[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 24]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR202.23]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 202_MOTOR CARRIERS ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE--Table of Contents

 

         Subpart B_Interstate Motor Carrier Operations Standards

 

Sec.  202.23  Visual tire inspection.



    No motor carrier subject to these regulations shall at any time 

operate any motor vehicle of a type to which this regulation is 

applicable on a tire or tires having a tread pattern which as originally 

manufactured, or as newly retreaded, is composed primarily or cavities 

in the tread (excluding sipes and local chunking) which are not vented 

by grooves to the tire shoulder or circumferentially to each other 

around the tire. This Sec.  202.23 shall not apply to any motor vehicle 

which is demonstrated by the motor carrier which operates it to be in 

compliance with the noise emission standard specified for operations on 

highways with speed limits of more than 35 MPH in Sec.  202.20 of this 

Subpart B, if the demonstration is conducted at the highway speed limit 

in effect at the inspection location, or, if speed is unlimited, the 

demonstration is conducted at a speed of 65 MPH.



[39 FR 38215, Oct. 29, 1974]