Section 20. Applicability

A. This chapter shall:

1. Be enforced only at the commencement of the control period that begins at least 180 days after notice by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services (commissioner) appears in The Virginia Register of Regulations, which notice shall state that the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (director) has informed the commissioner that (because the air quality standard for carbon monoxide has been exceeded two or more times in a calendar year at any one of the air quality monitoring stations in the Metropolitan Washington, D.C.-Virginia-Maryland Statistical Area) the maintenance plan for the Northern Virginia area requires the enforcement of this chapter; and

2. Cease to be enforced when the conditions of subdivision A 1 of this section have occurred and the commissioner receives written notice from the director that enforcement of this chapter is no longer required to satisfy the maintenance plan. The commissioner shall publish this written notice in the Virginia Register of Regulations.

B. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to any person who sells or transfers any batch of gasoline for use in aircraft.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR115-04-28 § 2, eff. November 1, 1993; amended, Volume 13, Issue 05, eff. November 1, 1996.

Statutory Authority

§ 59.1-156 of the Code of Virginia.