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- Massachusetts General Laws - Meeting vehicles - Chapter 89, Section 1
When persons traveling with vehicles meet on a way, each shall reasonably drive his vehicle to the right of the middle of the traveled part...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Passing vehicle traveling in same direction - Chapter 89, Section 2
[ First paragraph effective until April 15, 2009. For text effective April 15, 2009, see below.]Except as herein otherwise provided, the driver of a vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sleigh or sled; bells - Chapter 89, Section 3
No person shall travel on a way with a sleigh or sled drawn by a horse, unless there are at least three bells attached to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Keeping to right while view obstructed - Chapter 89, Section 4
Whenever on any way, public or private, there is not an unobstructed view of the road for at least four hundred feet, the driver of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Driving vehicles in a single lane; motorcycles, riding and passing - Chapter 89, Section 4A
When any way has been divided into lanes, the driver of a vehicle shall so drive that the vehicle shall be entirely within a single...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Driving in lane nearest right side of way - Chapter 89, Section 4B
Upon all ways the driver of a vehicle shall drive in the lane nearest the right side of the way when such lane is available...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Heavy trucks; driving in right-hand lane on multi-lane highways - Chapter 89, Section 4C
On any highway with more than one passing lane in the same direction, heavy commercial vehicles, except buses, shall be restricted in ordinary operation to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty; exceptions - Chapter 89, Section 5
Whoever violates any of the provisions of sections one to four C, inclusive, except as otherwise provided herein, shall, upon complaint made within three months...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of rules of road to street railway cars - Chapter 89, Section 6
In construing rules, by-laws and regulations concerning the use and operation of vehicles on ways, street railway cars or other cars moving upon rails shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stopping of street railway cars for passage of fire apparatus - Chapter 89, Section 6A
Every motorman of a car upon a street railway shall, upon the approach of any fire apparatus going to a fire or responding to an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Right of way of fire engines, patrol vehicles and ambulances; penalty - Chapter 89, Section 7
The members and apparatus of a fire department while going to a fire or responding to an alarm, police patrol vehicles and ambulances, and ambulances...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on use of ways upon approach of emergency vehicles - Chapter 89, Section 7A
Upon the approach of any fire apparatus, police vehicle, ambulance or disaster vehicle which is going to a fire or responding to call, alarm or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of emergency vehicles - Chapter 89, Section 7B
The driver of a vehicle of a fire, police or recognized protective department and the driver of an ambulance shall be subject to the provisions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Right-of-way at intersecting ways; turning on red signals - Chapter 89, Section 8
When two vehicles approach or enter an intersection of any ways, as defined in section one of chapter ninety, at approximately the same instant, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of highways as through ways; erection and maintenance of stop and yield signs and other traffic control devices; obedience to traffic control signs and devices; penalties - Chapter 89, Section 9
The department of highways may designate any state highway or part thereof as a through way and may designate intersections or other roadway junctions with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of one-way traffic; civil liability - Chapter 89, Section 10
The violation by the operator or driver of a motor or other vehicle of any rule, regulation, ordinance or by-law limiting traffic on any specified...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marked crosswalks; yielding right of way to pedestrians; penalty - Chapter 89, Section 11
When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down...
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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