Interpretation ID: nht71-1.6

DATE: 08/09/71

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; Robert L. Carter; NHTSA

TO: Holen Company

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letters of June 30 and August 2 on the subject of the applicability of Standard No. 210 to multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks, and buses as amended by notice of March 4, 1971 (36 F.R. 4291). The standard applies to these vehicles effective July 1, 1971, even though the heading published in the Register refers only to passenger cars. The application of the standard is controlled by the application section, S2, and not by the heading of the standard. The heading only reflects the substance of the application section and should automatically change whenever the application is changed. Through oversight, the Federal Register was given no instructions as to handing changes, and therefore inserted the old heading into the March 4 notice. Since the heading has no substantive role, and since the amendment is only in effect until the revised Standard No. 210 becomes effective January 1, 1972, we have not requested the Federal Register to alter the heading.

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