---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 573.5"
title: "49"
number: "573.5"
heading: "Defect and noncompliance responsibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/573.5"
---

# §573.5. Defect and noncompliance responsibility.

- (a) Each manufacturer of a motor vehicle shall be responsible for any safety-related defect or any noncompliance determined to exist in the vehicle or in any item of original equipment.
- (b) Each manufacturer of an item of replacement equipment shall be responsible for any safety-related defect or any noncompliance determined to exist in the equipment.

## Notes

### Amendments

[67 FR 45872, July 10, 2002]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30102, 30103, 30116-30121, 30166, Pub. L. 112-141, 126 Stat. 405; delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 49 CFR 501.8.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 60169, Dec. 26, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[67 FR 45872, July 10, 2002]