TITLE 49

MOTOR VEHICLES

CHAPTER 9

VEHICLE EQUIPMENT

49-967.  Air bags and air bag systems — Disclosure if inoperable. (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise transfer ownership of a vehicle without giving prior written notice to the purchaser or transferee if the person knows or should reasonably know that any air bag or the air bag system is inoperable.

(2)  The provisions of this section shall apply only to vehicles originally equipped with factory-installed air bags or an air bag system.

(3)  The provisions of this section shall not apply to a vehicle in which a deployed air bag is visible in its deployed condition or to a vehicle from which an air bag has been cut or torn away and that fact is plainly visible.

History:

[49-967, added 2002, ch. 141, sec. 1, p. 393.]