---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8522"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8522"
heading: "Out-of-State vehicles to be exempted from odd-even motor fuel purchase restrictions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8522"
units:
  - "Chapter 93 — Emergency Energy Conservation"
  - "Subchapter II — Other Automobile Fuel Purchase Measures"
---

# §8522. Out-of-State vehicles to be exempted from odd-even motor fuel purchase restrictions

- (a) **General rule—** Notwithstanding any provision of any Federal, [State](/usc/42/8502.md?p=8), or local law, any odd-even fuel purchase plan in effect in any [State](/usc/42/8502.md?p=8) may not prohibit the sale of [motor fuel](/usc/42/8502.md?p=3) to any [person](/usc/42/8502.md?p=4) for use in a [vehicle](/usc/42/8502.md?p=5) bearing a license plate issued by any authority other than that [State](/usc/42/8502.md?p=8) or a [State](/usc/42/8502.md?p=8) contiguous to that [State](/usc/42/8502.md?p=8).
- (b) **“Odd-even fuel purchase plan” defined—** For purposes of this section the term “odd-even fuel purchase plan” means any [motor fuel](/usc/42/8502.md?p=3) sales restriction under which a [person](/usc/42/8502.md?p=4) may purchase [motor fuel](/usc/42/8502.md?p=3) for use in any [vehicle](/usc/42/8502.md?p=5) only on days (or other periods of time) determined on the basis of a number or letter appearing on the license plate of that [vehicle](/usc/42/8502.md?p=5) (or on any similar basis).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–102, title II, § 222, Nov. 5, 1979, 93 Stat. 767.)