---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 565"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "565"
heading: "Maintenance validation and oversight"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/565"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XII–A — Transportation Security"
  - "Part C — Maintenance of Security-related Technology"
---

# §565. Maintenance validation and oversight

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 180 days after October 5, 2018, the [Administrator](/usc/6/701.md?p=1) shall develop and implement a preventive maintenance validation process for security-related technology deployed to airports.
- (b) **Maintenance by Administration personnel at airports—** For maintenance to be carried out by Administration [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) at airports, the process referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall include the following:
  - (1) Guidance to Administration [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) at airports specifying how to conduct and document preventive maintenance actions.
  - (2) Mechanisms for the [Administrator](/usc/6/701.md?p=1) to verify compliance with the guidance issued pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#b-1).
- (c) **Maintenance by contractors at airports—** For maintenance to be carried by a contractor at airports, the process referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall require the following:
  - (1) Provision of monthly preventative maintenance schedules to appropriate Administration [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) at each airport that includes information on each action to be completed by contractor.[^1]
  - (2) Notification to appropriate Administration [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) at each airport when maintenance action is completed by a contractor.
  - (3) A process for independent validation by a third party of contractor maintenance.
- (d) **Penalties for noncompliance—** The [Administrator](/usc/6/701.md?p=1) shall require maintenance for any contracts entered into 60 days after October 5, 2018, or later for security-related technology deployed to airports to include penalties for noncompliance when it is determined that either preventive or corrective maintenance has not been completed according to contractual requirements and manufacturers’ specifications.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be preceded by “a”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XVI, § 1621, as added Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, title I, § 1918(a), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3558.)