Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 23, 2024

Title 49 - Transportation last revised: Nov 18, 2024
§ 579.2 - Purpose.

The purpose of this part is to enhance motor vehicle safety by specifying information and documents that manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment must provide to NHTSA with respect to possible safety-related defects and noncompliances in their products, including the reporting of safety recalls and other safety campaigns that the manufacturer conducts outside the United States.

[67 FR 63310, Oct. 11, 2002]
authority: 49 U.S.C. 30102-103,30112,30117,30166; delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 49 CFR 501.8
source: 67 FR 45873, July 10, 2002, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 49 CFR 579.2