RITEVE Looking To Double Its Inspection Fees
November 27th, 2009 | by admin |The mandatory vehicular inspection could cost double next year if the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP) approves a request by the Revisión Técnica Vehicular (RITEVE).
The RITEVE proposal asks the government regulator to increase the current fee of ¢9.930 colones for passenger vehicles to ¢19.870, taxis fees from the current ¢10.714 to ¢21.445, motos from ¢6.541 to ¢13.090 and heavy vehicles - trucks and buses - from ¢13.076 to ¢26.180.
The ARESEP confirmed that it received the fee hike request on November 13 and is still in the process of admission. Not all changes submitted to the ARESEP are automatically accepted and sent to a study and public hearing.
RITEVE says it needs the increase to continue to operate and that since beginning operations it has upped its fees only one time, in 2005.
All vehicles must be submitted for inspection on annual basis (taxis and buses twice yearly) under a mandatory inspection program under the guidelines of the ministerio de Obras Públicas y Tránsportes (MOPT).
RITEVE operates a series of inspection stations across the country.
