Maryland inspections are pretty thorough, so yes, it would fail for that. It would fail too if you had any holes due to rust. That's why inspections can take all day to get done (unlike Virginia where they take 15-30 minutes).

On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at 01:28PM, Helmut Blong <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Alright, I'm running out of days in Sept and booked a MD state inspection
>for tomorrow. My assistant was riding behind my 90 Carat today and noticed
>that when I put on the right turn signal, both reverse lights flashed in
>addition to the turn signal lamp. Left turn signal flashes only the turn
>signal lamp. Transmission in reverse does not turn on reverse lights. The
>questions:
>
>1. Ground?
>2. Reverse switch?
>3. Should it fail inspection for such a charming fault?
>
>Cheers,
>
>mordo
>
>