<p>If your child takes a car to a far-away OOS school, what are you supposed to do about annual state inspection/emissions inspection? Can they be done in another state?</p>
<p>In our home state, we just have to show proof of attendance at the out of state school and get a waiver. When the car comes back into the state, you get the tests done.</p>
<p>^^^Same with my state, although some states do provide locations of OOS emissions inspection stations if they require them even though the cars are OOS.</p>
<p>Since every state does their registrations and inspections differently, I wonder if it would be worth exploring the option of registering the car in the college state? For instance, in PA, an inspection is required every year as is renewing registration but some states only do both every five years. Of course, then you would also have to go with that states insurance policies too but maybe it’s worth looking at.</p>
<p>Same with our state. You also need to check with the state where the car is located to see when the student may need to register the car in-state to avoid a heavy penalty. In CA, if the car is registered to the student, they have to do everything required within a fairly strict time limit or face a large fine. If you keep the car in YOUR name, likely the insurance also needs to be kept in YOUR name, which means any accidents will affect YOUR policy too.</p>
<p>Check with both YOUR department of motor vehicles, as well as the student’s for more details.</p>
<p>I live in MA and many people, not just kids, don’t register their cars here. If they have an accident, the insurer will not cover. If they get caught, they get fined. The police here don’t enforce much unless you get arrested. So the “right” thing to do is register but people don’t to save money.</p>
<p>Any “savings” would be overwhelmed by the HUGE COST if there is any accident and no insurance coverage because someone was trying to “save” a few $$. We insisted S switch ownership & insurance so that if the worst happened, he would be covered. Insurance is supposed to be there to protect you, but if you aren’t following the rules, don’t expect much (if any) protectoin down the road.</p>
<p>We had this situation with my D having a car we owned out of state. Our state (WA) has a form that has to filled out and then notarized in the other state. That way WA knows the car is really in the other state. Then we could renew without the emissions test. If the car is returned to WA, you then have to get the test.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses - I guess I’ll call the DMV and find out what our state requires.</p>
<p>S2 took a car which is still registered in our home state. While we don’t live in an urban area, we live in a state that is thought to be relatively “urban.” The increase in his insurance premium for the new state was more than the total of insuring 3 cars where we live now. The agent actually called to run the new premium by us before he wrote the change in the policy.</p>