Title 49, Chapter 301 — Motor Vehicle Safety

Purpose and policy

Definitions

Relationship to other laws

Authorization of appropriations

Restriction on lobbying activities

Rented or leased motor vehicle safety and responsibility

Standards

Prohibitions on manufacturing, selling, and importing noncomplying motor vehicles and equipment

General exemptions

Special exemptions

Certification of compliance

Defects and noncompliance found before sale to purchaser

Providing information to, and maintaining records on, purchasers

Notification of defects and noncompliance

Notification procedures

Remedies for defects and noncompliance

Recall obligations and bankruptcy of a manufacturer

Provisional notification and civil actions to enforce

Making safety devices and elements inoperative

Tires

Nonuse of safety belts

Schoolbuses and schoolbus equipment

Used motor vehicles

Automatic occupant crash protection and seat belt use

Vehicle rollover prevention and crash mitigation

Crash avoidance technology

Importing motor vehicles capable of complying with standards

Importing motor vehicles for personal use

Motor vehicles imported by individuals employed outside the United States

Importing motor vehicles on a temporary basis

Importing motor vehicles or equipment requiring further manufacturing

Release of motor vehicles and bonds

Responsibility for defects and noncompliance

Judicial review of standards

Petitions by interested persons for standards and enforcement

Actions by the Attorney General

Service of process; conditions on importation of vehicles and equipment

Civil penalty

Inspections, investigations, and records

Disclosure of information by the Secretary of Transportation

Repealed. Pub. L. 112–141, div. C, title I, § 31204(b)(2)(B), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 760]

Annual reports

Criminal Penalties

Protection of employees providing motor vehicle safety information

Whistleblower incentives and protections

Policy

Powers and duties

Prohibition on certain disclosures