Utah Code § 41-6a-1644

Diesel emissions program -- Implementation -- Monitoring -- Exemptions
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(1) The legislative body of each county required by the comprehensive plan for air pollution
control developed by the director of the Division of Air Quality in accordance with Subsection
19-2-107(2)(a)(i) to use an emissions opacity inspection and maintenance program for diesel-
powered motor vehicles shall:
(a) make regulations or ordinances to implement and enforce the requirement established by the
Air Quality Board;
(b) collect information about and monitor the program; and
(c) by August 1 of each year, supply written information to the Department of Environmental
Quality to identify program status.
(2) The following vehicles are exempt from an emissions opacity inspection and maintenance
program for diesel-powered motor vehicles established by a legislative body of a county under
Subsection (1):
(a) an implement of husbandry; and
(b) a motor vehicle that:
(i) meets the definition of a farm truck under Section 41-1a-102; and
(ii) has a gross vehicle weight rating of 12,001 pounds or more.
(3)
(a) The legislative body of a county identified in Subsection (1) shall exempt a pickup truck, as
defined in Section 41-1a-102, with a gross vehicle weight rating of 12,000 pounds or less from
the emissions opacity inspection and maintenance program requirements of this section, if
the registered owner of the pickup truck provides a signed statement to the legislative body
stating the truck is used:
(i) by the owner or operator of a farm located on property that qualifies as land in agricultural
use under Sections 59-2-502 and 59-2-503; and
(ii) exclusively for the following purposes in operating the farm:
(A) for the transportation of farm products, including livestock and its products, poultry and its
products, and floricultural and horticultural products; and
(B) for the transportation of farm supplies, including tile, fence, and every other thing or
commodity used in agricultural, floricultural, horticultural, livestock, and poultry production
and maintenance.
(b) The county shall provide to the registered owner who signs and submits a signed statement
under this section a certificate of exemption from emissions opacity inspection and
maintenance program requirements for purposes of registering the exempt vehicle.

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