---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 583.9"
title: "49"
number: "583.9"
heading: "Attachment and maintenance of label."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/583.9"
---

# §583.9. Attachment and maintenance of label.

- (a) **Attachment of the label.**
  - (1) Except as provided in (a)(2), each manufacturer shall cause the label required by [§ 583.5](/cfr/49/583.5.md) to be affixed to each new passenger motor vehicle before the vehicle is delivered to a dealer.
  - (2) For vehicles which are delivered to a dealer prior to the introduction date for the model in question, each manufacturer shall cause the label required by [§ 583.5](/cfr/49/583.5.md) to be affixed to the vehicle prior to such introduction date.
- (b) **Maintenance of the label.**
  - (1) Each dealer shall cause to be maintained each label on the new passenger motor vehicles it receives until after such time as a vehicle has been sold to a consumer for purposes other than resale.
  - (2) If the manufacturer of a passenger motor vehicle provides a substitute label containing corrected information, the dealer shall replace the original label with the substitute label.
  - (3) If a label becomes damaged so that the information it contains is not legible, the dealer shall replace it with an identical, undamaged label.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 32304, 49 CFR 1.50, 501.2(f).

### Source

Source: 59 FR 37330, July 21, 1994, unless otherwise noted.