[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: 49CFR583.9]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 583--AUTOMOBILE PARTS CONTENT LABELING--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 583.9  Attachment and maintenance of label.

    (a) Attachment of the label.
    (1) Except as provided in (a)(2), each manufacturer shall cause the 
label required by Sec. 583.5 to be affixed to each new passenger motor 
vehicle before the vehicle is delivered to a dealer.
    (2) For vehicles which are delivered to a dealer prior to the 
introduction date for the model in question, each manufacturer shall 
cause the label required by Sec. 583.5 to be affixed to the vehicle 
prior to such introduction date.
    (b) Maintenance of the label.

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    (1) Each dealer shall cause to be maintained each label on the new 
passenger motor vehicles it receives until after such time as a vehicle 
has been sold to a consumer for purposes other than resale.
    (2) If the manufacturer of a passenger motor vehicle provides a 
substitute label containing corrected information, the dealer shall 
replace the original label with the substitute label.
    (3) If a label becomes damaged so that the information it contains 
is not legible, the dealer shall replace it with an identical, undamaged 
label.