Carb establishes the official list of eligible vehicles based upon vehicle emissions.
Red carpool sticker expiration.
But there s a catch or actually a few.
The colors for future decals have not yet been determined.
One way to do that.
And if you do wait until december to buy one you probably want to wait until january to apply for a sticker as that one will last an extra year.
This provides an access period of three full years plus the partial year from when the decal was issued.
So the red stickers expire on jan 1 2022 purple ones expire on jan 1 2023.
If you find the original cav decals after you replace them surrender the originals to dmv with a letter of explanation for example you requested a new set of cav decals received them and the missing original cav decals were.
The california department of motor vehicles dmv issues clean air vehicle cav decals that allow vehicles meeting specified emissions standards single occupancy use of high occupancy vehicle hov or carpool lanes.
Future cav decals will expire on january 1st of the fourth year after the year they are issued.
The california bill signed into law october 10 ab 544 extends by three years the program.
Extend the popular hov lane access program.
For example if a decal was issued anytime in 2020 it expires january 1 2024.
There will be a different sticker issued beginning jan.
Those and the red stickers will expire after the fourth calendar year of issuance.
Their red hov stickers will still be valid.
State officials say the new red hov sticker won t expire until january of 2022.