photo courtesy of Louisiana State Police
The elimination of state inspection stickers doesn’t officially happen until January 1st; but for all intents and purposes, your days of schlepping to get your vehicle inspected are over. Governor Landry has told State Police not to issue citations for expired inspection stickers. And Larry Bagley, who authored House Bill 1085, says even if your inspection is due for renewal this month, just let it go.
“They would have to buy a year or two-year sticker for a month; because in a month, it will all be gone. And the Governor has said, publicly, that there will be a moratorium on all that,” Bagley explained.
Bagley says if you recently paid for your two-year renewal already, however, you’re out of luck.
“I had a guy yesterday call me and wanted a refund. He said he had used a year out of two years. He wanted to know when we were going to pay him back. I said, ‘I did the same thing, but I don’t think you’re going to get a refund,'” Bagley said.
Bagley says among the practical reasons to eliminate the inspection sticker is to put certain counterfeiters out of business.
“The State Police testified that they lost between $5-$6 million yearly on fake inspection stickers, especially in certain parts of the state where they’re going in a Walmart parking lot and hawking them in the parking lot,” Bagley said.
The inspection sticker will be replaced by a QR code that will cost $6 a year, which will be rolled into your annual registration renewal – it’s not paid separately. The QR code will arrive in the mail; it measures about two inches long by one inch tall and will be affixed to the bottom of the passenger side of the windshield.
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