(e) of this article only if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The vehicle is equipped with a cover; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The cover, or any equipment necessary to properly secure the cover, does not meet the standards established under § 24-106.1(e) of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The safety equipment repair order shall direct the owner of the vehicle:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To have the equipment corrected as necessary at a place of the owner’s choosing within 10 days from the issuance of the order; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>To send to the Division a repair order certification dated subsequent to the issuance of the order.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If a safety equipment repair order is for equipment that can be certified as corrected or adequate by visual inspection and without the use of testing equipment, any police department that issues safety equipment repair orders and repair order certifications shall, on request of the owner:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Visually inspect the vehicle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the equipment meets or exceeds the standards established under this subtitle, issue a repair order certification.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Division shall determine the equipment that may be inspected visually under this subsection and shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out its provisions.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Division shall prepare and provide safety equipment repair order forms and repair order certification forms.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In cooperation with the Administration, the Division shall adopt rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The rules or regulations shall provide for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Suspending the registration of any vehicle for which a safety equipment repair order has been issued, on failure to comply with the order within 30 days after its issuance; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Reinstating the suspended registration, on receipt of satisfactory evidence that the equipment has been corrected or that the equipment meets or exceeds the standards established under this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>This section does not limit or supersede any other provision of law concerning vehicle equipment or the means of enforcing the laws relating to that equipment.</text>
  </level>
</section>
