Regulations last checked for updates: Apr 30, 2025

Title 49 - Transportation last revised: Mar 20, 2025
§ 577.2 - Purpose.

The purpose of this part is to ensure that notifications of defects or noncompliances adequately inform and effectively motivate owners of potentially defective or noncomplying motor vehicles or items of replacement equipment to have such vehicles or equipment inspected and, where necessary, remedied as quickly as possible. It is also to ensure that dealers and distributors of motor vehicles and items of replacement equipment are made aware of the existence of defects and noncompliances and of their rights and responsibilities with regard thereto.

[41 FR 56816, Dec. 30, 1976, as amended at 69 FR 34959, June 23, 2004]
authority: 49 U.S.C. 30102,30103,30116,30166; delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 49 CFR 501.8
source: 41 FR 56816, Dec. 30, 1976, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 49 CFR 577.2