---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7553"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7553"
heading: "Prohibition on production of engines requiring leaded gasoline"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7553"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Emission Standards for Moving Sources"
  - "Part A — Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards"
---

# §7553. Prohibition on production of engines requiring leaded gasoline


The [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall promulgate regulations applicable to [motor vehicle](/usc/42/7550.md?p=2) engines and [nonroad engines](/usc/42/7550.md?p=10) manufactured after model year 1992 that prohibit the manufacture, sale, or introduction into [commerce](/usc/42/7550.md?p=6) of any engine that requires leaded gasoline.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title II, § 218, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title II, § 226, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2505.)