Change to Massachusetts Motor Vehicle Inspection Eliminates Sticker Hack

A change is coming to Massachusetts motorcar inspection sticker guidelines, and it corrects a longtime “hack” that many Commonwealth drivers have employed for years.

State Consultant Pat Haddad (D-Somerset) introduced on her official Fb web page Thursday that “beginning November 1, automobiles passing inspection will get a brand new sticker with the month the final sticker expired, legitimate for one 12 months.”

Which means the follow of ready till the beginning of the subsequent month in an effort to get a “bonus” month will not be in play. Beforehand, in case your sticker expired, say, the final day of January, you possibly can wait till February 1 to get an inspection in an effort to acquire an additional month earlier than it needs to be renewed.

Now, this new rule means in case your sticker expired in January, you get a sticker that expires the next January, regardless of while you get the inspection accomplished.

There may be an exception, apparently. In case you are greater than a 12 months late, you’ll robotically get a sticker that expires in January, not the month during which the inspection happens.

“Any automobile proprietor late in getting a automobile inspected, past one 12 months from the final inspection, will not get a sticker displaying the month the brand new inspection occurred,” Haddad posted. “Autos with inspection stickers that expired final 12 months will obtain a January sticker of the present 12 months the automobile is being inspected, regardless of the month the automobile is inspected this 12 months.”

Haddad famous that the change “doesn’t influence the necessities for newly bought automobiles.”

“All newly bought automobiles have to be inspected inside seven days of the automobile registration date and can obtain a sticker of the month during which it was inspected and is legitimate for one 12 months,” she wrote.

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