If its in good running condition it just might. I know that things differ from state to state. Sometimes it depends on who is doing the inspection. Ask a mechanic you can trust and see what he says. Good luck with it.
Without the evap canister, I passed Ohio emissions tests quite a few years in a row. Had to do some tuning to pass one of those years though, other than that I didn't have any problems. That was on a 79 cj7, 304 and quite some years ago.
my problem was an unported vacuum line was tee'd into a ported line .. that also runs my vac advance .. capped that port and it passed emissions just fine .
Thank you for the response its good to learn the solutions to these difficult problems. I think this should help others out with similar problems. I know that I learn from it. Thanks again.