Sec. 382.216.  INCENTIVES FOR VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION IN VEHICLE EMISSIONS INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE PROGRAM.  The commission, the Texas Department of Transportation, and the Public Safety Commission may, subject to federal limitations:
(1)  encourage counties likely to exceed federal clean air standards to implement voluntary:
(A)  motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance programs;  and
(B)  low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement programs;
(2)  establish incentives for counties to voluntarily implement motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance programs and low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement programs;  and
(3)  designate a county that voluntarily implements a motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program or a low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement program as a "Clean Air County" and give preference to a county designated as a Clean Air County in any federal or state clean air grant program.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1075, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.