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[CITE: 49USC32506]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
             SUBTITLE VI--MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS
 
            PART C--INFORMATION, STANDARDS, AND REQUIREMENTS
 
                      CHAPTER 325--BUMPER STANDARDS
 
Sec. 32506. Prohibited acts

    (a) General.--Except as provided in this section and section 32502 
of this title, a person may not--
        (1) manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, introduce or 
    deliver for introduction in interstate commerce, or import into the 
    United States, a passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle 
    equipment manufactured on or after the date an applicable standard 
    under section 32502 of this title takes effect, unless it conforms 
    to the standard;
        (2) fail to comply with an applicable regulation prescribed by 
    the Secretary of Transportation under this chapter;
        (3) fail to keep records, refuse access to or copying of 
    records, fail to make reports or provide items or information, or 
    fail or refuse to allow entry or inspection, as required by this 
    chapter or a regulation prescribed under this chapter; or
        (4) fail to provide the certificate required by section 32504 of 
    this title, or provide a certificate that the person knows, or in 
    the exercise of reasonable care has reason to know, is false or 
    misleading in a material respect.

    (b) Nonapplication.--Subsection (a)(1) of this section does not 
apply to--
        (1) the sale, offer for sale, or introduction or delivery for 
    introduction in interstate commerce of a passenger motor vehicle or 
    passenger motor vehicle equipment after the first purchase of the 
    vehicle or equipment in good faith other than for resale (but this 
    clause does not prohibit a standard from requiring that a vehicle or 
    equipment be manufactured to comply with the standard over a 
    specified period of operation or use); or
        (2) a person--
            (A) establishing that the person had no reason to know, by 
        exercising reasonable care, that the vehicle or equipment does 
        not comply with the standard; or
            (B) holding, without knowing about a noncompliance and 
        before that first purchase, a certificate issued under section 
        32504 of this title stating that the vehicle or equipment 
        complies with the standard.

    (c) Importing Noncomplying Vehicles and Equipment.--(1) The 
Secretaries of Transportation and the Treasury may prescribe joint 
regulations authorizing a passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor 
vehicle equipment not complying with a standard prescribed under section 
32502 of this title to be imported into the United States subject to 
conditions (including providing a bond) the Secretaries consider 
appropriate to ensure that the vehicle or equipment will--
        (A) comply, after importation, with the standards prescribed 
    under section 32502 of this title;
        (B) be exported; or
        (C) be abandoned to the United States Government.

    (2) The Secretaries may prescribe joint regulations that allow a 
passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle equipment to be 
imported into the United States after the first purchase in good faith 
other than for resale.
    (d) Liability Under Other Law.--Compliance with a standard under 
this chapter does not exempt a person from liability provided by law.

(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1045; Pub. L. 105-
277, div. A, Sec. 101(g) [title III, Sec. 351(b)(2)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2681-439, 2681-476.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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32506(a)..............................  15:1916(a).                      Oct. 2
0, 1972, Pub. L. 92-513, Sec.
                                                                          106, 
86 Stat. 952.
32506(b)..............................  15:1916(b)(1), (2).
32506(c)..............................  15:1916(b)(3), (4).
32506(d)..............................  15:1916(c).
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    In subsection (a)(4), the words ``required by such subsection to the 
effect that a passenger motor vehicle or passenger motor vehicle 
equipment conforms to all applicable bumper standards'' are omitted as 
surplus.
    In subsection (c)(1), before clause (A), the word ``conditions'' is 
substituted for ``such terms and conditions'' to eliminate unnecessary 
words. In clause (A), the words ``comply, after importation'' are 
substituted for ``brought into conformity'' for clarity and consistency.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-277 inserted ``and section 32502 of 
this title'' after ``Except as provided in this section'' in 
introductory provisions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 32507 of this title.
