The National Institute of Transit and Terrestrial Transport (Intrant) is calling for interested parties to register their repair workshops on their website, so that they can be awarded the licensing contracts for vehicle inspections.
According to Law 63-17, Article 166, motor vehicles have to be inspected each year by Intrant to receive the new Technical Vehicle Inspection Sticker. Vehicles of less than three years would be exempt from the inspection.
Intrant director, Franchesca de los Santos, said in November 2017 that the inspection program would be introduced in 2018.
In addition, according to Article 41 of the law, those vehicles that carry members of the public will not only have to have the technical vehicle inspection but cannot be older than the following:
Light vehicles for up to four passengers; 15 years old.
Micro buses for five to 20 passengers, 17 years old.
Minibuses for 21 to 36 passengers, 20 years old.
Autobuses for 37 passengers and above, 25 years old.
Heavy cargo vehicles, 30 years old.
Single passenger motorcycles, 10 years old.
Vehicles older than this will not be able to obtain a technical vehicle inspection sticker, nor will they be able to transport passengers.
Those vehicles that do not have the inspection sticker will be fined one minimum salary and the appropriate points on their license.
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Diario Libre
17 January 2018
