NCADA would like to thank all of the attendees and the sponsor's who helped make this a very successful convention! If you have any suggestions for next year's convention June 14-17, 2009 in Asheville, NC, we encourage you to fill out the evaluation form and fax back to (919) 829-9525 by July 11th. You may find the evaluation form by clicking here.

Should you have any questions regarding past or future conventions, please contact Diane Turner in the NCADA office at (800) 264-6223.

The Division of Motor Vehicles is in the process of announcing mandatory training meetings for all licensed vehicle safety inspections stations to address the transition to an electronic inspections process. Throughout the month of April, DMV will be sending information to inspections stations in ìsafety inspection onlyî counties regarding these meetings which will begin in May. Training for inspections station personnel in emissions counties will be announced and held later this year.

All licensed safety inspection stations are required to have station managers or owners attend a meeting about the new program in order to continue to be licensed after October 1, 2008. While other personnel are certainly welcome to attend, at least one representative of an inspection station must attend and the person must have the ability to make legal decisions for the station and establish payment methods for the electronic sticker program.

This new program is the result of legislation enacted during the 2007 legislative session. Essentially, the program will directly tie vehicle inspection dates to the date of vehicle registration and registration renewal. Also, the program will eliminate ìinspections stickersî and information regarding vehicle inspections will be transferred by inspections stations to DMV through electronic means. Safety inspections stations will be required to have equipment and software in order to electronically transfer data. However, pursuant to provisions in the legislation which were advocated by NCADA, the stateís vendor providing the communications service will be providing the necessary equipment and software at no cost to a safety inspections station which is licensed on October 1, 2008. Emissions county inspection stations will be able to utilize existing equipment to electronically transfer inspections information to DMV.

DMV and interested stakeholders, including NCADA, are holding meetings to discuss actual implementation issues for this new program before the October 1, 2008 implementation date. NCADA will be providing you with more information on the details of this program as this work continues. Also, an overview of this legislation was included in NCADAís 2007 Legislative Summary and Review. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact John Policastro at 800-264-6223.

A copy of the DMV memo you should be receiving regarding the mandatory training, as well as a listing of the upcoming training meetings which are being held in May and June can be found by clicking here. The information you receive from DMV should include an enrollment form and instructions for registering for one of these meeting.

PLEASE REVIEW THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY AS SOME GUIDANCE REVERSES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY DMV.

DMV has issued a revised Form MVR-615 which must now be completed by all vehicle owners submitting a title and registration application in North Carolina. The most significant change, beyond the new form, is that the form will now be required for all vehicle title and registration applications. Previous guidance from DMV instructed that the form was only required for non-fleet private passenger vehicles.

DMV has also issued a new form, Form MVR-615A. This form includes the definitions of an eligible risk for both non-fleet private passenger vehicle owners and owners of vehicles other than non-fleet private passenger vehicles. The vehicle owner must refer to the definitions on the MVR-615A to determine if one or more of the definitions apply to the owner. The vehicle owner then must list the corresponding number or numbers from Form MVR-615A which are applicable to that vehicle owner.

A complete NCADA Dealer Alert on this matter is available by clicking here. A copy of the revised Form MVR-615 and the new Form MVR-615A are available by clicking here.

Further, the forms may be ordered from NCADA Services. NCADA Services plans to provide these forms in notepad style with both of the forms included on one double-sided page

Please contact John Policastro at 800-264-6223 with any questions.