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feuerwehrmann t1_j3li7jd wrote

You have to have an address in the other county. A PO box in said other county may work.

I thought all counties now had emissions

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discogeek t1_j3lkuxq wrote

You can use a PO box as a secondary / mailing address for PennDOT, but you have to have a physical address as your main one.

Your residential address is also used for various things like voter registration, jury duty, county residency. So if you use a "fake" address in another county, you're not only breaking the law, but you're also setting yourself up for lots of unforeseen problems.

https://www.dmv.pa.gov/Pages/FAQ%20Pages/Address-Requirements-FAQ.aspx

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Dispatcher12 t1_j3lsw6a wrote

Nope. None of the Northern Tier counties do, nor a lot in the middle. When my sister borrowed my grandmother's car while she went to Susquehanna University she had to bring it down to Delco for an emissions test.

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[deleted] t1_j3lzzb8 wrote

Many of the larger chain garages in tioga county can do emissions like bastians and Steve Shannon’s.

In addition, Lycoming county requires emissions, it could have been done there.

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Dispatcher12 t1_j3m636j wrote

I don't think she knew that at the time. When she was in school it was Pittsburgh and surrounding and Philadelphia and surrounding. It was a while ago. She lives in Ohio now.

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LilDutchy t1_j3lmjlf wrote

The Skook still doesn’t.

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crankshaft123 t1_j3m04rh wrote

42 of the 67 counties in the state have no emissions inspection.

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feuerwehrmann t1_j3mm3fu wrote

I'm surprised I thought that was made universal.

Who remembers the state owned garage that you had to go to do get your emissions test done. That sucked

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crankshaft123 t1_j3mq6pt wrote

Not universal. Counties that the EPA designates at "non-attainment" or "severe non-attainment" areas require testing. Others don't.

>Who remembers the state owned garage that you had to go to do get your emissions test done.

Did you ever actually go to one? Where was it? The legislature pulled the plug on them before the State Testing Center was open to the public in the Philly suburbs. I never knew that one was fully operational before the legislature pulled the plug on that deal.

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feuerwehrmann t1_j3n1lk2 wrote

Pittsburgh area has them in the late 90s. They lasted a year or so

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crankshaft123 t1_j3n3fej wrote

Thanks. Is the building still there?

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feuerwehrmann t1_j3n8ueq wrote

Been a while since I've been back. I think it is a midas or another muffler shop now

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Allemaengel t1_j3ltqfv wrote

Neither Carbon or Monroe here in the Poconos do either.

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tr3vw t1_j3mwgvy wrote

Should just be a national system that you have to get it done every five years or something. Most PA counties are way too strict when you have other states and counties that will let you put anything that moves on the road.

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Allemaengel t1_j3n2n2b wrote

It's the state being strict, counties themselves aren't involved.

The state requires vehicle owners residing in counties over a certain population threshold to have emissions inspections.

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tr3vw t1_j3o5plu wrote

Gotchya. I had no idea thats how it worked!

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crankshaft123 t1_j3o8i7f wrote

The state is trying to comply with US EPA regulations.

If the US EPA (the feds) designate a county as a "non attainment" or "severe non-attainment" area, that county is subject to emissions inspection. It's not directly tied to population-the feds don't mandate that all counties with X number or more population get emissions inspection, but higher populations generally go hand in hand with more cars and more pollution, so it works out that way.

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