NewsWhore
09-11-2006, 10:10 PM
No governmental figure has explained just how the Chamber of Deputies took up the contract that would assign all vehicular inspections to a private Spanish firm (ICASUR), especially after President Fernandez asked that the contract be dropped. In September 2005, the President returned the contract to the legislature and asked for it to be revised "in order to improve the terms being offered for the public service". Nonetheless, the contract has not been revised and still contains the clauses that led to its withdrawal from the Chamber of Deputies. One of the clauses imposes a condition on the Internal Revenue Department, stating that the issue of new license plates would be denied if a vehicle did not have the inspection stickers up to date. The government is also under the obligation to write such legislation that will establish the obligatory nature of the inspection process. The contract also violates article 110 of Law 241 which governs all ground transportation in the DR. The article establishes the Director General of Ground Transport as the sole provider of vehicular inspections.
Locally, the car inspection "revista" sticker is regarded as another governmental tax. The tax is readily sold without inspections, and thousands of cars that would not pass inspections, circulate with the stickers.
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Locally, the car inspection "revista" sticker is regarded as another governmental tax. The tax is readily sold without inspections, and thousands of cars that would not pass inspections, circulate with the stickers.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)