[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: 49CFR579.27]

[Page 938-939]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 579--REPORTING OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT POTENTIAL DEFECTS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart C--Reporting of Early Warning Information
 
Sec. 579.27  Reporting requirements for manufacturers of fewer than 500 vehicles annually, for manufacturers of original equipment, and for manufacturers of 
          replacement equipment other than child restraint systems and 
          tires.

    (a) Applicability. This section applies to all manufacturers of 
motor vehicles that are not required to file a report pursuant to 
Secs. 579.21 through 579.24 of

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this part, to all manufacturers of original equipment, to all 
manufacturers of replacement equipment other than manufacturers of tires 
and child restraint systems, and to registered importers registered 
under 49 U.S.C. 30141(c).
    (b) Information on incidents involving deaths. For each reporting 
period, a manufacturer to which this section applies shall submit a 
report, pertaining to vehicles and/or equipment manufactured or sold 
during the calendar year of the reporting period and the nine calendar 
years prior to the reporting period (four calendar years for equipment), 
including models no longer in production, on each incident involving one 
or more deaths occurring in the United States that is identified in a 
claim against and received by the manufacturer or in a notice received 
by the manufacturer which notice alleges or proves that the death was 
caused by a possible defect in the manufacturer's vehicle or equipment, 
together with each incident involving one or more deaths occurring in a 
foreign country that is identified in a claim against and received by 
the manufacturer involving the manufacturer's vehicle or equipment, if 
it is identical or substantially similar to a vehicle or item of 
equipment that the manufacturer has offered for sale in the United 
States. The report shall be organized such that incidents are reported 
alphabetically by make, within each make alphabetically by model, and 
within each model chronologically by model year.
    (c) For each incident described in paragraph (b) of this section, 
the manufacturer shall separately report the make, model, and model year 
of the vehicle or equipment, the VIN (for vehicles only), the incident 
date, the number of deaths, the number of injuries for incidents 
occurring in the United States, the State or foreign country where the 
incident occurred, each system or component of the vehicle or equipment 
that allegedly contributed to the incident, and whether the incident 
involved a fire or rollover, as follows:
    (1) For light vehicles, the system or component involved, and the 
existence of a fire or rollover, shall be identified and coded as 
specified in Sec. 579.21(b)(2) of this part.
    (2) For medium-heavy vehicles and buses, the system or component 
involved, and the existence of a fire or rollover, shall be identified 
and coded as specified in Sec. 579.22(b)(2) of this part.
    (3) For motorcycles, the system or component involved, and the 
existence of a fire, shall be identified and coded as specified in 
Sec. 579.23(b)(2) of this part.
    (4) For trailers, the system or component involved, and the 
existence of a fire, shall be identified and coded as specified in 
Sec. 579.24(b)(2) of this part.
    (5) For original and replacement equipment, a written identification 
of each component of the equipment that was allegedly involved, and 
whether there was a fire, in the manufacturer's own words.