---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 30181"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "30181"
heading: "Policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/30181"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 301 — Motor Vehicle Safety"
  - "Subchapter V — Motor Vehicle Safety Research and Development"
---

# §30181. Policy


The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct research, development, and testing on any area or aspect of [motor vehicle safety](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-9) necessary to carry out this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–141, div. C, title I, § 31204(a), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 759.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.