Automobile Inspection?

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but after you ship a car to the VI, you CANNOT drive it without VI plates. There are no cars here with Kentucky, Illinois, etc. plates. Search this site for detailed instructions about car registration. Instructiojns are also in the Settler's Handbook.

Good Luck.

I wasn't referring to licensing & registering a shipped vehicle. I am referring to the windsheild sticker that shows the expiration month of a VI registered vehicle I may have been wrongly assuming that the windsheild sticker is both the Inspection sticker & registration sticker....sorry)

In every state that I know of there is a 15 day grace period after the month in which the sticker expires (although in those states the sticker is on the license plate)

So, if your windsheild sticker says "3" for March it expires on March 31st.

Question: Do you have until April 15th to get the new sticker?

Gotcha! Finally I understand the question and the answer is -- I don't know. Sorry.

No grace period. "3-04" will get you a ticket 4-1-04. If the DMV is unable to do the inspection, you still have to get some sort of okay so that when you get stopped you have proof you tried.

Thanks EastEnder!
So is the windsheild sticker a combo of the current registration as well as inspection? Or is the vehicle inspection not yearly (considering some of the cars I've seen on Island I wonder how those certain vehicles could have passed any safety inspection!) I hear that there is a person who sells the windshelid stickers under the table so-to-speak....must be part of the VI gov't corruption I read about, eh? Also hear that drivers license can be bougfht.

Hello Parrothead,

The windshield sticker is in fact a representation that your car was insected, passed and was registered.

In order to register (which is yearly) you have to first have the car inspected so yes car insepction is yearly and is done as the first step of registration. Brand new cars for I think 2 years did not need the inspection part since the car is new but I think this has changed and all cars must be inspected regardless of being brand new or used.

On St. Thomas - The insecption "lane" is right behind DMV you just drive up they check the car out for various things and sign/stamp your old registration form. You take the signed/stamped registration from inside the DMV and they check for tickets and then make you up a new registration form you pay and they give you a new sticker and form for one year.

Now I belive the DMV is still not in operation (as of the flooding last year), last time I asked an officier they said it should open this week, this week being the one that ended yesterday in terms of gov't work week. So you should call the last week of February and see if they are open yet. If they still are not I think the procedure is that you have to still get inspected between the first and last of the month your sticker is for - they will sign your old form so if you get stopped you have proof that you at least did that part. If they are open then you inspect and do the new form/new sticker deal.

Yes there are people who "do the inspection for you" for a fee; and as long as there are people willing to pay to not be inconvienced the under the table service will continue. And how I see it if you are paying someone to be unfriendly and/or difficult why would they stop. Its a cycle. The old beat up cars likely are an under the table inspection.

Good luck with your car inspection.

--Islander

P.S. You have to show your driver's license at inspection. If it is not a V.I. license, you are liable for a ticket...