TITLE XXXI
TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 358-D
REGULATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE REPAIR FACILITIES

Section 358-D:11-a

    358-D:11-a Sale, Purchase, and Installation of Airbags; Criminal Penalty Established. –
I. Any person who knowingly manufactures, imports, sells, offers for sale, purchases, installs, or reinstalls any object intended to replace a supplemental restraint system component as part of a vehicle inflatable restraint system, and said object is not a properly operating airbag that was designed in accordance with federal safety regulations for the make, model, and year of the vehicle, including a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component or a nonfunctional airbag, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
II. Any person who knowingly and intentionally sells, installs, or reinstalls a device that causes a motor vehicle's diagnostic system to fail to warn when the motor vehicle is equipped with a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component or a nonfunctional airbag or when no airbag is installed shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

Source. 2003, 297:1, eff. Sept. 16, 2003. 2020, 33:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.