[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 6]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR574.8]

[Page 1037]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                   CHAPTER V--NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
                    SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 574_TIRE IDENTIFICATION AND RECORDKEEPING--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  574.8  Information requirements--tire distributors and dealers.

    (a) Independent distributors and dealers. (1) Each independent 
distributor and each independent dealer selling or leasing new tires to 
tire purchasers or lessors (hereinafter referred to in this section as 
``tire purchasers'') shall provide each tire purchaser at the time of 
sale or lease of the tire(s) with a tire registration form.
    (2) The distributor or dealer may use either the registration forms 
provided by the tire manufacturers pursuant to Sec.  574.7(a) or 
registration forms obtained from another source. Forms obtained from 
other sources shall comply with the requirements specified in Sec.  
574.7(a) for forms provided by tire manufacturers to independent 
distributors and dealers.
    (3) Before giving the registration form to the tire purchaser, the 
distributor or dealer shall record in the appropriate spaces provided on 
that form:
    (i) The entire tire identification number of the tire(s) sold or 
leased to the tire purchaser, and
    (ii) The distributor's or dealer's name and address or other means 
of identification known to the tire manufacturer.
    (4) Multiple tire purchases or leases by the same tire purchaser may 
be recorded on a single registration form.
    (b) Other distributors and dealers. (1) Each distributor and each 
dealer, other than an independent distributor or dealer, selling new 
tires to tire purchasers shall submit the information specified in Sec.  
574.4(a)(4) to the manufacturer of the tires sold, or to its designee.
    (2) Each tire distributor and each dealer, other than an independent 
distributor or dealer, shall submit registration forms containing the 
information specified in Sec.  574.7(a)(4) to the tire manufacturer, or 
person maintaining the information, not less often than every 30 days. 
However, a distributor or dealer which sells less than 40 tires, of all 
makes, types and sizes during a 30-day period may wait until he or she 
sells a total of 40 new tires, but in no event longer than six months, 
before forwarding the tire information to the respective tire 
manufacturers or their designees.
    (c) Each distributor and each dealer selling new tires to other tire 
distributors or dealers shall supply to the distributor or dealer a 
means to record the information specified in Sec.  574.7(a)(4), unless 
such a means has been provided to that distributor or dealer by another 
person or by a manufacturer.
    (d) Each distributor and each dealer shall immediately stop selling 
any group of tires when so directed by a notification issued pursuant to 
sections 151 and 152 of the Act (15 U.S.C. 1411 and 1412).

(Authority: Secs. 108, 119, and 201, Pub. L. 89-563, 80 Stat. 718 (15 
U.S.C. 1392, 1407, and 1421); sec. 4, Pub. L. 97-311, 96 Stat. 1619 (15 
U.S.C. 1418); and delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.50)

[49 FR 4761, Feb. 8, 1984, as amended at 56 FR 49427, Sept. 30, 1991]