Has the registration of HBO for cars been postponed at the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate?
The answer to the question of whether LPG registration is required with the traffic police in 2021 depends on the modification of the car. If its model involves the installation of a gas installation, and this is reflected in the car’s documents, then you do not need to obtain permission for installation.
As for whether registration of gas equipment is necessary for a car in Russia on which gas equipment was installed before 2015 (before the technical regulation of the Customs Union No. 018/2011 came into force), then registration is not necessary if the installation was carried out in accordance with legal norms , and there are documents confirming this.
Where to register
When registering, documents for HBO for traffic police in 2021 are provided to the department where the STS was issued and registration was carried out. When the driver presents all the necessary certificates and receipts, he will be given permission to install.
Attention! An alternative design option is the State Services portal. With its help, you can register online, significantly reducing the procedure time. This opportunity is relevant for users registered on the site. When using the Internet service, a discount on the fee is provided.
Clarifications on registering gas equipment with the traffic police
If the vehicle title does not indicate the possibility of installing LPG, registration is required. According to traffic regulations, driving a car with installed gas equipment, for which permission has not been obtained from the traffic police, is prohibited.
Changes have been made to the design of the vehicle without permission from the State Road Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation or other bodies determined by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Clause 7.18 Traffic Regulations.
The owner of the car is obliged to change the registration data on the car after installing the LPG within 10 days.
Owners of vehicles... are obliged to register them in the prescribed manner or change registration data during the validity period of the registration plate "TRANSIT" or within 10 days after the acquisition, customs clearance, deregistration of vehicles, replacement of license plate units or the occurrence of other circumstances requiring changes to registration data.
Clause 4 of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 1001.
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Penalty for lack of certificate
When driving a car with an unregistered HBO system, the driver will have to pay a fine. The amount of the penalty is 500 rubles. In addition, the vehicle owner is required to register gas equipment within 10 days. Punishment is also relevant for drivers who fail to carry out an LPG check in a timely manner. System diagnostics are required once every 2 years. To legally install gas equipment, the car owner must obtain the appropriate permit. A preliminary technical inspection of the vehicle is carried out, then you need to register with the traffic police. Only after this can you legally install HBO.
Procedure before installing gas equipment
Before you begin installing equipment on your vehicle, you must obtain permission to do so. The procedure for registering HBO with the traffic police in 2021 is as follows:
1Pass a preliminary technical examination.
Installation of gas equipment with registration in the traffic police requires two checks: before and after installation.
P. 75 ch. 4 Section V of the technical regulation of the Customs Union 018/2011 “On the safety of wheeled vehicles”
A preliminary check is necessary to make sure that a gas system can be installed on a given vehicle. A post-installation inspection is necessary to ensure that the vehicle complies with safety regulations.
The check is not mandatory for vehicles for which gas installation is provided by the manufacturer, in accordance with paragraph 77 of Chapter. 4 sections V of TR CU 018/2011.
2Obtain permission to install equipment from the traffic police.
Fill out an application for changes to the design of the vehicle using the form from Appendix No. 1 from the letter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated November 20, 2015 No. 13/5-8230.
Take with you an application and a preliminary conclusion about the possibility of installing the equipment and contact any technical supervision department of the traffic police.
Stages of legalization of HBO step by step
The legalization of gas equipment occurs in several stages.
- In accordance with changes in the rules for registering gas equipment in 2021, before proceeding with installation, it is required to obtain a preliminary technical examination of vehicles, which confirms the possibility of equipping the vehicle with gas equipment:
At this stage the following documentation will be required:
- passport of the vehicle owner;
- vehicle passport;
- registration certificate.
The required conclusion will be provided after an examination carried out in the laboratory.
- Now you need permission from the traffic police to allow you to install gas equipment.
You need to write an Application for the installation of gas equipment, for which contact the traffic police department, which has a technical supervision department. There, the employee will put a mark in the Application-Declaration, attaching photographs of vehicles whose design has not yet been changed by installing gas equipment.
- It is necessary to install gas equipment on vehicles. In the service, solving this problem can take from four hours to two days. The duration of the work depends on the power of the vehicle itself and the complexity of installing the device.
After installing the gas equipment, you will be provided with the documents required for subsequent registration, including forms 2a and 2b, which will definitely be requested when passing the technical inspection.
- Now you need to get a new diagnostic card. In accordance with the regulations that came into force in 2021, during the process of registering gas equipment, you will be required to again undergo a vehicle inspection, and the card must indicate that LPG has been installed.
The diagnostic card must be brought to a car service center, where they will prepare a technical examination report for you.
- To continue registering gas equipment, you need to again visit the same traffic police department where you were previously and provide the employee with an identification card of a citizen of the Russian Federation, as well as all the collected documentation and a vehicle with installed gas equipment.
After inspecting the car, it is registered with the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and a “Certificate of Compliance with the Design of the Vehicle” is issued indicating the changes made and the corresponding entry is made in the vehicle passport and the vehicle registration certificate.
Procedure after installing gas equipment
Once permission has been received from the traffic police, you can proceed with the actual installation:
1Install the gas equipment at a certified car service center and receive a conclusion, as well as copies of certificates for the installed equipment.
2Pass a structural safety inspection and receive a diagnostic card.
3Collect a package of documents and contact the traffic police to obtain a “Certificate of Compliance of the vehicle with changes made to its design.”
Registration of gas installation on a car with the traffic police is impossible without this certificate.
According to the letter of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia N 13/5-8230, to obtain a certificate you must provide:
1 Conclusion of preliminary technical inspection.
2 Statement-declaration from the installer.
3Inspection report on the safety of the structure after installing the gas equipment.
4Receipt for payment of state duty.
5STS, PTS, copies of certificates of conformity for equipment.
6Passport of the Russian Federation.
7Register the vehicle with the traffic police.
Registration of gas for cars in Russia with the State Traffic Inspectorate must be carried out within 10 days after installation of the equipment.
Is it possible to immediately register gas during installation?
Either the owner or his authorized representative must contact the traffic police. If you take a chance and write out a power of attorney for an employee of the organization that installed the gas equipment, he will visit the MREO (registration department) instead of you for a fee.
By the way, periodic testing of gas-cylinder equipment is mandatory, as stated in clause 9.8.3 of Appendix No. 8 of the CU TR. It is easier to carry them out where the HBO was installed. The frequency is set in the passport for HBO and the cylinder. Based on the test results, a certificate is issued, which is required when passing a technical inspection.
Converting a car to gas as a fuel is economically justified only when the car is used quite intensively. Installing a gas-cylinder LPG will not only require an investment of money, but will also lead to a waste of time and nerves, because, in addition to the installation of the LPG itself, it will need to be registered with the traffic police.
But the one who walks will master the road.
Registration of gas equipment with the State Traffic Inspectorate
Registration of a vehicle after installation of gas equipment is no different from the usual registration, which we described here.
When filling out an application for re-registration of a car, in the “Make changes in connection” block, underline the line “change in design”.
Also fill out the block “Changes made to the design of the vehicle.”
For information on where to download and how to fill out an application for registering a car, read the article “Documents for registering a car with the traffic police.” In the same material you will find a list of all necessary documents, to which, in the case of installing LPG, you must add a certificate of vehicle compliance with safety requirements.
Changes in the registration data of a vehicle associated with changes in the design of a registered vehicle are made on the basis of a certificate of compliance of the vehicle with the changes made to its design with safety requirements.
P. 59.1 Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated 08/07/2013 N 605.
Be sure to register your car after installing the gas installation. The court's decision to register an LPG with the traffic police will not side with the driver who made changes to the design of the car without the necessary permits. Such a violation can cause not only a fine, but also deregistration of the car.
What is the fine if you do not register a gas kit that has already been supplied?
If you do not register the installation of LPG, you will be subject to a fine of only 500 rubles under Part 1 of Article 12.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for violating clause 7.14 of the “Basic provisions for the admission of vehicles to operation” - making changes to the design without permission from the traffic police.
But in addition to the fine, the driver receives an order (demand) to restore the car to its original condition. If this is not done and the car is not presented for inspection after 10 days, the traffic police will cancel the car’s registration.
If HBO is already installed?
If you do not want such sanctions specifically in the case of already installed gas, then you need to act quickly enough:
- obtain the conclusion of the first examination,
- take permission from the traffic police to install gas equipment, and the problem is solved.
Pay attention to this subtlety. The traffic police punishes for failure to comply with the requirement of clause 7.14 mentioned above, that is, for the fact that the already installed gas equipment is installed without the permission of the traffic police. And once permission has been received, then why stop registration?!
There is no need to remove equipment to legalize it in order to first obtain permission to install it and then reinstall it:
“...the dismantling of components and equipment installed on a vehicle without appropriate permission in order to obtain permission to make changes to the design of the vehicle is not provided,” - Letter No. 3/167714245742 dated November 21, 2016 from the First Deputy Head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation V.V. Shvetsova.
One more note: if a car with gas equipment was registered, for which a certificate of changes to the design was not received, then de facto the change to the design itself has already been legalized. But I’m omitting the details so as not to tempt you, since proving this statement requires some legal preparation, and it is quite possible that you will need to go to court.
For this reason, if you bought a car with already installed gas equipment that was not registered in the manner required by law in 2021, then there is no point in going to the traffic police to register. They will not register. We will have to either dismantle the equipment or legalize it.
The price of registering gas equipment for a car with the traffic police according to the new rules for 2021
The cost of registering equipment with the traffic police consists of several parts:
- Preliminary inspection costs.
- The cost of installing gas equipment with the issuance of certificates for equipment, diagnostic cards and other documents.
- Cost of inspection after installation.
- State fees for issuing documents to the traffic police.
The price of registering gas equipment for a car with the State Traffic Inspectorate varies depending on the region and the organization that will carry out the installation, as well as 2 technical inspections. And how much it costs to register gas equipment with the traffic police can be calculated using state duties, the amounts of which are established in Art. 333.33 Tax Code of the Russian Federation:
- 800 rub. — issuance of a certificate of conformity of design (clause 46 of article 333.33 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).
- 500 rub. — obtaining a vehicle registration certificate.
- 350 rub. — amendments to the PTS (clause 36 of Article 333.33 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).
Thus, the price of registering an LPG with the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, excluding the costs of technical inspections and installation of an LPG, is 1,650 rubles. You can receive a 30% discount on the stated amount if you apply online.
List of documents
Obtaining a license from MREO to use gas equipment is considered a very labor-intensive procedure. To legalize re-equipment for a new type of fuel, the vehicle owner will have to go through a number of procedures. It is recommended to follow the registration procedure, as this eliminates the risk of violations.
Preliminary examination
To apply for HBO, you must first pass a technical inspection. This procedure is required to determine whether gas supply can be installed on a given type of vehicle. At the same time, faults are identified that exclude the possibility of re-equipping the vehicle.
When conducting diagnostics, the car owner must bring:
- Identity document.
- Vehicle registration certificate.
- Vehicle passport.
It is important to know! A third party may be inspected. To do this, he must have a power of attorney from the owner of the car.
After the examination, a conclusion is issued stating that the vehicle can be converted to use gas fuel. Technical inspection is carried out only at certified stations that have the appropriate license.
Registration with the traffic police
To legalize the installation and obtain permission for HBO, you must submit the appropriate application. To fill out, you can use the form downloaded from the official website of the traffic police. However, it is recommended that you go directly to the branch where the sample is provided. Along with the application, documents are submitted for registering the gas equipment with the MREO.
These include
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- Conclusion of the examination.
- STS and PTS for cars.
- Car owner's passport.
- Power of attorney (if the owner of the vehicle does not carry out the registration independently).
When considering how to legalize HBO, it should be noted that a receipt for payment of the duty must also be attached to the certificates provided at the department. Its cost is 800 rubles. In addition, the vehicle owner needs to pay for technical expertise and directly for the installation of equipment.
Having found out what documents are needed to register an LPG with the traffic police and received them, the driver can legally convert the car. This procedure is performed only at certified service stations. After installing the device, the owner is provided with a number of certificates, including a certificate of modifications made.
The legislative framework
As of the beginning of 2021, the main bill defining the procedure for installing and registering gas equipment on a car is the technical regulation of the Customs Union “On the safety of wheeled vehicles.” On the territory of the Russian Federation, it is supplemented by the methodological recommendations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of 2015. The Ministry of Internal Affairs promised to issue its own Order regulating this issue back in 2016, but so far only a draft Order has been prepared, which has no legal force. In fact, this project largely duplicates the provisions of the mentioned technical regulations and previously published methodological recommendations.
When can you be fined for HBO?
As you can see, a fine for gas equipment can be imposed if the gas equipment is not registered on the car. For a primary violation, a fine of 500 rubles is imposed for installing gas equipment without registration. (according to Article 12.5 Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which specifies cases of imposition of such a fine).
The owner is also invited to undergo the LPG registration procedure within 10 days, receiving a certificate of changes in the design of the car. If a repeated violation is detected, a decree may be issued banning the operation of the vehicle, as well as arresting the driver for 15 days.
You can be fined for gas equipment if the owner has not complied with the requirements of the rules for making changes to the design of the vehicle, the registration certificate and registration certificate do not contain marks about the installation of gas equipment, and the equipment itself does not meet the requirements. A fine is also imposed if there are no certificates and documents for the gas equipment about the passage of scheduled equipment checks (for example, the numbers on the gas cylinder differ from the certificate numbers for the gas equipment and in the PTS).
Tips and tricks
As you can see, the legislation provides for fines for the illegal installation of gas equipment. As of today, in the territory of the Customs Union, traffic police officers have every right to fine the driver if unregistered gas equipment is installed on the car, and illegal modifications to the design of the vehicle have been identified.
Taking into account the fact that the first fine for unregistered gas equipment is not large, such a measure can be considered rather an incentive to register the installation in accordance with all the rules. It is important to understand that further neglect will inevitably entail more serious sanctions.
We also recommend reading the article about the pros and cons of installing LPG on a car. From this article you will learn about the main advantages and disadvantages of installing gas equipment.
For this reason, it is better to immediately install HBO in full compliance with all regulations. If the driver has already received a fine for HBO without registration, in this case the optimal solution would also be to legally register the equipment.
At the same time, you should not install gas on your car or try to convert the car in any way yourself in order to save money. One way or another, for registration you will need a package of documents from the organization installing the gas equipment, as well as the certificates for the equipment themselves.
Simplified procedure for legalizing gas equipment
A big advantage of the legalization process is that there is no need to dismantle the installed gas equipment system from the car . However, there are some points that the motorist needs to know about:
- The application for legalization is written according to the sample document that is filled out by owners who install gas equipment in their car for the first time. It must be submitted only after passing the initial technical inspection.
- It is important that HBO was installed in the car before 2015 inclusive. It should be understood that the inspector will not check this point in any way; the only exceptions may be cars that were produced after 2015.
- If the car has a production year of 2021 or later, then it may be necessary to dismantle the installed equipment. This is due to the fact that in this case, the installation of HBO was carried out after the adoption of the new law and does not fall under the concept of “legalization of HBO.”
Penalties
Driving a car without a registered HBO (must be noted in the documents) is a serious violation, which is punishable by a fine. The sanction involves payment of a receipt of 500 rubles. But the small size should not be misleading, because this punishment is intended only as a primary one. If the owner subsequently does not complete the mandatory registration procedure, he will face confiscation of the equipment or arrest for 15 days.
It is also important to monitor the completion of mandatory maintenance after installing gas-powered equipment, since driving with an expired inspection period is also not acceptable, as is driving with loose gas equipment. The punishment provided by the legislator aims to clear the roads of potentially dangerous vehicles, both for the driver himself and for other road users.
The process of registering a cylinder installation with the traffic police is a complex process that requires effort. There is no need to collect documents and make an appointment with an inspector for owners of vehicles where LPG is provided by the manufacturer or the technical passport contains a note about the possibility of carrying out conversions. If the entire package of papers has been collected, and the installation was carried out by a competent organization, then difficulties will not arise later.
