Ordinance Providing for the Inspection of Motor Vehicles

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FW to aid in the orderly presentation of motor vehicles for inspection, may mail notices to the owners of motor vehicles to present same for inspection at designated inspection stations and within the time allotted in such notice, or may give notice in any other form determined by the Board to the said owners of motor vehicles. The owner of each motor vehicle falling within the class herein specified shall present same for inspection by said Board at the time and place designated in any notice given by the Boards provided, however, that the failure to receive or observe notice shall not excuse any owner from presenting his respective motor vehicle for inspection within each six monthst period. The owner of any motor vehicle may present same for test to any authorized station for inspection at any time and without notice, and if the same shall be tested and a certificate of inspection shall be attached thereto, said owner shall not be required to present said motof vehicle for another test during said period, unless he receives specific notice that the same shall again be presented for reinspeotion. The presentation of a vehicle for inspection within any designated inspection period shall not excuse the presentation thereof for inspection during the next inspection period. Section 80 if, on inspection, any motor vehicle is found by test to meet the standards of safety fixed by lawful authority, said Board shall thereupon issue a certificate evidencing such successful passage of inspection and the date of such inspection, which certificate shall thereafter be visibly displayed at such place upon or in such motor vehicle as the same shall be attached by the inspector. So long as said motor vehicle shall be in service, it shall be unlawful to alter, remove, forge, imitate, deface, destroy, cover up or mutilate any such certficate, until said vehicle has again successfully passed inspection. In the event any authorized and issued certificate shall be lost, damaged or destroyed, the owner of said vehicle shall promptly return said vehicle to the station that issued said certificate, for a new test, and, if said motor vehicle shall again meet the requirements of this ordinance, the Board shall, without cost, issue a new certificate to said owner. If any motor vehicle shall fail to meet the standard of inspection established by law or ordinance, no certificate shall be issued therefor by the Board, but said Board shall issue to the person presenting said motor vehicle a statement of the