Inspection Stations

(a)For the purpose of making inspections and issuing official certificates of safety inspection and approval, the Director of Revenue and Taxation shall establish or authorize such permanent or temporary official inspection stations, either commercial or operated by the Government, as he may find necessary and suitable for such purposes and shall publicize the location of all such official inspection stations and the times when inspections may be made, provided, however, that if there are at least three

(3)commercially operated official vehicle inspection stations authorized by the Director of Revenue and Taxation and operating in a continuous and permanent manner, the Director of Revenue and Taxation may order the closure of all vehicle inspection stations operated by the government of Guam.

(b)The Director of Revenue and Taxation shall not issue authorization for an official vehicle inspection station unless the following equipment is present and operating on the inspection premises:

(1)wheel alignment gauge or testing machine;

(2)brake tester;

(3)headlight testing machine; and CH. 3 GENERAL PROVISIONS

(4)any other equipment found necessary by the Director of Revenue and Taxation.

(c)The Director of Revenue and Taxation shall not issue authorization for an official vehicle inspection station to any business organization primarily involved in the selling of new or used vehicles, nor shall the Director issue such authorization to any business involved in renting vehicles.

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(1)The Director shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations in accordance with Administrative Adjudication Act to carry out the provisions of this Act.

(2)By regulation, the Director shall require each government or commercial inspection station to post in a prominent place the minimum standards for passing each of the tests in the safety inspection; such standards shall be established by the Director.

(3)By regulation, the Director shall require written disclosure to the customer of the reasons for denial of a safety inspection by either a government or a commercial inspection station.

(e)The Director may suspend or revoke the authorization of any official inspection station for violation of any established rules and regulation or any provision of this Act.