Why you may be pulled over

The Ontario Environment Ministry has sent an inspection team to North Bay to perform random vehicle inspections.

Provincial officers were on McIntyre Street Wednesday afternoon pulling vehicles over, and they will be in the city until Friday performing inspections at different North Bay locations.

“We’re looking at vehicle emission components, checking to make sure they’re there and hooked up the way they’re supposed to be,” said Provincial Officer Don Mills.

Officers will be looking for components like EGR valves, evaporative canisters, PCV valves and catalytic converters, Mills said.

About 15 vehicles were inspected Wednesday, Mills said, with only one infraction found.
If emission components are absent or not hooked up, officers have the discretion of giving out tickets with $380 fines attached, or handing the driver a form ordering the problem to be fixed, Mills said.

The Toronto-based team travels the province year round conducting emissions inspections.