Interpretation ID: aiam1360
Manager
Louisiana Independent Tire Dealers Association
4500 5th Avenue So. No. 307
Birmingham
AL 35212;
Dear Mr. Jones: This is in reply to your letter of November 14, 1973, to Michael Pesko of our Chief Counsel's Office, asking whether dealers must record the name and address of the tire purchaser on the appropriate form at the same time the tire is sold. You indicate that most dealers record the information on their sales tickets and put it on registration forms at some later time, as the press of business allows.; The Tire Identification and Recordkeeping regulations (49 CFR Part 574 do not require dealers to record the information on the registration form at any specific time. The 'scare stories' to which you refer are not true at all. A recent NHTSA investigation of dealer recording practices was intended only to discover whether dealers were writing down the tire ID number and the purchaser's name, and not whether they were recording the information on particular forms.; The Tire Identification regulation (S 574.8(b)) requires th information to be supplied to the manufacturer (or person maintaining the information) every 30 days, unless less than 40 tires are sold (your letter to us incorrectly stated less than 60 tires), in which case the information must be reported when 40 tires are sold or 6 months elapses, whichever occurs first.; I hope this clarifies the situation. Sincerely, Lawrence R. Schneider, Chief Counsel