---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 32711"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "32711"
heading: "Relationship to State law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/32711"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part C — Information, Standards, and Requirements"
  - "Chapter 327 — Odometers"
---

# §32711. Relationship to State law


Except to the extent that [State](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-12) law is inconsistent with this chapter, this chapter does not—

- (1) affect a [State](/usc/49/30102.md?p=a-12) law on disconnecting, altering, or tampering with an [odometer](/usc/49/32702.md?p=5) with intent to defraud; or
- (2) exempt a person from complying with that law.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1056.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 32711 | 15:1991. | Oct. 20, 1972, Pub. L. 92–513, § 418, 86 Stat. 963; July 14, 1976, Pub. L. 94–364, § 408(1), 90 Stat. 984. |

In this section, before clause (1), the words “and then only to the extent of the inconsistency” are omitted as surplus. In clause (1), the word “affect” is substituted for “annul, alter, or affect” to eliminate unnecessary words. In clause (2), the words “subject to the provisions of this subchapter” are omitted as surplus.