[Code
of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5, Parts 400 to 999]
[Revised as of October 1, 1999]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR574.8]
[Page 776]
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. 574.4(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. 574.4(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. 574.4(a) (4), unless such a means has been provided to that distributor or dealer by another person or 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).
Per NHTSA Regulations, INDEPENDENT TIRE DEALERS are defined as Tire Dealers who sell tire brands owned by tire manufacturers and private brand owners. Thus Selling Dealers include all mass merchandisers such as; Sears, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, NTB, Warehouse Clubs, etc., plus large multi-tire outlets such as; Big O, Discount Tire, Tire Kingdom, Merchant's Tire, etc., and all other dealers who sell tires for highway use.
