BATON ROUGE – Residents in East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Ascension, Iberville and Livingston parishes will still be required to receive federal vehicle emissions testing despite the elimination of the state vehicle inspection sticker.
Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law in June that will replace the state vehicle inspection sticker with a $6 QR code starting at the beginning of next year.
After Landry signed the bill, many residents began to wonder if emissions testing would be required. The federal emissions test has been a requirement for 33 years and costs an additional $8…