49 U.S.C. § 33114 — Prohibited acts

(a) General. This section lists five things a person must not do with a motor vehicle or major replacement part that federal theft-prevention standards cover. (1) You can't manufacture, sell, offer to sell, bring into interstate commerce, or import a covered vehicle or part unless it meets the standard. (2) You can't fail to follow a rule the Secretary of Transportation or the Attorney General made under this chapter. (3) You can't skip required recordkeeping. That means: failing to keep the records the law requires, refusing to let someone see or copy them, failing to file reports, failing to give requested items or information, or refusing to allow entry or inspection. (4) You can't skip the certification required by section 33108(c). You also can't give a certification that you know — or should have known if you used reasonable care — is false or misleading in an important way. (5) You can't knowingly do any of these three things: (A) own, run, maintain, or control a "chop shop" (a place that breaks down stolen vehicles for parts); (B) work inside a chop shop; or (C) move a passenger vehicle or its parts to or from a chop shop. (b) Nonapplication. Rule (1) above — the ban on selling non-conforming vehicles or parts — does not apply to you if you can show that, even though you used reasonable care, you had no reason to know the vehicle or part failed to meet the standard.