---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 385.321"
title: "49"
number: "385.321"
heading: "Safety audit: Failure."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/385.321"
---

# §385.321. Safety audit: Failure.

- (a) **General.** The failures of safety management practices consist of a lack of basic safety management controls as described in Appendix A of this part or failure to comply with one or more of the regulations set forth in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section and will result in a notice to a new entrant that its USDOT new entrant registration will be revoked.
- (b) **Automatic failure of the audit.** A new entrant will automatically fail a safety audit if found in violation of any one of the following 16 regulations:

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 76489, Dec. 16, 2008, as amended at 77 FR 26989, May 8, 2012; 80 FR 59073, Oct. 1, 2015]

### Source

Source: 67 FR 31983, May 13, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 113, 504, 521(b), 5105(d), 5109, 5113, 13901-13905, 13908, 31135, 31136, 31144, 31148, 31151, 31502; sec. 113(a), Pub. L. 103-311, 108 Stat. 1673, 1676; sec. 408, Pub. L. 104-88, 109 Stat. 803, 958; sec. 350, Pub. L. 107-87, 115 Stat. 833, 864; sec. 5205, Pub. L. 114-94, 129 Stat. 1312, 1537; and 49 CFR 1.87.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 50968, Dec. 19, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 76489, Dec. 16, 2008, as amended at 77 FR 26989, May 8, 2012; 80 FR 59073, Oct. 1, 2015]