Pennsylvania Dealers Required to Disclose Safety Recalls

Dealers in Pennsylvania are required to provide notice of open or unremedied safety recalls to customers at the time of sale of the vehicle, pursuant to Pennsylvania Act 59 of 2018 . Dealers have been complying with this law since it went into effect on August 27, 2018 .

This article is intended to provide clarification and additional information in response to questions from our Members about the Act 59 of 2018 safety disclosure notice law . Providing a safety disclosure notice was already an established best practice in the industry utilized by most of our dealers prior to it becoming a legal requirement .

SAFETY RECALL DISCLOSURE NOTICE REQUIREMENT

Pursuant to Act 59, dealers are required to provide notice of open or unremedied safety recalls to customers at the time of sale of the vehicle .

SAFERCAR.GOV DISCLOSURE NOTICE METHOD

The Safe harbor way to do this is to provide the safercar .gov notice by placing the 17 digit VIN and printing the results . The problem we have been notified of is that this may require as many as 10 pages for a printout, plus another 10 pages to keep in your records . However, by using the safercar . gov recall information, dealers are automatically in compliance with the law .

DMS AND VHI VENDORS DISCLOSURE NOTICE METHOD

There are other ways the dealers may choose to comply, such as using by the safety recall information from your selected vehicle history report information (VHI) company or document management system (DMS) company . This information can typically be placed on one or two pages by the vehicle history report vendor instead of 10 pages .

CONCLUSIONS

It is recommended that you consult with your VHI vendor and your DMS vendor regarding obtaining safety recall notice information to provide to your customer at the time of sale . You will want assurance that the information provided by the DMS vendor or VHI vendor is as updated or more updated than what is listed on the safercar .gov website . 3