My daughter is a student and I'm coming up to CS tomorrow, while I'm there I need to get her car inspected so I can get her registration done by end of Nov. Prob is, car is registered in Harris Co which requires the emissions inspection. This may be a dumb question (I'm kind of a dumb guy lol) but are BCS inspection locations set up to do emissions testing?

You'll probably need to go to an emissions county to get it tested. I doubt anyone purchased the equipment in Brazos Co. to do work that isn't needed often.

When I was a student at A&M with a car registered in Dallas county, I had to sign an affidavit saying that the vehicle was being driven in a non-emissions county for 9 months or more. Not sure if that is still a path.

Assuming she's heading to Harris County for Thanksgiving, do it then. You've probably thought about that already and there's a reason it won't work but had to throw the obvious option out there.

You may try calling a couple of places in BCS and asking if they know of anyone that does it. About a month ago I was in a shop and a guy came in asking about emissions and if they knew anyone around that did it. I can't remember what the answer was but you're definitely not the only one with this problem.

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/mobilesource/vim/waivers.html


Exemption Affidavit: An owner of a vehicle registered in Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, El Paso, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Travis, and Williamson Counties may have a vehicle safety inspection performed in a county where the emissions inspection is not required if one of the following conditions is true:

- the vehicle will not be primarily operated (driven, parked, or stored less than 60 days per year) in one of the affected counties listed above (examples: certain company fleet vehicles, hunting vehicles);

-the vehicle will no longer be primarily operated for 60 calendar days per inspection cycle in one of the counties listed above (example: someone who moved from an affected county); or

-the vehicle will not return to an affected county prior to the expiration of the current vehicle registration sticker (example: student, vacationer, extended out-of-town business).
The owner of the vehicle must complete the affidavit process for the vehicle emissions inspection exemption at the inspection station performing the annual vehicle safety inspection and the affidavit notation must be printed on the vehicle inspection report.