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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:12:23 -0400
From: Paul Wilson <dcmcrider@XXXXXX>
To: "W.S." <mobacc@XXXXXX>
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Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] New adventures with the old DC DMV

I got my "perpetual" sticker for the SV back in March. No fuss, no muss. No
appointment. The "greeters" saw me coming on a motorcycle and just told me
to park on the street. After a few minutes, one of the workers appeared to
ask for my registration card. He disappeared for a minute or two, then came
back with a sticker (the same ones they put on new cages) and a receipt.
Outta there in about ten minutes. I'll worry about the renewal in 2016. :)

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:07 PM, W.S. <mobacc@XXXXXX> wrote:

> So, at last process, the steed's inspection is up in July.  It gets hot
> here
> in July.  Not a time to spend in lines or fretting.
>
> Of course, vehicle safety and emissions inspections have been up and down
> in
> the news since last fall.  And there was no inspection charge on my April
> registration.  So it sounds like no inspection action required.  Ahhh,
> careful, Grasshopper, this be DC DMV, eager for gotcha revenue.  DMV site
> info is a muddle between sticker requirements, emissions and safety
> inspections and little mc specific.  So I emailed the mayor's office
> mid-May.
>
> Cutting to pertinents, amid a bunch of phone calls (several calls returned
> -- it is election year after all) and much consternation and conflicting
> info:
>
> I recently got a DMV mailing containing an auto sticker wrapped in a blank
> sheet of paper with just an expiration year punched out.  (Comments were "a
> mistake", "sorry", "there should have been a letter" etc. ala BP spill.)
>
> On direction, I went to the Half St. *office* this morning, parking "across
> the street."  At the counter they wanted the sticker and registration
> (plate
> no. sufficing (I had to duck out to confirm)).  Finally, a clerk and I went
> out to the bike (they have to see the bike) and he was askew about where to
> put the new '16 sticker since he couldn't remove the old '10 with his
> fingernail.  So 2 stickers now reside on the bike, right and left fork
> tubes.
>
> A new "perpetual" sticker is yet due in the mail as apparently they are
> making system changes and, while inspections are not required, stickers
> are.
>
>
> My advice:  30 days before expiration, call 202 727 5450 for *motorcycle*
> inspection expiration procedures.  And wear battle armor.
>
> Hopefully YMMV.
>
> Bill S. / DC (on digest)
> '99 VN750 > Allergic to DMV engagement
> Green machines join the AMA.
>
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