That depends on the inspector......................i also live in va and one of my local shop's lifted my car up in the air and looked under it for inspection...... but if anyone asks i have cats 4 of em they are just leaning against the side of my shed...................and yes some cops do check if they want to be d!cks.............specially state troopers. i got pulled over for not haveing a tag on the front of my stang and lucky for me he didnt look (at that time i had the long tube headers off road h-pipe and flows on the car)