Registry No. 1403-32 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

MOTOR VEHICLE RETAILING 

TRADE 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 3, 1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVEL~ 

WI DO OUR PART 

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE MOTOR VEHICLE RETAILING 

TRADE 

An application having been duly made, pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for my approval of a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Motor Vehicle Retailing Trade, and bearings having been held thereon and the Administrator having rendered his report containing an analysis of the said Code of Fair Competition together with his recommendations and findings with respect 

thereto, and the Administrator having found that the said Code of 

Fair Competition complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions 

of Title I of said Act and that the requirements of clauses (1) and (2) 

of subsection (a) of Section 3 of the said Act have been met: 

Now therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United 

States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and 

otherwise do adopt and approve the report, recommendations, and 

findings of the Administrator and do order that the said Code of Fair 

Competition be and it is hereby approved. 

Approval recommended: 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 

THE WHITE HousE, 

October 3, 1933. 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 

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SEPTEMBER 20, 1933. 

THE PRESIDENT, 

The White House . 

MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have the honor to submit and recommend for your a.pproval the Code of Fair Competition for the Motor 

Vehicle Retailing Trade. The Code has been approved by the 

Industrial Advisory Board, the Labor Advisory Board, and the 

Consumers' Advisory Board. _ An analysis of the provisions of the Code has been made by the 

Administration and a complete report is being transmitted to you. 

I find that the Code complies with the requirements of clauses 1 

and 2, subsection (a) of section 3 of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act. 

I am, my dear Mr. President, 

Very sincerely yours, 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 

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CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE MOTOR VEHICLE 

RETAILING TRADE 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSE 

This Code is adopted for the purpose of increasing employment, 

establishing fair and adequate wages, affecting necessary reduction 

of hours, improving standards of labor, and eliminating unfair trade 

practices to the end of rehabilitating the Motor Vehicle Retail Trade 

and enabling it to do its pa.rt toward establishing that balance of 

trades which is necessary to the restoration and maintenance of t.he 

highest practical degree of public welfare. It is the declared purpose 

of the Motor Vehicle Retail Trade to bring, insofar as may be practicable, 

the rates of wages paid within the Motor Vehicle Retail Trade to such 

levels as are necessary for the creation and maintenance of the highest 

practicable standard of living; to restore the income of enterprises 

within the trade to levels which will make possible the payment of 

such wages and avoid further depletion and destruction of capital 

assets; and from time to time to revise the rates of wages in such 

manner as will currently reflect the equitable adjustment to variations in the cost of living. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

Wherever in this Code, or in any proceeding under or in connection with this Code, the following words or terms are used, they shall 

be deemed and taken to have the meanings ascribed to them as 

follows: 

The word "Dealer" includes, but without limitation, any individual, partnership, association, trust, or corporation engaged in 

whole or in part in the business of motor vehicle retailing. 

The term "Exclusive or Independent Used-Car Dealer" shall 

mean a dealer selling used motor vehicles, who may likewise service 

or repair such used motor vehicles, and who does not hold an authorized new-car dealer's franchise. 

The term "Motor Vehicle Retailing" shall mean the business of 

retailing new or used motor vehicles, and the servicing or repairing 

of new or used motor vehicles by persons engaged in retailing new or 

used motor vehicles. 

The term "Motor Vehicles" as used herein means automobiles, 

including passenger cars, trucks, truck tractors, busses, taxicabs, 

hearses, ambulances, and other commercial vehicles, for use on the 

highway and excluding motorcycles, fire apparatus, and tractors 

other than truck tractors. 

The term "Association" as used herein means National Automobile Dealers Association, a trade association incorporated under the 

laws of Illinois, having its principal office at No. 1010 Pine Street, 

St. Louis, Mo. 

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The term "President" shall mean the President of the United 

States. 

The term "Administrator" shall mean the Administrator appointed 

under Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

The term "Act" shall mean the National Industrial Recovery Act 

of 1933. 

The term "Code" shall mean the Code of Fair Practice of the 

Motor Vehicle Retail Trude. 

The term "Member of the Code" shall mean and include any member of the Motor Vehicle Retailing Trade who shall signify assent 

to this Code. 

AnTICLE III-EMPLOYMENT RrouLATIONS 

A. LABOR 

(1) Employees of the Motor Vehicle Retailing Trade shall have the 

right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of 

their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, 

or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation 

of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted 

activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid 

or protection; 

(2) No employee of the Niotor Vehicle Retailing Trade and no one 

seeking employment shall be required as a conditon of employment to 

join any company union or to refrain from joining, organizing, or 

assisting a labor organization of his own choosing; and 

(3) Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved 

or prescribed by the President. 

B. WAGES AND Houns 

(1) No person under 16 years of age shall be employed in the Motor 

Vehicle Retailing trade, provided, however, that where a State law 

provides a higher minimum age, no person below the age specified by 

such State law shall be employed within that State. 

(2) No employee (except outside commission salesmen and watchmen) shall be employed for more than 44 hours in any 1 week. 

These maximum hours refer to the availability of the employee in 

the shop or premises of the employer at the latter's request, whether 

or not the employee is actively engaged in specific tasks throughout 

these hours. All places of business shall be kept open not less than 

52 hours a week, unless such hours were less than 52 hours per week 

before July 1, 1933, and in which case such hours shall not be reduced 

at all. 

(3) The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraph (2) shall 

not apply to salaried em:ployees in a managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity who receive $30 per week or more. 

(4) Not to pay any employees, except as hereinbelow provided, less 

than $15 per week in any city of over 500,000 populat10n, or in the 

immediate trade area of such city; nor less than $14.50 per week in any 

city of batween 250,000 and 500,000 population, or ill the immediate 

trade area of such city; nor less than $14 per week in any city of 

between 2,500 and 250,000 population, or in the immediate trade area 
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of such city; nor less than $13 per week in towns of 2,500 or less, 

except that one washer or gre~,~er or porter or helper or aged or physically handicapped worker may be employed at less than $13 per 

week in such establishment; a.nd except that in establishments employing more than 19 employees, the number of such employees who are 

paid less than $13 per week may eqnal but not exceed 10 percent of 

the total number of employees in any such establishment; and provided further that no employee shall be paid less than $13 per week, 

who was not receiving less than this wage on August 1, 1933; and 

provided further that the wages of any employee receiving less than 

$13 per week shall be increased by at least 20 percent, despite his 

shortened hours, provided, however, that no employer is required 

to raise the wages of any such employee above $13 per week. 

(5) Full-time outside salesmen, who are unrestricted as to hours and 

receive remuneration on a co1nmission basis, shall be guaranteed a 

drawing account of not less than $17 .50 a week in any city of over 

500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor 

less than $15 per week in any city between 250,000 and 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor less than $12.50 

per week in any city betwen 2,500 and 250,000 population, or in the 

immediate trade area of such city; and in towns of less than 2,500 

population all salesmen shall be guaranteed not less than $10 per week. 

An apprentice salesman is excepted from this guaranty until he 

has served at least 3 months-2 months of which must he served with 

employer last employing him. Such apprentices shall be limited to 

1 for each 10 regular salesmen, or fraction thereof. 

Population and trade area for the pμrpose of this article shall be 

determined by reference to the 1930 Federal census; except that the 

Emergency National Committee with · the approval of the Administrator shall have the power to alter trade areas. 

(6) No mechanic employed in this trade shall be paid less than 

50 cents per hour unless the hourly rate for the same class of work on 

July 15, 1929, was less than 50 cents per hour, in which latter case 

such mechanic shall be paid not less than the hourly rate of July 15, 

1929, and in no event less than 40 cents per hour. The weekly minimum wages established in paragraph (4) above, shall also apply to 

the mechanics covered by this paragraph (6). 

(7) Paragraph (4) and paragraph (6) establish guaranteed minimum 

wages regardless of whether the employee is compensated on tl:e 

basis of a time rate or a flat rate performance or otherwise. 

(8) No dealer shall reduce the compensation for employment now 

in excess of the minimum wages hereby provided (notwithstanding 

that the hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) 

and each dealer shall rncrease the pay for such ernployment by an 

equitable readjustment of all pay schedules. 

(9) No dealer shall use any subterfuge to frustrate the spirit and 

intent of this Code, which is, among other things, to increase employment, to remove obstructions to commerce, and to shorten hours 

and to raise minimum wages for the shorter week to a living basis. 

(10) No dealer shall increase the price of any merchandise sold 

af!,er the date hereof over the price on July 1, 1933, by more than is 

made necessary by actual increases in wages, or invoice costs of merchandise, or by taxes, since July 1, 1933, and in setting such price 

increases each dealer shall give full weight to probable increases in 
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sales volume and to refrain from taking profiteering advantage of 

the consuming public. 

(11) The maximum hours herein above provided mark the total 

number of hours which may be worked by any employee; whether 

he works for one or more employers; provided, however, that if any 

employee works more than such aggregate ma1..wum without the 

knowledge or connivance of any one of his employers, such employer 

shall not be deemed to have violated this paragraph. 

(12) No employee shall be classified in any of the excepted classes 

bereinabove, unless such employee performs duties identical with 

those performed by employees thus classified on June 1_6, 1933. 

ARTICLE IV-TRADE REGULATIONS 

The provisions of this section will cover the following products: 

Passenger cars, trucks, and commercial vehicles with bodies of %-ton 

capacity and less, or such other capacity limitation as may be deemed 

proper by the Administrator. 

A. USED CAR ALLOWANCE 

In an effort to prevent sales below cost, heretofore due to unfair 

competition that has resulted in the dissipation of the large part of 

the capital originally in this trade and has accumulated large losses 

since 1926, this trade agrees to regulate itself so as to return profit 

possibilities and support increased wages and shortened hours. 

Giving consideration to the public interest mid to prevent sales 

below cost, it is hereby provided: 

(1) That the value of any model of used motor vehicle, either 

passenger or commercial, shall be the average price that the public 

in any given market area is then paying for such vehicle as ascertained 

by the Association from sworn statements of all actual retail sales to 

consumers, subject to the approval of the Administrator. The 

Association shall publish the average prices thus ascertained approximately e-\"'ery 60 days. In order to insure fair average value in the 

interest of the consumer, published averages shall be computed for 

the preceding period and there shall not be included in computing 

such average that 20 percent of sales which represented the lowest 

sales of all actual sales reported in the previous period. 

(2) That no dealer shall, directly or indirectly, or by subterfuge, 

accept in trade any used vehicle at an allowance price of more than its 

value as ascertained in paragraph (1) above, less a minimum selling, 

handling, and reconditioning charge, a.ccording to the following 

schedule: 

(a) Five percent of the allowance price as determined in paragraph (1) above, on (x) the current series model, or (y) the preceding series model. 

(b) Ten percent of the al1owance price as determined in paragraph (1) above on the model preceding, the two models described in paragraph (2) subsection (a) above, namely (x) and (y). 

(c) Fifteen percent of the allowance price as determined in 

paragraph (1) above, on all models other than the three models 

described in subsections (a) and (b) above. 

(3) To provide a record for the establishment of used-car allowances 

in paragraph (1) above, there shall be provided in each logical trading 
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area of the United States an Official Guide, which shall be provided 

by the Association which shall be known as the Association Official 

Guide and shall be recognized as the authority for such allowances, 

and which shall be based upon actual sales in each trading area for the 

period of approximately 60 days preceding the date on which the compilation of the official guide is started, as hereinabove provided. 

(4) There shall be used as a basis of establishing allowance values, 

as provided in paragraphs (1) and (2) above, the principle of averaging 

actual sales at retail to consumer for the preceding period. Since this 

will, in isolated instances, by reason of very few or no sales on particular models, leave a need to establish a guide figure on such models,_ the following metbod of determining the allowance values will be 

pursued for the public protection, namely. 

(a) If any model of motor vehicle described in the Official 

Guide shows five or more sales at retail to consumer within the 

district in any period, then the average figure published becomes 

the maximum allowance for the ensuing period. 

(b) If any model of motor vehicle has less than five sales at 

retail to consumer within the district for the period then the newcar dealers handling this particular make car within this district 

shall establish its allowance value, the same to be so published 

in the report. Thes·e figures to be subject to approval of the 

Advisory State Committee and the Administrator. (c) If any make or model or motor vehicle is not represented 

in the district or is no longer manufactured and less than five 

sales at retail to consumer are reported on each or any model of 

such car, then the Advisory State Committee, subject to the 

approval of the Administrator, will set the figure based on what 

like models of other makes sell for in the district. 

(5) No retailer shall use advertising, whether printed, radio, display or of any other nature, which is inaccurate in any material particular or misrepresents merchandise (including its use, trade-mark, 

grade, quality, quantity, size, origin, 1naterial, content, or v.reparation or credit terms, values, policies, or services; and no retailer shall 

use advertising and/or selling methods which tend to deceive or 1nislead the customer. 

(6) No retailer shall use advertising which refers inaccurately in 

any material particular to any competitor or his merchandise, prices, 

values, credit terms, policies, or services. 

Fair tr~de practice rules for other products of this Code will bo 

covered in the supplemental Code of Fair Trade Practices to be 

submitted. 

B. MARKETING RULES 

The following Marketing Rules shall take effect 30 days after the 

approval by the President: 

( 1) No dealer shall sell a new car at retail to a consumer for less 

than factory list prices, plus an amount equal to-

(a) Equipment at listed prices. 

(b) All taxes paid by dealer applicable to the motor vehicle 

sold. 

(c) Average cost of transportation from factory of said dealer 

or shipments received by said dealer during a 60-day period as 

shown by sworn statement of said dealer. 
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(d) Dealer's rrctual cost of handling (including such items as 

(w) unloading, (x) assembling, (y) conditioning for delivery, and 

(z) interest actually paid by said dealer, but not to exceed 90 

days on cost of transportation). 

The only exceptions to these prices sh all be sales to proprietors' 

immediate families or members of his organization when for the 

personal use of such buyer. Motor vehicles sold to employees for 

use in their employer's business as demonstrators or executives' cars, 

and cars used as demonstrators by dealers, must be so registered with 

their trade association, or with the State Advisory Committee; 

demonstrators and executive cars shall not be sold to a consumer at ·retail for less than the full retail price except when· they have been in 

use for a period of at least 60 days from the date of registration, as 

aforesaid, and have had at least 3,500 mil~s actual road usage, or when 

the manufacturers has made public announcement of a change in 

model. 

(2) No dealer or representative shall offer or give any discount, 

gratuity, commission, service or accessory, to a customer or his 

agent, for the purpose of inducing the customer or his agent, to purchase a cur. Nothing herein shall prevent conduct pursuant to any 

warranty of the manufacturer. 

(3) Charges for financing retail conditional sales shall be upon an 

equitable basis to consumer and dealer. No dealer in financing conditional retail sales shall charge a lower rate than the lowest or a 

higher rate than the rughest rate charged by regularly established 

finance companies operating in the same district as the dealer. 

(4) With the approval of the State Advisory Committee and the 

manufacturer concerned, a dealer will be permitted to sell and offer 

for sale, new cars that have been discontinued or are about to be 

discontinued at less than delivered prices as described in the first 

paragraph of this section. The intent of this provision is to enable 

dealers to dispose of their own or their factories stock. In the event 

that approval is refused, or that no action is taken within 10 days by 

the said Committee or the manufacturer, said dealer shall have right 

of appeal, to the Administrator, whose decision shall be final. 

(5) With the approval of the State Advisory Committee and the 

manufacturer concerned, the dealer may sell or offer for sale, any 

open type of new car at less than delivered price, as described in the 

first paragraph of this section, provided the dealer will present a 

sworn statement showing that such car has been included in said 

dealer's inventory for a period of not less than 45 days. The intent 

of this provision is to enable a dealer to dispose of a type of car which 

is or may shortly become difficult to sell because of a change in 

seasons. In the event that approval is refused or that no action is 

taken within 10 days by the said committee or the manufacturer, 

said dealer shall have right of appeal to the Administrator, whose 

decision shall be final. 

(6) It shall be an unfair trade practice for any new car dealer or 

representative to sell or permit to be sold any new 1notor vehicle for 

resale in a territory already enfranchised for that make of motor 

vehicle except through a regularly enfranchised dealer in that territory and it shall also be an unfair trade practice for any dealer to 

purchase a vehicle as above prohibited. 
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_. (7) The retail list pr,ice for parts, accessories, ~nd supplies will be 

the manufactur·ers' published list price adjusted to include all taxes. 

It shall; be an unfair trade practice for any de~ler to sell such parts, 

accessories, and supplies at other th_an retail list price, except to duly 

authorized dealers, associate or _ s-q.b-dealers, or established service 

stations, operating under ::.any NRA Code. 

(8) A dealer shall on delivery of a new car from the manufacturer, 

inspect and ascertain that the speedometer on the new car is connected 

before using _the car for any. purpose. A dealer shall not disconnect 

the speedometer or perm~t it to pe disconnected . . The purpose of this 

provision is to insure the customer having full knowledge of the 

mileage traveled by the motor vehicle which is offered for retail sale. 

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C. Tn.ADE PRACTICE RULES 

The Emerge'ricy National Committee shall hold ·a trade practice 

conference as of ten as may be necessary for the purpose of making 

recommendations to the Administrator in regard "to the establishment 

and amending of rules of fair trade practice for the Trade. 

ARTICLE V-DrsTRrcTs o'F THE INDUSTRY 

A. For the purpose of the administration of this Code, there shall 

be in each State an advisory committee consisting of not less than 

five, one of whom shall be elected from the exclusive or independent 

used car dealers, elected by the dealers of such State, in convention 

or by mail vote. The chairman of each State Advisory Committee 

shall be a member of the Emergency National Committee. The 

Vice Chairman of each State Advisory Committee shall be an alternate 

member of the Emergency National Committee. 

Each such State Advisory Committee shall constitute the fair 

practice and planning agency to cooperate with the Administrator in 

respect to problems relating exclusively to the said State. Proposals 

in respect to matters affecting more than one State may be initiated 

by any State Advisory Committee and shall be submitted for con- sideration to the Emergency National Comn1ittee of the motor vehicle 

retailing trade hereinafter described and its determination, subject to 

the approval of the Administrator, shall be binding upon said State 

and all other States affected thereby. For the 1rnrpose of the administration of this Code, the District of Columbia, Metropolitan New 

York, and the rest of New York, Metropolitan Chicago, and the rest 

of Illinois, shall each be considered one State. 

States may be divided or rearranged upon application of any 

association or group of associations subject to the approval of the 

Emergency National Committee hereinafter described. 

B. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES 

Each of the present component associations making up each State 

Group and any others which may subsequently be formed within the 

Motor Vehicle Retailing trade shall set up Executive Committees for 

the purpose of assisting in administration of the provisions of the Code, 

to secure adherence thereto, to hear and adjust complaints, to consider proposals for amendments thereof and cxc(3ptions thereto, and 

otherwise to carry out within the component associations by coopera-
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tion through the State Advisory Committee the purposes of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act as set forth in this Code. Any 

decisicm of the Committee shall be subject to final appeal to the 

Administrator. No inequitable restrictions upon membership in any 

such association shall at any time be imposed. 

ARTICLE VI-EMERGENCY NATIONAL COMMITTEE 

A. REPRESENTATION 

There shall be an ·Emergency National Committee of the Motor 

Vehicle Retailing Trade composed of the Chairman of each State 

Advisory Committee and five additional members, who shall be members of some State Advisory Committee, elected at large by the exclusive or independent used car dealers. 

B. POWERS 

The Emergency National Committee shall be the general planning 

and coordinating agency for the industry. Its members selected 

as aforesaid shall be empowered to act for their respective State 

Advisory Committees conclusively in respect to all matters before the 

National Committee for consideration and within its jurisdiction. 

The Chairman of the Emergency National Committee shall appoint 

fourteen members, three of whom shall be exclusive used car dealers to 

be called the Administrative Committee. ·such appointments are to 

be approved by a majority of the members of the Emergency National 

Committee, and to insure balanced representation of all classes of 

dealers must include dealers· from smaller towns, and dealers ~eographically representative of the Nation, as well as the various lines 

of cars and with consideration of the appointee's availability and 

willingness to serve. 

The Eniergency National Committee shall delegate its power to 

the smaller body to be exercised as necessary to problems requiring 

attention between meetings of the National body. 

The Emergency National Committee shall have powers and duties 

as provided herein, and in addition thereto it shall, 

(1) From time to time require such reports from state associations 

and component associations, or from local associations, or from individual dealers, as in its judgment, subject to the approval of the 

Administrator, may be necessary to advise it adequately of the 

administration and enforcement of the provisions of this code: 

(2 ) Upon complaint of interested parties or upon its own initiative 

make such inquiry and investigation into the operation of the Code 

us may be necessary, and report its findings to the Administrator, and 

(3) Make rules and regulations necessary for financing the adminis- tration and enforcement of this Code, subject to the approval of the 

Administrator. The Committee may delegate any of its authority 

to the National Control Committee hereinafter provided and may 

designate such agents as it shall determine. 

ARTICLE VII-STATISTICS 

The National Automobile Dealers Association will serve as a medium 

through which all required statistics will be obtained, and each 

member of the Code shall upon request furnish it with a sworn state-
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ment of such information and make his books available to the 

National Automobile Dealers Association, to the end that the terms 

of this Code regarding increase of wages, shortening of hours, and the 

establishment of fair used-car allowance, based upon all actual sales 

and the maintenance of established prices, may constantly be available 

to the Administrator. 

ARTICLE VIII-NATIONAL CONTROL COMMITTEE 

The Emerg~ncy National Committee of the motor vehicle retailing 

trade shall appoint from its own membership a National Control 

Committee of 4 members, 1 of whom shall be an exclusive used car 

dealer. In addition, there may be two nonvoting me1nbers appointed 

by the Administrator. The National Control Committee shall exer~ 

cise such authority as may be delegated to it by the said Emergency 

National Committee. All communications and conferences of the 

motor vehicle retailing trade with the President or with his agents 

concerning the approval or amendment of this Code or of any of its 

provisions or any matters relating thereto, shall be through the said 

National Control Committee. The National Contr-01 Committee 

shall serve as an executive ag·ency for the Emergency National" Committee of the motor vehicle retailing trade and shall be charged with 

the execution of the duties, through agents ·or otherwise, of hearing 

and adjusting complaints, considering proposals for amendments and 

making recommendations thereon, approving recommendations, for 

exceptions to ·the provisions of this Code, and otherwise administering its provisions. Any member of this Trade shall have the right of 

appeal to the Emergency National Committee from decisions of the 

National Control Committee and the decisions of the said Emergency 

National Committee may be appealed from, to the Administrator 

whose decision will be final. The function of this c01nmittee shall 

be the general planning and coordinating for the motor vehicle retail 

trade and the cooperation with similar boards of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and other branches of the industry to 

the end of effecting a balanced national economy. 

ARTICLE IX-GENERAL 

(1) No provision in this Code shall be interpreted or applied m 

such a manner as to: 

(a) Promote monopolies 

(b) Permit or encourage unfair competition 

(c) Eliminate or oppress enterprises, or 

(d) Discriminate against small enterprises. 

(2) This Code is hereby expressly made subject to the right of the 

President, pursuant to Section 10 (b) of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, from time to time, to cancel or modify any order, 

approval, license, rule, or regulation issued under Title I of said Act, 

and particularly, but without limitations, to cancel or modify his 

approval of this Code or any condition imposed by hin1 upon such 

approval. 

(3) The Emergency National Committee of the motor vehicle 

retailing trade and the National Control Committee shall from time 

to time make to the Ad1ninistrator such recommendation, including 
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amendments of the Code, as in their judgment will ·aid the effective 

administration of this Code, or may be necessary to effectuate within 

the motor vehicle retailing trade or within any subdivision thereof 

the purpose of the Act is administered. 

(4) Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required to be 

included therein by the Act, may, with the approval of the President, 

be modified or eliminated as changes in circumstances or experience 

may indicate. It is contemplated that from time to time supplementary provisions to this Code or Codes, including in particular, 

but without limitations, supplementary provisions rela_ting to dealers 

engaged exclusively in servicing or repairing, will be submitted for the 

approval of the President to prevent unfair competition in price and 

other unfair and destructive competitive practices and to effectuate 

the other purposes and policies of Title I of the Act consistent with 

the provis10ns thereof. 

(5) Violation by any dealer of the motor vehicle retailing trade or 

any provisions of this Code, or of any approved rule issued thereunder, 

is an unfair method of com.petition. 

(6) If any employer in this industry is also an employer in any 

other industry, the provisions of this Code shall apply to and affect 

only that pnrt of tho business of such employer which is a part of the 

trade covered by this Code. 

(7) This Code shall become effective upon its approval by the 

President, except as herein specifically provided. 

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