Traffic police officer has the right to verify the inspection of the car even when the presentation of the diagnostic card, if you show the car to malfunction. On this January 24 have the deputy head of main department of the Russian Interior Ministry Traffic Safety Police Major General Vladimir Kuzin.
He spoke about this during a briefing on the topic “On the procedure for passing a technical inspection of vehicles and responsibility for driving a vehicle without a diagnostic card” at the Izvestia press center.
“He can check only when he visually sees with his own eyes that he doesn’t have, say, bolts on the wheels, the cardan is lying around at the back. In such situations, he can check it,” Kuzin emphasized.
If there is no diagnostic card, the inspector should conduct a check based on available capabilities. In particular, he can check the vehicle visually or with the help of mobile laboratories.
The major general of the police also answered a journalist’s question about what the inspector would do if the driver was transporting family or friends.
“To quote the norm of law that the motor-car or money used for personal purposes only. Transportation of relatives, families is all for personal purposes, there are no questions,” he added.
At the same time with the March 1, 2022 in Russia will be put in a fine of 2 thousand. Rubles for driving without a diagnostic map of passing inspection. This will only affect those vehicles for which the procedure will remain mandatory.
Kuzin recalled that, according to the new law, vehicles owned by individuals do not need to go through the technical inspection procedure. The exception is those cases when changes were made to the design of the vehicle or the car was produced more than four years ago.
On December 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the corresponding law. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin noted that motorists themselves monitor their own safety, so it would be right to give them the opportunity to personally control the condition of their car.
As Pavel Sigal, first vice president of Opora Rossii, pointed out in an interview with Izvestia, the law can help millions of car drivers. According to the expert, the adoption of the law will save the family budget and time.
Source: IZ
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