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IL: $99 annual renewal for standard plates. No "personal property tax." Emissions inspections required only in counties around Chicago & St. Louis; they are conducted by the IEPA at no charge to the car owner.
Emissions in CT is $20 and can be done at pretty much any mechanic or oil change shop. I'm not sure how the renewal works though because I randomly get the notice for it every so often for a car and it seems to have no pattern. It used to be yearly, then ten years for certain models, then two years for others, I don't know.
VA is $80-$90 per 2 years (no separate plate for commercial) for standard non-vanity plates. We can keep the old plate until it rusts away and is no longer readable.
Vermont registration renewal is $70.00 for one year, $129.00 for two.
No new plates required, you just get new stickers.
We do have mandatory inspection which is not set to coincide with the registration renewal, and inspections are done exclusively at private garages. The inspection doesn't cost much at most places, and a lot of places offer free inspection, but you almost have to assume that you're going to pay them to do something.
Original emissions test used to analyze (sniff) the exhaust gases (tailpipe test). Now they connect a computer to the car's OBD-II system and get a readout of any problems.
I always find the disparity in vanity plates amazing. In PA, you pay a $20 one-time additional fee the first year, which covers making the plate. That's it. After that, still just $36 each year to renew.
I paid more than $20 additional per year in WV when I had a vanity plate for a short time, and that was over 20 years ago!
$75/year is outrageous. Vanity indeed.
I think what some states realized is that if they have more reasonable fees for all types of special issue plates as well as vanity, they can more than make it up in volume.
Version 2 came out around 1996, so most 96-later cars have a plug you can scan for vehicle and emmissions faults. It's pretty standardized to all cars now.
Before that, there were some early diagnostics systems, but not as standardized. These cars usually got a sniffer test, but with few and fewer 1996-older cars on the road, my state wanted to save money and do away with the testing, so now they are exempt.
With the OBD2 cars, you pull the car in and they hook their computer up to it. If the check engine light is off, and a few specific emmisions monitoring devices read OK, the car passes.
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