[DeTomaso] LPC - Roadside smog dynamometer

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

No sure about California laws with regard to smog compliance, but
elsewhere, unless they were stopping everybody ( like a roadblock dui
checkpoint ) or unless the vehicle was displaying an illegal condition, or
it had an outstanding warrant / bolo for it or the driver, it would be
totally illegal to randomly stop it and search it, much less test it.
Who knows what rights you sign away when you get CA plates?

Michael Shortt
On Mar 13, 2013 6:06 AM, "Guido deTomaso" <guido_detomaso at prodigy.net>
wrote:

> Tuesday I spotted a pickup on a roadside dyno, on a four lane surface
> street
> near a freeway exit.  Since the men with guns making it happen were CHP,
> I'm
> guessing they were plucking hapless saps off the freeway and stealing first
> their time and possibly second their vehicles.
>
> Anyone have the skinny this, especially:
>
> What's the legal foundation for forcing participation?  Can a driver
> refuse,
> both to participate or if not, refuse to allow the "officers" inside the
> car /
> to operate the car?
>
> Can they force a pre '76 ( not in the current smog check ) off the road?
>
> 'Course they don't respond to home burglaries, vandalism, graffiti anymore.
>
> GD
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