Louisiana State Police, Transportation and Environmental Safety Section

Vehicle Inspection Station Permit

This is optional business a repair shop can choose to take on, not a condition of repairing vehicles at all. Twenty-five dollars a year covers the station permit itself, with a further $5 a year for every mechanic named on the application as an inspector. The statute goes out of its way to make a repair shop eligible: any motor vehicle repair or maintenance shop that either services ten or more licensed vehicles or otherwise satisfies the state police that it is properly equipped with competent personnel may request this designation. What the station may then charge a motorist for the inspection itself is set separately, at $10 for a one-year sticker or $20 for two years, with an extra $8 surcharge in parishes that also run emissions testing.