Interpretation ID: nht67-1.30

DATE: 02/27/67

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; William Haddon, Jr., M.D.; NHTSA

TO: North America Seat Belt Council, Inc.

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of February 16, 1967.

Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 209 applies to seat belt assemblies manufactured after February 28, 1967, for use in passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks, and buses. Since Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, which provides that a Type 1 or Type 2 seat belt assembly that conforms to Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 209 shall be installed in each passenger car seat position, has an effective date of January 1, 1968, until that date seat belt assemblies installed in passenger cars need not conform to Standard No. 209 unless the seat belt assemblies have been manufactured after February 28, 1967.

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