BATON ROUGE — Benny's Car Wash and Oil Change announced that it will be discontinuing state inspection services at both the Perkins Road and Coursey Boulevard locations beginning on Monday.

The discontinuation of services comes as House Bill 1085 seeks to eliminate state vehicle inspection stickers and instead replace them with a $6 QR code containing the vehicle's information. 

The five parishes surrounding Baton Rouge sit in a unique situation. East Baton Rouge, Livingston, West Baton Rouge, Ascension and Iberville parishes all require a separate emissions test on top of the standard inspection.

That test costs an extra $8 and is a federal requirement dating back 33 years. 

If the bill passes, inspection stickers would disappear starting Jan. 1 of next year.

Officials from Benny's said that the company has faced challenges in obtaining state-required certification training for vehicle inspectors. 

"While inspections remain a requirement today, the future of the program is changing," said owner Justin Alford. "After carefully evaluating the long-term outlook of the program, we believe this is the right decision for our company and our customers."