It is true. Because you shouldn’t even be required to do so. And there are plenty of places that nickel and dime every repair they can find a way to.
This is some kind of retarded hold over from the 1930s when people came to town with homemade kerosene headlamps on their flatbed Model-T.
Texas vehicle inspections are an artifact of the Texas mentality that there isn’t ANYTHING that can’t use a little more regulation and organizing. They come at it from a different direction than California, but the end result is close to the same.
There is a board, a commission, a law with 63 subsections, and a lobby for anything you can imagine. Texas benefits from it’s Germanic heritage when you are speaking beer, sausages, chicken fried steak, etc. But not so much when they ape the Prussian bureaucracy.
They are stealing 35 bucks from you every year.
I am not opposed to the $25-35 safety inspection fee. What I am opposed to is the $75 registration renewal every year. That is theft. It serves no purpose other than to raise revenue.