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[CITE: 40USC701]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 14--SAFETY STANDARDS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES
 
Sec. 701. Prohibition on acquisition or purchase of motor 
        vehicles by Federal Government unless equipped with passenger 
        safety devices
        
    No motor vehicle manufactured on or after the effective date of this 
section shall be acquired by purchase by the Federal Government for use 
by the Federal Government unless such motor vehicle is equipped with 
such reasonable passenger safety devices as the Administrator of General 
Services shall require which conform with standards prescribed by him in 
accordance with section 702 of this title.

(Pub. L. 88-515, Sec. 1, Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 696.)

                       References in Text

    For the effective date of this section, referred to in text, see 
section 4 of Pub. L. 88-515, set out as an Effective Date note below.


                             Effective Date

    Section 4 of Pub. L. 88-515 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this 
chapter] shall take effect on the date of its enactment [Aug. 30, 1964] 
except that the first section of this Act [enacting this section] shall 
take effect one year and ninety days after the date of publication of 
commercial standards first established under section 2 of this Act 
[enacting section 702 of this title]. If such standards as so first 
established are thereafter changed, such standards, as so changed, shall 
take effect one year and ninety days after the date of publication of 
such changed standards.''


                               Short Title

    Pub. L. 88-515, Aug. 30, 1964, 78 Stat. 696, which is classified 
generally to this chapter, is popularly known as the ``Roberts Act''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 702 of this title.
