Turns out there is an affadavit required for this type of situation: car registered in emissions county/but being used in non emissions. No one I talked to at several inspection places seemed to know what the heck I was talking about.
My local tax assessor’s office was iffy about it too. Sorry for my error in the original post: assessor not accessor! So after getting non answers from my local office; they even went as far as telling me I needed to speak with DPS (hoping this is not the case, bc it is impossible to speak to them by phone), I spoke to the very helpful folks at Potranco Automotive in San Antonio.
Gary the manager said they deal with this all the time with students and military. Apparently when they go to do the inspection of a car from another county/or I suppose one that is from one that does require an emissions test they get a “red flag” and the affadavit is generated on the bottom of the inspection sheet.
I am not sure if I put that correctly, but I was just so relieved I finally spoke to someone who seemed to understand my dilemma! So I sent my daughter to them and she now has the passed inspection paper w/affadavit noted.
I’ll go to the office tomorrow and see what happens. The inspection took a few minutes and the tax assessors office is practically in my neighborhood, so hope this is all it takes!
And It’s my understanding that there is no need to reregister a student’s car in the University’s county, bc it is fine for them to keep their home address as their permanent address. That goes for driver’s license and car insurance.
My daughter sent a photo copy of the inspection and it reads: affadavit type: not operated in
county.
The Texas Commision on Environmental Quality states: The TCEQ, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV), is authorized to deny a vehicle’s registration renewal if the vehicle had not passed its annual emissions inspection and has not complied with the program requirements. The following items may be presented at the time of renewal to show the vehicle has met emissions inspection requirements:
Exemption Affidavit (formally identified as a Texas Department of Public Safety Form VIE-12): An owner of a vehicle registered in Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, El Paso, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis, and Williamson Counties may have a vehicle safety inspection performed in a county where the emissions inspection is not required if one of the following conditions is true:
the vehicle will not be primarily operated (driven, parked, or stored less than 60 days per year) in one of the affected counties listed above (examples: certain company fleet vehicles, hunting vehicles);
the vehicle will no longer be primarily operated for 60 calendar days per inspection cycle in one of the counties listed above (example: someone who moved from an affected county);
the vehicle will not return to an affected county prior to the expiration of the current vehicle registration sticker (example: student, vacationer, extended out-of-town business); or
the vehicle is inoperable and will not be operated in an affected county.
The owner of the vehicle must complete the affidavit process for the vehicle emissions inspection exemption at the inspection station performing the annual vehicle safety inspection and the affidavit notation must be printed on the vehicle inspection report.
The above makes me wonder if we will need to produce form VIE-12. Yikes! I sure hope not.
So I am about to find out tomorrow if this will suffice.
If I don’t report back it means that it all went well ?
Also, can replies to our queries on here be sent to our email? I always have to go back and search for replies. Thanks to all who answered & if this works out, hope it will be of help to others with same issue.