PERIODIC INSPECTION MANUAL
VN-113 12/2019 MTC 9
2. School buses must be inspected three times yearly: between July/August,
November/December, and February/March. (23 V.S.A. § 1282)
3. Motor buses must be inspected twice yearly, at 6-month intervals. (23 V.S.A. § 1222)
Inspection Record: An inspection record includes the inspection certificate, information entered
into AVIP, and the Vehicle Inspection Report (VIR). (23 V.S.A.§ 1222)
Inspection Station License: The certificate of designation issued by the DMV to verify that the
facility is properly equipped and has adequate space and qualified personnel to conduct state
inspection of vehicles as stated on the certificate. The license must be conspicuously displayed at
the place for which it has been issued. It is valid only for the official inspection station in whose
name it has been issued and for transacting business only at the designated place. (23 V.S.A.§
1222)
Inspection Station Supervisor: Any person designated by the inspection station owner to
supervise/manage the operation of the respective inspection station.
Kit-Car: A vehicle with a commercially manufactured body and/or body and frame that may
resemble a regularly manufactured vehicle or whose body may be of a unique design but is
manufactured to fit on a commercially manufactured frame.
Motor Bus: Any motor vehicle with a seating capacity of more than seven persons, other than a
street car, operated upon the public streets and highways along a regular route and in such
operation receiving, discharging, and transporting passengers for hire. This does not apply to a
transportation service for which passengers determine the route and destination, nor does it apply
to cooperative-use transportation.
Motor-Driven Cycle: Any vehicle that is equipped with two or three wheels, a power source
providing up to a maximum of 2 brake horsepower and having a maximum piston or rotor
displacement of 50 cubic centimeters, if a combustion engine is used, which will propel the vehicle,
unassisted, at a speed not to exceed 30 MPH on a level road surface and that is equipped with a
power drive system that functions directly or automatically only, not requiring clutching or shifting
by the operator after the drive system is engaged. An electric personal assistive mobility device is
not a motor-driven cycle.
Motorcycle: Any motor-driven vehicle having a seat or saddle for the rider and designed to travel
on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, excluding motor-driven cycles, golf
carts, track-driven vehicles, tractors, electric personal assistive mobility devices, and vehicles on
which the operator and passengers ride within an enclosed cab.
Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV): A motor vehicle with motive power, except a trailer,
that is designed to carry 10 persons or fewer, and that is constructed either on a truck chassis or
with special features for occasional off-road operation.
Municipal Fleet Inspection Station: A municipality that has been designated as an official
municipal fleet inspection station, provided it has motor vehicles registered in the name of the
municipality and meets all the requirements for designation as an official inspection station.