---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 32704"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "32704"
heading: "Service, repair, and replacement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/32704"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part C — Information, Standards, and Requirements"
  - "Chapter 327 — Odometers"
---

# §32704. Service, repair, and replacement

- (a) **Adjusting Mileage.—** A person may service, repair, or replace an [odometer](/usc/49/32702.md?p=5) of a [motor vehicle](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-7) if the mileage registered by the [odometer](/usc/49/32702.md?p=5) remains the same as before the service, repair, or replacement. If the mileage cannot remain the same—
  - (1) the person shall adjust the [odometer](/usc/49/32702.md?p=5) to read zero; and
  - (2) the owner of the vehicle or agent of the owner shall attach a written notice to the left door frame of the vehicle specifying the mileage before the service, repair, or replacement and the date of the service, repair, or replacement.
- (b) **Removing or Altering Notice.—** A person may not, with intent to defraud, remove or alter a notice attached to a [motor vehicle](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-7) as required by this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1049.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 32704 | 15:1987. | Oct. 20, 1972, Pub. L. 92–513, § 407, 86 Stat. 962; July 14, 1976, Pub. L. 94–364, § 405, 90 Stat. 983. |

In subsection (b), the text of 15:1987(b)(1) is omitted as surplus.