[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 6]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR571.8]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                            OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 571_FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec.  571.8  Effective date.

    (a) Firefighting vehicles. Notwithstanding the effective date 
provisions of the motor vehicle safety standards in this part, the 
effective date of any standard or amendment of a standard issued after 
September 1, 1971, to which firefighting vehicles must conform shall be, 
with respect to such vehicles, either 2 years after the date on which 
such standard or amendment is published in the rules and regulations 
section of the Federal Register, or the effective date specified in the 
notice, whichever is later, except as such standard or amendment may 
otherwise specifically provide with respect to firefighting vehicles.
    (b) Vehicles built in two or more stages vehicles and altered 
vehicles. Unless Congress directs or the agency expressly determines 
that this paragraph does not apply, the date for manufacturer 
certification of compliance with any standard, or amendment to a 
standard, that is issued on or after September 1, 2006 is, insofar as 
its application to intermediate and final-stage manufacturers and 
alterers is concerned, one year

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after the last applicable date for manufacturer certification of 
compliance. Nothing in this provision shall be construed as prohibiting 
earlier compliance with the standard or amendment or as precluding NHTSA 
from extending a compliance effective date for intermediate and final-
stage manufacturers and alterers by more than one year.

[70 FR 7435, Feb. 14, 2005]