Title 16—Commercial Practices--Volume 1
PART 1420—REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL TERRAIN VEHICLES
§ 1420.1   Scope and application.
This part, a consumer product safety standard, prescribes requirements for all-terrain vehicles.
§ 1420.2   Definitions.
In addition to the definitions in section 3 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052), the following definitions apply for purposes of this Part 1420.
(a) All terrain vehicle or ATV means:
(1) Any motorized, off-highway vehicle designed to travel on 3 or 4 wheels, having a seat designed to be straddled by the operator and handlebars for steering control; but
(2) Does not include a prototype of a motorized, off-highway, all-terrain vehicle that is intended exclusively for research and development purposes unless the vehicle is offered for sale.
(b) ATV action plan means a written plan or letter of undertaking that describes actions the manufacturer or distributor agrees to take to promote ATV safety, including rider training, dissemination of safety information, age recommendations, other policies governing marketing and sale of the ATVs, the monitoring of such sales, and other safety related measures, and that is substantially similar to the plans described under the heading “The Undertakings of the Companies” in the Commission Notice published in the Federal Register on September 9, 1998 (63 FR 48199-48204).
§ 1420.3   Requirements for four-wheel ATV's
(a) Each new assembled or unassembled ATV manufactured before January 1, 2025, shall comply with all applicable provisions of the American National Standard for Four-Wheel All-Terrain Vehicles (ANSI/SVIA 1-2017), ANSI-approved on June 8, 2017. Each new assembled or unassembled ATV manufactured on or after January 1, 2025, shall comply with all applicable provisions of the American National Standard for Four-Wheel All-Terrain Vehicles ANSI-approved on March 17, 2023 (ANSI/SVIA 1-2023), with the exception of Section 4.21 Owner's Manual, as to which it shall continue to comply with the ANSI/SVIA 1-2017 standard. ANSI/SVIA 1-2017 and ANSI/SVIA 1-2023 are incorporated by reference into this section with the approval of the Director of the Federal Register under 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. This material is available for inspection at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Contact the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission at: Office of the Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, telephone: (301) 504-7479. For information on the availability of this material at NARA, email: fr.inspection@nara.gov, or go to: www.archives.gov/federal-register/cfr/ibr-locations.html. The material may be obtained from the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America, 2 Jenner, Suite 150, Irvine, CA 92618-3806; telephone: 949-727-3727; www.svia.org. In addition, a read-only copy of ANSI/SVIA 1-2023 is available for viewing on the SVIA website at https://svia.org/ansi-svia-1-2023/.
(b) Each ATV must be subject to an ATV action plan filed with the Commission before August 14, 2008 or subsequently filed with and approved by the Commission, and shall bear a label certifying such compliance and identifying the manufacturer, importer or private labeler and the ATV action plan to which it is subject.
(c) The ATV manufacturer or distributor shall be in compliance with all provisions of the applicable ATV action plan.
§ 1420.4   Restrictions on three-wheel ATVs.
Until a mandatory consumer product safety standard applicable to three-wheel ATVs promulgated pursuant to the Consumer Product Safety Act is in effect, new three wheel ATVs may not be imported into or distributed in commerce in the United States.