This is chump change to this guy. he's made a mint and his wife is worth at least 45 million accoring to Forbes. California is such a state of pu$$ies. I'd like for someone to go shake this guy down for money and see how they do:
Posted on 02/11/2007 12:32:16 PM PST by shoptalk
The California Air Resources Board announced last month that it had fined Jesse James of West Coast Choppers and the former host of the television show “Monster Garage” for selling motorcycles between 1998 and 2005 that did not meet the state’s emissions laws. The agency said it reached a settlement with Mr. James for $271,250 for selling more than 50 new or custom-built motorcycles that did not meet the standards. Jerry Martin, communications director of the board, said in a telephone interview that the agency did not consider the fine excessive. “It’s an average fine for a motor vehicles certification violation,” he said “In fact, the amount may even be small.”
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He's been knowingly doing it since 1998?
California’s Clean-Air Cops are "DEE-TE-DEE!"
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I will never, EVER understand why Sandra Bullock married Jesse instead of Matthew McConaughey.
He probably sold many of the 50 bikes for close to 200,000.
Isn't this guy a raging liberal? Think he'll figure out who's sticking it to him?
I didn't even know that motorcycles had emissions standards.
Thank God this awful criminal has received a severe punishment. I'll sleep much better tonight knowing Big Brother is looking out for poor little 'ol me.
On the serious side, maybe he can get a glimpse of life as a California gun owner.
Pure undiluted ignorance of reality fueled by a high emission arrogance.
I totally agree! She lost it when she did that!
All I know is what I see on the screen (small and big), but Jesse comes across as rather shy, single-minded in purpose, and playfully immature.
What makes you think Sandra's any different?
I have never encountered a more Stalinist bunch of bureaucrats than those at CARB.
Never.
This is chump change to this guy. he's made a mint and his wife is worth at least 45 million accoring to Forbes. California is such a state of pu$$ies. I'd like for someone to go shake this guy down for money and see how they do:
waaaay old story - like 2 weeks ago.
Despite all those Draconian laws they are still the worst. Why? Are their ways of measuring tainted in order to keep making more laws and raising more money through fines, etc.?
Mr. James, who is married to the actress Sandra Bullock, said he was informed of the noncompliance in 2005 by an air board representative who came to his office and told him the registrations of all motorcycles he manufactured since 1998 had been revoked. Mr. James said that he thought he had complied with all the agency’s rules. “Everything I always thought I had to do I have done,” he said.
Mr. James said that seven years ago the agency changed its rules, making them stricter, but never told him about the change until he was cited. Mr. Martin said it was up to manufacturers to be aware of the law.
Passing rules retroactively is probably unconstitutional but since they allowed Bill Clinton to pass taxes retroactively I guess the law is honored in its breach.
“There was no notification because none was required,” he said. Mr. Martin said the board began investigating Mr. James “because of some complaints,” but he would not say from whom. Mr. Martin also said the agency conducted “routine inspections of bike shops, repair shops, etc.” But he said he was not aware of any prior inspections, routine or otherwise, of West Coast Choppers.
Typical bureaucrat with a beef who makes laws on his own and harasses whomever he pleases.
The settlement, however, does not require Mr. James or the owners of the bikes to bring them into compliance or take them off the road. Mr. Martin said now that the fine had been paid, the registrations of the bikes had been reinstated. He said the money goes into a fund to fix other pollution problems.
Obviously it is all about the money, not common sense. Can they now fine each biker every time he rides the bike??
If your vehicle is made before about 1977, in CA, you don't have to worry about smog, your '61 panhead would be perfectly legal as it is. Just license it and get out on the road!
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