[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR568.8]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 568--VEHICLES MANUFACTURED IN TWO OR MORE STAGES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 568.8  Requirements for persons who alter certified vehicles.

    A person who alters a vehicle that has been previously certified in 
accordance with Sec. 567.4 or Sec. 567.5, other than by the addition, 
substitution, or removal of readily attachable components such as 
mirrors or tire and rim assemblies, or minor finishing operations such 
as painting, or who alters a vehicle in such a manner that its stated 
weight ratings are no longer valid, before the first purchase of the 
vehicle in good faith for purposes other than resale, shall ascertain 
that the vehicle as altered conforms to the standards which are affected 
by the alteration and are in effect on the original date of

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manufacture of the vehicle, the date of final completion, or a date 
between those two dates. That person shall certify the vehicle in 
accordance with Sec. 567.7 of this chapter.

[45 FR 18929, Mar. 24, 1980]