Tire Fees, Waste Tires & Scrap Tire Rules

Vermont DMV issued a July 10, 2026 update to the Periodic Inspection Manual. The revision changed or clarified criteria and procedures across tires, brakes, steering, suspension, electrical systems, windows, windshields, wipers, exterior body evaluation and other inspection areas.

HB 757 (2026 Ky. Acts ch. 161, sec. 18), effective April 14, 2026, extended the $2 fee on each new motor vehicle, trailer and semitrailer tire sold in Kentucky from its July 1, 2026 sunset to July 1, 2034.

Beginning January 1, 2026, Washington increased the fee on retail sales of new replacement vehicle tires from $1 to $5 per tire. The buyer pays the fee to the seller, the seller must collect it, and retailers may retain 25 cents per tire for waste-tire management costs.

The Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2025 (Chapter 604) created a $5.00 per-tire fee on the first sale of a new tire in Maryland, starting January 1, 2026, and raised the tire recycling fee from $0.80 to $1.00 per tire. Both apply to tire dealers' first sales of new tires, including tires on new or used vehicles sold, and are filed by the 21st of the following month.

Washington Department of Revenue says that beginning January 1, 2026, sellers must collect a $5 fee on each new vehicle tire sold, up from $1. The amount a seller may retain increased to $0.25 per tire; the remainder is reported and paid to the state.

Georgia I/M amendments effective December 24, 2025 removed references to the 2-speed idle (TSI) test, which the state says is no longer conducted, and updated Georgia Analyzer System hardware/software requirements to Phase VI.

Effective September 1, 2025, New York expanded the waste tire management and recycling fee rules. Tire services must collect the $2.50 fee on new tires they install even when they did not sell the tire unless the purchaser shows the fee was already paid. The change also expanded collection to mail-order, phone-order and Internet retail sales delivered in New York, and physical retail locations may retain $0.25 per tire.

Under Colorado SB 24-123, retailers of new motor-vehicle and trailer tires began collecting both the waste-tire enterprise fee and the waste-tire administration fee at the point of sale on July 1, 2025, with required receipt language tied to the new fee structure.

Act 33 of 2025 (S.171), effective May 12, 2025, made it unlawful to install an unsafe used tire on a passenger car or light truck (e.g., tread at 2/32 inch or less, exposed plies, improper repairs, sealant without proper repair, missing DOT number, recalled tires). It extended the $2 tire fee to used tires and all unmounted tire sales, and set up waste-tire hauler manifests that tire generators must keep.

Rhode Island DBR set January 1, 2025 as the expiration date for specified I-CAR courses that had previously qualified toward auto body technician certification requirements. Those courses can no longer be used to satisfy the listed technician certification categories after that date.

Texas Water Code §5.587 created annual operational-status reporting for temporary and indefinite authorizations. TCEQ states the requirement became effective September 1, 2024 for scrap-tire generators and land-reclamation projects whose registrations do not expire and otherwise lack regular reporting.

Alabama ADEM amendments to Administrative Code Chapter 335-4-5 took effect August 12, 2024. The amendment added use of the Department-approved electronic system and updated receiver reporting and recordkeeping requirements. The current rule requires scrap-tire receivers to submit Form 539 electronically for each six-month period by the 28th day after the period ends and to retain specified operating records for at least three years.

Georgia's Inspection and Maintenance amendments effective February 26, 2024 removed the fuel-cap pressure-testing requirement and replaced it with fuel-cap verification. The same rulemaking repealed the separate on-road remote-sensing test requirement.

SB 109 (2023) extended Missouri's $0.50 per-new-tire fee from its December 31, 2025 sunset to December 31, 2031 and the $0.50 lead-acid battery fee from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2029, effective August 28, 2023.

Georgia changed responsibility for the $1 new-tire management fee on July 1, 2023. The fee is collected and remitted by the first distributor that sells a new replacement tire in Georgia, and many retail tire facilities that are not distributors no longer submit the prior quarterly fee reports and payments.

Effective July 1, 2019, Rhode Island's hard-to-dispose material tax doubled: tires from $0.50 to $1.00, lubricating oil from $0.05 to $0.10 per quart, antifreeze from $0.10 to $0.20 per gallon and organic solvents from $0.0025 to $0.005 per gallon. These remain the current rates.