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- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 90, Section 1
The following words used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of motor vehicles; liability insurance, certificate accompanying application, failure to maintain; revocation of certificate of registration; exemptions; school buses - Chapter 90, Section 1A
[ First paragraph effective until August 8, 2008. For text effective August 8, 2008, see below.]No motor vehicle or trailer, except one owned by a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorized bicycles; operation regulations - Chapter 90, Section 1B
A motorized bicycle shall not be operated upon any way, as defined in section one within the commonwealth by any person under sixteen years of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorized bicycles; compliance with federal standards - Chapter 90, Section 1C
Motorized bicycles and motorized scooters shall comply with all applicable federal motor vehicle safety standards.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorized bicycles; sales; number sticker or plate - Chapter 90, Section 1D
Any person who is engaged in the business of buying or selling bicycles or motorized bicycles shall, upon the sale of such motorized bicycle, affix...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorized scooters; operation regulations - Chapter 90, Section 1E
A motorized scooter shall not be operated on any way by a person not possessing a valid driver’s license or learner’s permit, nor at a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Low-speed motor vehicles; express state highway and public way restrictions; additional municipality restrictions - Chapter 90, Section 1F
[ Text of section added by 2008, 523, Sec. 3 effective July 31, 2009. See 2008, 523, Sec. 7.]Every person lawfully operating a low-speed motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of disclosure required upon sale, lease or rental of low-speed motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 1G
[ Text of section added by 2008, 523, Sec. 3 effective July 31, 2009. See 2008, 523, Sec. 7.]Every licensed motor vehicle dealer and every...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of motor vehicles designed for operation on public ways but not capable of exceeding 40 miles per hour - Chapter 90, Section 1H
[ Text of section added by 2008, 523, Sec. 3 effective July 31, 2009. See 2008, 523, Sec. 7.]In addition to the types of vehicles...
- Massachusetts General Laws - . 3-wheeled motor vehicle registered as motorcycle; qualification - Chapter 90, Section 1I
[ Text of section added by 2008, 523, Sec. 3 effective July 31, 2009. See 2008, 523, Sec. 7.] Section 1I . Notwithstanding the definition of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minors, application for registration of motor vehicle or trailer - Chapter 90, Section 2A
An application for the registration of a motor vehicle or trailer owned by a minor shall, if not made by the minor, be made by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of registration upon transfer of ownership - Chapter 90, Section 2B
The owner of a motor vehicle who transfers the ownership thereof to another or who terminates the registration thereof shall thereupon remove from the vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 925, Sec. 11 - Chapter 90, Section 2C
Chapter 90: Section 2C. Repealed, 1973, 925, Sec. 11
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary registration plates - Chapter 90, Section 2D
The registrar is hereby authorized and empowered to design, issue and regulate the use of temporary registration plates. Such temporary plates may be issued to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Distinctive registration plates; submission of applications; eligible organizations - Chapter 90, Section 2F
Section 2E. (a) The registrar shall furnish, upon application, to the owners of private passenger motor vehicles three distinctive registration plates, one of which shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of motor vehicles owned by non-residents; limitation; liability insurance; vehicles used in connection with place of business; suspension or revocation of right to operate vehicle; registration - Chapter 90, Section 3
Subject to the provisions of section three A and except as otherwise provided in this section and in section ten, a motor vehicle or trailer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - 1/2 Commonwealth residency factors; access to information in nonpublic records; certification of facts; motor vehicle registration misrepresentations; penalties and fines - Chapter 90, Section 3
Section 31/2. (a) Any person claiming to be a nonresident for purposes of section 3, shall be deemed to be a resident of the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of registrar as attorney as result of acceptance of rights and privileges of sec. 3 by non-resident - Chapter 90, Section 3A
The acceptance by a person who is a resident of any other state or country of the rights and privileges conferred by section three, as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of registrar as attorney as result of operation of motor vehicle by any person - Chapter 90, Section 3B
The operation by any person, by himself or his agent, of any motor vehicle or trailer, whether registered or unregistered, and with or without a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of process; notice of service; continuance - Chapter 90, Section 3C
Service of process under section three A or three B shall be made by leaving a copy of the process with a fee to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of registrar as result of application for registration or license to operate motor vehicle; service of process on registrar - Chapter 90, Section 3D
Application for registration of a motor vehicle or trailer or for a license to operate motor vehicles shall constitute and irrevocably appoint, in case the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fee paid to registrar; records of registrar - Chapter 90, Section 3E
The fee paid by the plaintiff under section three C or three D to the registrar at the time of the service shall be taxed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Separability of secs. 3A—3E; effect of unconstitutionality - Chapter 90, Section 3F
The provisions of sections three A to three E, inclusive, shall be separable, and if any such provision shall be held to be unconstitutional, such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Security from nonresidents for damage caused by operation of motor vehicles; procedure; contents of motion - Chapter 90, Section 3G
In a civil action against a non-resident for damage to property or for the death of or bodily injury to any person resulting from an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1931, 142, Sec. 3 - Chapter 90, Section 4
Chapter 90: Section 4. Repealed, 1931, 142, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - General registrations; general registration number plates; eligibility - Chapter 90, Section 5
(a) The registrar may issue general registrations and general registration number plates in such form as he determines to any person engaged in the following...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application for general distinguishing mark for motor vehicles under control of military forces of commonwealth - Chapter 90, Section 5A
The adjutant general, in behalf of the military forces of the commonwealth, may make application, in such form and containing such information as the registrar...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons in military service; vehicles purchased in another state; registration - Chapter 90, Section 5B
Subject to the provisions of section three B a motor vehicle owned by a resident serving in the military service of the United States which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Display of number plates; temporary number plates - Chapter 90, Section 6
Every motor vehicle or trailer registered under this chapter when operated in or on any way in this commonwealth shall have its register number displayed...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Number plates for antique motor cars - Chapter 90, Section 6A
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, number or registration plates of such size and design as may be determined in the discretion of the registrar...
- Massachusetts General Laws - One number plate; display - Chapter 90, Section 6B
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the registrar may issue but one number plate, instead of two, for certain motor vehicles or for all motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return of number plates by repossessor; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 6C
Any person who takes possession of a motor vehicle by foreclosure or subrogation of title shall return the number plates issued for such vehicle to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Brakes, braking systems, mufflers, horns, lights, audible warning systems, and other equipment; compliance with safety standards; stickers and emblems - Chapter 90, Section 7
Every motor vehicle operated in or upon any way shall be provided with brakes adequate to control the movement of such vehicle and conforming to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations for periodic inspections of motor vehicles; school buses; fees - Chapter 90, Section 7A
[ First paragraph effective until July 31, 2009. For text effective July 31, 2009, see below.]The registrar shall establish rules and regulations providing for a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Equipment and operation of school buses - Chapter 90, Section 7B
No person shall operate any school bus, and the owner or custodian of a school bus shall not permit the same to be operated upon...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minimum standards for construction and equipment of school buses - Chapter 90, Section 7C
The registrar, after a public hearing, may make, alter, rescind or add to rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for construction and equipment of school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of sec. 7B; additional equipment - Chapter 90, Section 7D
The requirements of clauses (1), (2), (3), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (13) and (16) of section seven B shall apply to any motor vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of vocational school students; motor vehicle requirements; seat belts - Chapter 90, Section 7D 1/2
Section 7D1/2. The requirements of clauses (1), (3), (5), (8), (9), (10), (13), (15), and (16) of section seven B shall apply to any motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Display of red or blue lights on vehicles; permits; revocation; violations - Chapter 90, Section 7E
No motor vehicle operated pursuant to section seven other than fire apparatus, ambulances, school buses, vehicles specified in section seven D used for transporting school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1973, 948, Sec. 5 - Chapter 90, Section 7F
Chapter 90: Section 7F. Repealed, 1973, 948, Sec. 5
- Massachusetts General Laws - Used brake drums; servicing, sale or grinding; prohibition - Chapter 90, Section 7G
No person shall service, install, give away, or sell or offer for sale, for use on a passenger motor vehicle, a used brake drum the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Brake linings; minimum safety standards - Chapter 90, Section 7H
No person shall sell, offer for sale, distribute or install brake linings for use on motor vehicles unless they are of a type and specification...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Emergency disaster service vehicles of charitable corporations; identification and equipment - Chapter 90, Section 7I
Special purpose motor vehicles and trailers, the property of and registered to charitable corporations, specifically assigned to the emergency disaster services of those organizations, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Handlebars on motorcycles; rules and regulations; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 7J
The registrar, after a hearing, may make, amend or rescind, rules and regulations relative to handlebars on motorcycles operated in the commonwealth. A copy of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tires; minimum safety standards; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 7K
No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell any tire which has been manufactured after...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Standing in school buses; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 7L
Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (2) of section seven B, in any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, the operator of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Retread or recapped tires; sale; marking quality - Chapter 90, Section 7M
No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, have in his possession with intent to sell, or give away, for use on any motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Voiding contracts of sale - Chapter 90, Section 7N
Notwithstanding any disclaimer of warranty, a motor vehicle contract of sale may be voided by the buyer if the motor vehicle fails to pass, within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Express warranty by dealer of used motor vehicle; issuance; consumer's rights and remedies - Chapter 90, Section 7N 1/4
Section 7N1/4. (1) For the purposes of this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Business day”, Monday to Friday, inclusive, except for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicle pollutant control devices; removal - Chapter 90, Section 7O
No person shall remove or render inoperative, except temporarily for maintenance purposes, any device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Height of motor vehicles; alteration restricted - Chapter 90, Section 7P
No person shall alter, modify or change the height of a motor vehicle with an original manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating of up to and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tire tread depth regulations; compliance; operation of vehicle prohibited - Chapter 90, Section 7Q
No person, knowing that any tire of a motor vehicle fails to comply with regulations promulgated by the registrar relative to the minimum standards for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicle identification number; display in certain motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 7R
All motor vehicles, and all trailer and semi-trailers manufactured for the model year nineteen hundred and seventy-nine and thereafter and registered under the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dealers insignias, logos or plates; placement on motor vehicles; consent - Chapter 90, Section 7R 1/2
Section 7R1/2. No seller, or an agent or employee of a seller, of motor vehicles shall place on a motor vehicle an insignia, logo or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorcycle sound emissions; definitions - Chapter 90, Section 7S
The following words used in this section twenty-four A to twenty-four C, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires shall have the following meanings:— “A-weighted sound...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorcycle sound levels; testing regulations - Chapter 90, Section 7T
The registrar shall adopt regulations establishing test procedures and instrumentation to be utilized for measuring sound levels of in-use vehicles. Such regulation shall include site...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motorcycles; maximum sound levels - Chapter 90, Section 7U
No person shall operate a motorcycle intended for use on the highways of the commonwealth and registered under the provisions of section two of chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of inspection; rules and regulations - Chapter 90, Section 7V
The registrar shall establish rules and regulations for the issuance of certificates of inspection. Such rules and regulations shall include but not be limited to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing of emissions repair facilities and technicians; rules and regulations; penalties; computerized communication system - Chapter 90, Section 7W
No person or facility shall conduct inspections of motor vehicles pursuant to section 7A of this chapter or section 142J or 142M of chapter 111...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Designation of referee stations - Chapter 90, Section 7X
The registrar and the commissioner shall designate specific referee stations and notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, may contract with public or private entities...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certification and training of inspectors; rules and regulations - Chapter 90, Section 7Y
The inspection of motor vehicles for emissions under section seven A shall be performed only by certified inspectors. The commissioner shall establish by rules and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Entry on premises of inspection stations; examination of records - Chapter 90, Section 7Z
The registrar, the commissioner, or their designees, may enter any licensed inspection station, or fleet inspection station, during regular business hours and may examine any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Child passenger restraints; fine; violation as evidence in civil action - Chapter 90, Section 7AA
[ First and second paragraphs effective until July 10, 2008. For text effective July 10, 2008, see below.]No child under age five and no child...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nullified by referendum by majority vote at the 1986 state election - Chapter 90, Section 7BB
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transporting of special needs children - Chapter 90, Section 7CC
Every person or company contracting to transport by motor vehicle one or more special needs children who are enrolled in a public or private school...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operator's licenses; applications; examinations - Chapter 90, Section 8
Application for a license to operate motor vehicles may be made by any person except a person who has been licensed and whose license is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Learner's permits - Chapter 90, Section 8B
Any person who is at least sixteen years of age, excepting persons who have been licensed and whose licenses are not in force because of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Medical advisory board; standards of fitness for applicants for learner's permits or licenses - Chapter 90, Section 8C
There is hereby created in the registry a medical advisory board, consisting of the commissioner of the department of public health or his designee, who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Anatomical gifts; license renewal; donor cards; liability of registrar; availability of donor names to organ procurement organizations; driver training; education material - Chapter 90, Section 8D
The registrar shall cause to be included in every notice of license renewal sent to a person licensed to operate a motor vehicle under this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; application; fee - Chapter 90, Section 8E
Any person 16 years of age or older who does not have a valid license to operate motor vehicles may make application to the registrar...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec. 57 - Chapter 90, Section 8F
Chapter 90: Section 8F. Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec. 57
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; lost, destroyed or mutilated cards; change of name; duplicate cards - Chapter 90, Section 8G
In the event an identification card issued pursuant to section eight E is lost, destroyed, mutilated, or a new name is acquired, the person to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; fictitious, fraudulent, or altered cards; possession - Chapter 90, Section 8H
No person shall: (a) display, cause or permit to be displayed, or have in his possession, any canceled, fictitious, fraudulently altered, or fraudulently obtained identification...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; description - Chapter 90, Section 8I
The identification card shall resemble in appearance, so far as is practicable, a license to operate motor vehicles. It shall adequately describe the registrant, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; change of address - Chapter 90, Section 8J
Whenever a person after applying for and receiving an identification card acquires an address different from the address shown on the identification card issued to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; cancellation - Chapter 90, Section 8K
When used in reference to an identification card “cancellation” means that an identification card is terminated without prejudice and shall be surrendered. Cancellation of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Voter registration agency - Chapter 90, Section 8L
The registry of motor vehicles shall act as a “registration agency” as defined in section one of chapter fifty and shall perform all duties established...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of unregistered or improperly equipped motor vehicles, tractors, trailers, etc - Chapter 90, Section 9
[ Text of section effective until August 14, 2008. For text effective August 14, 2008, see below.]No person shall operate, push, draw or tow any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safety glass; windshields, windows - Chapter 90, Section 9A
No person shall operate any motor vehicle, and the owner or custodian of a motor vehicle shall not permit the same to be operated with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of vehicles; display of number plates; application of law - Chapter 90, Section 9B
The provisions of this chapter relative to the registration of motor vehicles and the display of number plates shall not apply to motor vehicles having...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repair of tires on trucks, etc - Chapter 90, Section 9C
Any person or business servicing multi-piece bus, trailer, tractor or truck rims, shall use a steel cage portable locking device, chains or an equivalent containing...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Windshields and windows obscured by nontransparent materials - Chapter 90, Section 9D
No person shall operate any motor vehicle upon any public way or upon any way to which the public shall have the right of access...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of motor vehicle without license; members of armed forces; nonresidents; suspension or revocation of license - Chapter 90, Section 10
No person under sixteen years of age shall operate a motor vehicle upon any way. No other person shall so operate unless licensed by the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1953, 276 - Chapter 90, Section 10A
Chapter 90: Section 10A. Repealed, 1953, 276
- Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying of certificate of registration and license; presentation after accident upon request - Chapter 90, Section 11
Every person operating a motor vehicle shall have the certificate of registration for the vehicle and for the trailer, if any, and his license to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employing or allowing unlicensed operator to operate motor vehicle - Chapter 90, Section 12
(a) Whoever knowingly employs for hire as a motor vehicle operator any person not licensed in accordance with this chapter shall be punished by a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safety precautions for proper operation and parking of vehicles and buses - Chapter 90, Section 13
No person, when operating a motor vehicle, shall permit to be on or in the vehicle or on or about his person anything which may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seat belt use required; exemptions; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 13A
No person shall operate a private passenger motor vehicle or ride in a private passenger motor vehicle, a vanpool vehicle or truck under eighteen thousand...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Precautions for safety of other travelers - Chapter 90, Section 14
[ First paragraph effective until April 15, 2009. For text effective April 15, 2009, see below.]Every person operating a motor vehicle shall bring the vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of blind pedestrians crossing or attempting to cross ways - Chapter 90, Section 14A
Whenever a totally or partially blind pedestrian, guided by a guide dog or carrying in a raised or extended position a cane or walking stick...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uniform stopping and turning signals on ways - Chapter 90, Section 14B
Every person operating a motor vehicle, before stopping said vehicle or making any turning movement which would affect the operation of any other vehicle, shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Precautions at railroad crossings - Chapter 90, Section 15
Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, every person operating a motor vehicle, upon approaching a railroad crossing at grade, shall reduce the speed of the vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Offensive or illegal operation of motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 16
No person shall operate a motor vehicle, nor shall any owner of such vehicle permit it to be operated, in or over any way, public...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stopped motor vehicles; operation of engine; time limit; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 16A
No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the unnecessary operation of the engine of a motor vehicle while said vehicle is stopped for a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Speed limits - Chapter 90, Section 17
No person operating a motor vehicle on any way shall run it at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Speed limit; Massachusetts Turnpike - Chapter 90, Section 17A
Unless otherwise prohibited by federal law, the maximum speed for motor vehicles traveling on interstate highway route 90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, between the New York...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Drag racing; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 17B
[ First paragraph effective until February 26, 2008. For text effective February 26, 2008, see below.]No person shall operate a motor vehicle, nor shall any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special regulations, speed and use of vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 18
The city council, the transportation commission of the city of Boston, the board of selectmen, park commissioners, a traffic commission or traffic director, or the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Pedestrians, use of ways; rules and regulations; violations; notice - Chapter 90, Section 18A
The department on ways within their control and at the intersection of state highways, and other ways, the metropolitan district commission on ways within their...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dimensions and weights of motor vehicles, trucks and trailers - Chapter 90, Section 19
Except as otherwise provided in sections nineteen F and nineteen G, or when a vehicle has been authorized by permit to transport an irreducible load,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Weight limitations for certain motor vehicles, semi-trailers, etc.; scales; penalties for violations - Chapter 90, Section 19A
Any provisions of sections thirty and thirty A of chapter eighty-five to the contrary, notwithstanding a motor vehicle having two axles, which vehicle with its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 395, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 19B
Chapter 90: Section 19B. Repealed, 1967, 395, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 305, Sec. 6 - Chapter 90, Section 19C
Chapter 90: Section 19C. Repealed, 1993, 305, Sec. 6
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permit stickers; issuance; application; certificate of gross vehicle weight rating; violations; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 19D
Except for special permits for the carrying of so-called irreducible loads, for which permit stickers shall not be required, the registrar shall issue to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of certain motor vehicles, semi-trailers, etc. on interstate and defense highways - Chapter 90, Section 19E
Any provision of this chapter or of chapter eighty-five to the contrary notwithstanding, no motor vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer, or semi-trailer unit may be operated or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicles authorized to operate on national network - Chapter 90, Section 19F
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the following vehicles may operate on the National Network, as hereinafter defined, and for the purpose...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicles authorized to operate on routes of reasonable access; safety evaluations - Chapter 90, Section 19G
A motor vehicle authorized to operate on the National Network under the provisions of section nineteen F, and which is not authorized by section nineteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 129, Sec. 11 - Chapter 90, Section 19H
Chapter 90: Section 19H. Repealed, 1991, 129, Sec. 11
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maximum width and weight limitations and minimum speed limits; exception for certain construction vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 19I
Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, the maximum vehicle width as provided in section nineteen, maximum vehicle weight...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maximum vehicle widths, axle weights and minimum speed limits; exception for certain snow clearing duties - Chapter 90, Section 19J
Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, the maximum vehicle width as provided in section nineteen, the maximum axle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties and punishments - Chapter 90, Section 20
[ First paragraph applicable to violations committed on or after March 31, 2007. See 2006, 428, Sec. 27.]A person convicted of a violation of any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Parking regulations; violations; notice to appear; failure to appear; adjudication by mail - Chapter 90, Section 20A
In any city or town accepting the provisions of this section, each city manager in a city having a Plan D or E form of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cities of Boston and Cambridge; parking violations; tags; appearance; failure to appear; adjudication by mail - Chapter 90, Section 20A 1/2
Section 20A½. In the cities of Boston and Cambridge and in any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, each manager in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 405, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 20B
Chapter 90: Section 20B. Repealed, 1967, 405, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nature of proceedings under secs. 20A and 20A½; fines - Chapter 90, Section 20C
Proceedings under sections twenty A or twenty A1/2 of this chapter shall not be deemed criminal. Whenever there are outstanding against the registered owner of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tampering or destruction of parking tags; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 20D
Whoever unlawfully tampers with or removes from a motor vehicle, or unlawfully changes, mutilates or destroys any notice affixed to such motor vehicle in accordance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Liability of lessors of motor vehicles for parking violations - Chapter 90, Section 20E
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections twenty A, twenty A1/2, or any other general or special law to the contrary concerning parking laws, if the registered...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1982, 586, Sec. 1 - Chapter 90, Section 20F
Chapter 90: Section 20F. Repealed, 1982, 586, Sec. 1
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to appear in accordance with notice issued pursuant to Turnpike Authority regulation; failure to pay violation; motor vehicle license renewals; registration of motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 20G
If a person fails to appear in accordance with a notice to appear issued pursuant to a Massachusetts Turnpike Authority regulation or fails to pay...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest without warrant - Chapter 90, Section 21
Any officer authorized to make arrests may arrest without a warrant and keep in custody for not more than twenty-four hours, unless a Saturday, Sunday...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension or revocation of certificate of registration or license; notice - Chapter 90, Section 22
(a) The registrar may suspend or revoke without a hearing any certificate of registration or any license issued under this chapter whenever the holder thereof...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of operator's license or registration certificates, unsatisfied judgment; reinstatement of license - Chapter 90, Section 22A
The registrar, after hearing, shall suspend any license to operate motor vehicles issued to a judgment debtor in an action brought to recover damages for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abandonment of motor vehicles; penalties; non-criminal proceedings - Chapter 90, Section 22B
(a) Whoever abandons a motor vehicle registered or unregistered, upon any public or private way or upon any property other than his own without the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abandoned motor vehicles; removal and disposal - Chapter 90, Section 22C
If the superintendent of streets or other officer having charge of the public ways in a city or town reasonably deems that any motor vehicle...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of license for automobile law violation; reinstatement - Chapter 90, Section 22D
Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-two, if the registrar has suspended or revoked any license issued under this chapter solely or in part because of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Abandoned vehicles; removal of parts; penalty - Chapter 90, Section 22E
Whoever takes any part or accessory from an abandoned motor vehicle standing upon a public or private way or standing upon any property without the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Habitual traffic offender; revocation of license; requirements for reinstatement - Chapter 90, Section 22F
A person shall be deemed an habitual traffic offender when records maintained by the registrar show that such person has accumulated the following convictions within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Littering; suspension of license - Chapter 90, Section 22G
The registrar may, after due hearing, suspend for a period not exceeding seven days the license or permit to operate motor vehicles or the right...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Safe transportation of animals - Chapter 90, Section 22H
No person shall transport an animal in the back of a motor vehicle in a space intended for a load on the vehicle on a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of motor vehicle after suspension or revocation of license; concealment of identity of motor vehicle - Chapter 90, Section 23
Any person convicted of operating a motor vehicle after his license to operate has been suspended or revoked, or after notice of the suspension or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Driving while under influence of intoxicating liquor, etc.; second and subsequent offenses; punishment; treatment programs; reckless and unauthorized driving; failure to stop after collision - Chapter 90, Section 24
(1) (a) (1) Whoever, upon any way or in any place to which the public has a right of access, or upon any way or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of motor vehicles in commission of felony, larceny or other crimes - Chapter 90, Section 24A
If a motor vehicle is used in connection with the commission of a felony, of any larceny, or of any offence punishable under any provision...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stealing, forging or other falsification of learner's permit, operator's license, certificate of registration or inspection sticker; use or possession; penalties; suspension and reinstatement of license or right to operate motor vehicle - Chapter 90, Section 24B
[ First paragraph effective until October 29, 2008. For text effective October 29, 2008, see below.]Whoever falsely makes, steals, alters, forges or counterfeits or procures...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 317, Sec. 1 - Chapter 90, Section 24C
Chapter 90: Section 24C. Repealed, 1966, 317, Sec. 1
- Massachusetts General Laws - Probation of persons convicted of driving under the influence; driver alcohol education program; alcohol treatment and rehabilitation programs; fees; indigents; gifts and grants; report - Chapter 90, Section 24D
Any person convicted of or charged with operating a motor vehicle with a percentage, by weight, of alcohol in their blood of eight one-hundredths or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dismissal of charges upon compliance with terms of probation; records; reports - Chapter 90, Section 24E
The provisions of this section shall apply to any person convicted of or charged with operating a motor vehicle with a percentage, by weight, of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Civil liability to owner for unauthorized use of motor vehicle - Chapter 90, Section 24F
Persons convicted of using a motor vehicle without authority under the provisions of paragraph (a) of subdivision (2) of section twenty-four shall be liable in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Homicide by motor vehicle; punishment - Chapter 90, Section 24G
(a) Whoever, upon any way or in any place to which the public has a right of access, or upon any way or in any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of abandoned or stolen vehicles from public places; towing vehicles; machines that crush, mutilate or destroy vehicles; salvage or junk yard owners or agents - Chapter 90, Section 24H
No person shall remove an abandoned or stolen motor vehicle on a public way or any place to which the public has right of access...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 24I
[ Subsection (a) effective until August 8, 2008. For text effective August 8, 2008, see below.] Section 24I. (a) As used in this section, the following...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inquiry of defendant convicted of driving under influence of intoxicating liquors as to establishment serving alcohol - Chapter 90, Section 24J
In every case of a conviction of or a plea of guilty to a violation of subdivision (1) of section twenty-four involving operating a motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chemical breath analysis; validity; testing procedures; report forms - Chapter 90, Section 24K
Chemical analysis of the breath of a person charged with a violation of this chapter shall not be considered valid under the provisions of this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Serious bodily injury by motor vehicle while under influence of intoxicating substance; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 24L
(1) Whoever, upon any way or in any place to which the public has a right of access, or upon any way or in any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Training for law enforcement personne l regarding alcohol-related offenses; alcohol sensitive selective traffic enforcement program - Chapter 90, Section 24M
The officials and agencies designated in this section are hereby directed to perform the duties specified in this section and any other action within their...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suspension of operator's license upon issuance of complaint; hearing - Chapter 90, Section 24N
Upon the issuance of a complaint alleging a violation of paragraph (a) of subdivision (1) of section twenty-four or a violation of section twenty-four G...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statement to defendant regarding further violations - Chapter 90, Section 24O
Upon conviction of any violation of the provisions of this chapter, the defendant shall be provided by the probation office in the court in which...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Minors; further violations; education and treatment programs - Chapter 90, Section 24P
(a) Upon evidence that a person under the age of 21, after having been arrested for or charged with a violation under section 24, 24G...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Alcohol or drug assessment as condition for certain sentences imposed under chapter - Chapter 90, Section 24Q
A mandatory condition of any sentence imposed for: (1) a conviction or an assignment to an alcohol or controlled substance education, treatment or rehabilitation program...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation for life of license or right to operate - Chapter 90, Section 24R
(a) Notwithstanding section 24 or section 24D, the registrar shall revoke for life the license or right to operate of a person assigned to an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of motor vehicle on public way in violation of ignition interlock device license restriction; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 24S
(a) Whoever, upon any way or place to which the public has a right of access, or upon any way or place to which members...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tampering with ignition interlock device; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 24T
(a) Whoever interferes with or tampers with a certified ignition interlock device, with the intent to disable such device, shall be punished by imprisonment in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Starting motor vehicle equipped with ignition interlock device for another person under a restricted license - Chapter 90, Section 24U
(a)(1) Whoever knowingly breathes into a certified ignition interlock device as defined in section 24T or starts a motor vehicle equipped with such a device...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Child endangerment while operating a motor vehicle or vessel under the influence; penalties; suspension of license - Chapter 90, Section 24V
(a) Whoever violates paragraph (a) of subdivision (1) of section 24, subsection (a) of section 24G, operating a motor vehicle with a percentage by weight...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Forfeiture of motor vehicle owned by certain drunk driving offenders; procedure; Operating Under the Influence Deterrent Trust Fund - Chapter 90, Section 24W
(a) A motor vehicle or vessel owned by a person who has been assigned to an alcohol or controlled substance education, treatment or rehabilitation program...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of registration for motor vehicles owned by certain drunk driving offenders - Chapter 90, Section 24X
The registration of a motor vehicle owned by a person who is assigned to an alcohol or controlled substance education, treatment or rehabilitation program or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Refusal to submit to police officer - Chapter 90, Section 25
Any person who, while operating or in charge of a motor vehicle, shall refuse, when requested by a police officer, to give his name and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accident reports; supplemental report; penalty for violation - Chapter 90, Section 26
Every person operating a motor vehicle which is involved in an accident in which any person is killed or injured or in which there is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reporting changes of name and address - Chapter 90, Section 26A
(a) A person in whose name a motor vehicle or trailer has been registered under the provisions of this chapter and a person to whom...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Court records; motor vehicle violations - Chapter 90, Section 27
The clerk-magistrate of each court shall keep a full record of every criminal case filed therein, and of every civil motor vehicle infraction heard therein,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals and hearings - Chapter 90, Section 28
Any person aggrieved by a ruling or decision of the registrar may, within ten days thereafter, appeal from such ruling or decision to the board...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy registrar, chief deputy registrar, etc.; duties; investigation of motor vehicle accidents; suspension or revocation of licenses - Chapter 90, Section 29
The registrar shall appoint, and for cause, remove, a deputy registrar, chief deputy registrar, assistant to the registrar, and hearing officers, and may delegate to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 592, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 29A
Chapter 90: Section 29A. Repealed, 1961, 592, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of registrar; certified copies; destruction. - Chapter 90, Section 30
A proper record of all applications and of all certificates and licenses issued shall be kept by the registrar at his main office, and such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Computer terminals under control of registrar; use restricted - Chapter 90, Section 30A
The registrar shall not allow direct or indirect use of the computer terminals under his control, whether for inquiry into computer data files or otherwise,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interstate compact; motor vehicle convictions - Chapter 90, Section 30B
The secretary of public safety is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a compact on behalf of the commonwealth with any other jurisdiction legally...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use and operation of motor vehicles or trailers; conduct of operators and chauffeurs; rules and regulations - Chapter 90, Section 31
The registrar may make rules and regulations governing the use and operation of motor vehicles or trailers and the conduct of operators and chauffeurs, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation by motor vehicle of personal property; rules and regulations - Chapter 90, Section 31A
The department after a public hearing may make, and may alter, rescind or add to, rules and regulations for the reasonable and proper control and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records of manufacturer and dealer of motor vehicles or trailers; records of garages and open air parking space - Chapter 90, Section 32
Every manufacturer of and dealer in motor vehicles or trailers, and every owner, proprietor, person in control or keeper of a garage, and, in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration of original identifying number of motor vehicle; certificate - Chapter 90, Section 32A
When the identifying number or numbers of a motor vehicle or trailer have been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, obliterated or mutilated, the registrar may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 209, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 32B
Chapter 90: Section 32B. Repealed, 1934, 209, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing motor vehicles on mileage basis; registration of distance by mechanical devices; deception by lessor or lessee; leasing to intoxicated or unlicensed persons; redelivery - Chapter 90, Section 32C
No person engaged in the business of leasing motor vehicles or trailers under the “drive-it-yourself” system, so called, or any similar system, wherein the amount...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing motor vehicles on mileage basis; records - Chapter 90, Section 32D
Every lessor shall keep or cause to be kept a proper written record of every motor vehicle or trailer leased by him in the course...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing motor vehicles on mileage basis; operation of vehicles or use of trailers; insurance coverage - Chapter 90, Section 32E
Each lessee shall enter, or cause to be entered, on the record required by section thirty-two D, his correct name and address, in full, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rental agreements; collision damage waivers; notices; exclusions; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 32E 1/2
[ Introductory paragraph of subsection (A) effective until October 29, 2008. For text effective October 29, 2008, see below.] Section 32E½. (A) As used in this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing motor vehicles on mileage basis; fraud; violations; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 32F
Whoever obtains custody of any motor vehicle or trailer operated under any system referred to in section thirty-two C from any lessor by any trick...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instruction for hire in operation of motor vehicles; driver school; licensing; application; fees; qualifications of applicant; suspension or revocation of license or instructor's certificate; procedures - Chapter 90, Section 32G
[First paragraph applicable to violations committed on or after March 31, 2007. See 2006, 428, Sec. 27.] No person, and no public high school, vocational...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Lessors of motorcycles; licensing - Chapter 90, Section 32H
No person shall engage in the business of leasing motorcycles without being licensed by the registrar for such purpose. No such license shall be issued...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1991, 489, Sec. 16 - Chapter 90, Section 32I
Chapter 90: Section 32I. Repealed, 1991, 489, Sec. 16
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fees - Chapter 90, Section 33
The registrar or his authorized agents shall collect the fees established herein or if not so established herein, promulgated annually by the commissioner of administration...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles; certificates of registration; signatures - Chapter 90, Section 33A
In case the registrar, deputy registrar or the duly authorized agent of either whose signature or a facsimile of whose signature appears on a certificate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Traffic control signs, safety devices and improvements; installation and construction costs; high-accident locations; funding limits - Chapter 90, Section 33B
The state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the cost of installing suitable traffic control signs, or safety devices, and constructing necessary safety improvements at...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of fees; appropriation of highway fund - Chapter 90, Section 34
The fees received under the preceding sections, together with all other fees received by the registrar or any other person under the laws of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Comprehensive state transportation plan; annual and quarterly reports - Chapter 90, Section 34 1/2
Section 341/2. (a) Not later than December eighth, nineteen hundred and ninety-five, the secretary of the executive office of transportation and construction shall, after conducting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 90, Section 34A
The following words, as used in sections thirty-four A to thirty-four N, inclusive, shall have the following meanings:— “Certificate”, the certificate of an insurance company...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of insurance or surety companies; contents of certificate; copies - Chapter 90, Section 34B
The registrar shall accept a certificate as defined in section thirty-four A from any person applying for registration of a motor vehicle. Such certificate of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Single motor vehicle liability policy or bond covering several motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 34C
Any person applying for the registration of more than one motor vehicle under section two or three, or any manufacturer or dealer or repairman applying...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration application; cash deposit in lieu of liability bond or policy; satisfaction of judgment - Chapter 90, Section 34D
The applicant for registration may, in lieu of procuring a motor vehicle liability bond or policy, deposit with the state treasurer cash in the amount...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipt for and retention of cash or securities deposited - Chapter 90, Section 34E
The state treasurer shall give to the applicant for registration a receipt on a form prescribed by said treasurer of the amount of cash or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice to registrar upon service of writ or summons in action against depositor - Chapter 90, Section 34F
The registrant of a motor vehicle who deposits cash or securities as provided in this section or in section thirty-four D or the person responsible...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Actions against surety company - Chapter 90, Section 34G
If a judgment rendered against the principal on a motor vehicle liability bond or against any person responsible for the operation of the principal’s motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of registration of motor vehicle upon notice of cancellation of motor vehicle liability policy or bond; notice to owner; new certificate - Chapter 90, Section 34H
In the event that the registrar receives notice in a form he may prescribe, in conformity with section one hundred and thirteen A of chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records and books of registrar - Chapter 90, Section 34I
The registrar shall keep such records and books and publish and distribute such forms and information as will facilitate the operation of the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operating motor vehicle without liability policy, bond or security deposit - Chapter 90, Section 34J
Whoever operates or permits to be operated or permits to remain on a public or private way a motor vehicle which is subject to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Cancellation of policies - Chapter 90, Section 34K
No power of attorney in connection with the cancellation of a motor vehicle liability policy as defined in section thirty-four A shall be exercised until...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1968, 643, Sec. 6 - Chapter 90, Section 34L
Chapter 90: Section 34L. Repealed, 1968, 643, Sec. 6
- Massachusetts General Laws - Personal injury protection - Chapter 90, Section 34M
Every motor vehicle liability policy and every motor vehicle liability bond, as defined in section thirty-four A, issued or executed in this commonwealth shall provide...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assigned claims plan - Chapter 90, Section 34N
Insurers authorized to provide personal injury protection in this commonwealth are hereby directed to organize and maintain an assigned claims plan to provide that any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Property damage liability insurance or bond - Chapter 90, Section 34O
Every person having in force a motor vehicle liability policy or motor vehicle liability bond, as defined in section thirty-four A, shall also maintain in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notification of law enforcement officials upon failure to provide or maintain liability policy, bond or deposit; seizure of registration plates - Chapter 90, Section 34P
The registrar after receipt of a notice as referred to in section thirty-four H, that a motor vehicle which is subject to the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nonowner operators, hired motor vehicles; insurance coverage by endorsements - Chapter 90, Section 34Q
Notwithstanding any general or special law, regulation or rule to the contrary, there is hereby authorized the insurance of liabilities incurred in the operation of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estimate of cost of exterior repairs; notice - Chapter 90, Section 34R
(a) Whenever repairs are necessary to the visible exterior sheet metal or plastic parts of a damaged motor vehicle, any insurer or repairer preparing a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 90, Section 35
The following words and phrases used in sections thirty-five to fifty-two, inclusive, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is clearly apparent from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Structures within airport approaches; regulation of location and height - Chapter 90, Section 35A
The safety, welfare and protection of persons and property in the air and on the ground requires that the navigable air space overlying the commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Structures within airport approaches; permits for erection or addition - Chapter 90, Section 35B
No person shall erect or add to the height of any structure within a rectangular area lying fifteen hundred feet on either side of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Structures within airport approaches; application for permit; notice of denial; hearing - Chapter 90, Section 35C
Application for such permit shall be made to the commission on a form furnished by it. If such application is granted, the permit shall specify...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Structures within airport approaches; maintenance, repair or replacement; initial approval - Chapter 90, Section 35D
The provisions of section thirty-five B shall not be construed to prohibit the maintenance, repair or replacement nor to require any change in the height...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1946, 583, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 36-38
Chapter 90: Section 36 to 38. Repealed, 1946, 583, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aeronautics commission; powers; rules and regulations - Chapter 90, Section 39
The commission shall have general supervision and control over aeronautics. The commission may provide air transportation for state agencies and officials, provided said agencies or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plan for development of airports and air navigation facilities - Chapter 90, Section 39A
The commission shall prepare and revise from time to time a plan for the development of airports and air navigation facilities in the commonwealth. Such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of approval of site for municipal airport or restricted landing area; application; hearing; issuance - Chapter 90, Section 39B
Each city or town before acquiring any property within the commonwealth for the purpose of establishing, constructing, enlarging or improving thereon an airport or restricted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of towns and cities for airport construction; federal funds - Chapter 90, Section 39C
The commission is hereby authorized to expend such sums as may be appropriated for the purpose of reimbursing cities or towns for airport construction as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec. 11 - Chapter 90, Section 39D
Chapter 90: Section 39D. Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec. 11
- Massachusetts General Laws - Engineering or technical services of commission to cities and towns - Chapter 90, Section 39E
The commission, when it considers such assistance desirable and feasible, may provide, without charge, engineering or other technical services to any city or town requesting...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of city or town constructing, establishing or enlarging airport - Chapter 90, Section 39F
Whenever any city or town undertakes, in conformity with the state airport plan, the acquisition, construction, establishment, enlargement, improvement or protection of an airport and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Applicability of secs. 35—52 to counties - Chapter 90, Section 39G
The provisions of sections thirty-five to fifty-two, inclusive, applicable to any city or town shall apply to airports and aeronautical facilities owned or operated by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purposes of aeronautics commission; discretionary powers of commission; enforcement of laws - Chapter 90, Section 40
The Massachusetts aeronautics commission, in sections thirty-five to fifty-two, inclusive, called the commission, shall foster air commerce and private flying within the commonwealth and for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Airport approach regulations by cities or towns - Chapter 90, Section 40A
Any city, except Boston, and any town, may by ordinance or by-law adopt, and may administer and enforce, in the manner and upon the conditions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reasonableness of airport approach regulations - Chapter 90, Section 40B
All airport approach regulations adopted under this chapter shall be reasonable, and no such regulation shall require the removal or lowering, or other change or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adoption, amendment or repeal of airport approach regulations; public hearing - Chapter 90, Section 40C
In a city airport approach regulations may be adopted, amended or repealed only by action of the city council, and in a town only by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Erection, replacement or alteration of structures or trees; variance - Chapter 90, Section 40D
(1) A city or town may by ordinance or by-law prohibit the erection of new structures or the replacement or substantial alteration of existing structures...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative agency - Chapter 90, Section 40E
Any city or town adopting airport approach regulations under section forty A may delegate the duty of administering and enforcing such regulations to any administrative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Removal of structures erected in violation of regulations; trees; procedure - Chapter 90, Section 40F
If any structure is erected in violation of any regulation adopted under section forty A, the administrative agency, city council or selectmen, as the case...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of airport approaches; removal of structures and trees; compensation - Chapter 90, Section 40G
(1) In any case in which, in the opinion of the city council of a city, or the selectmen of a town, in which the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeal by aggrieved corporations - Chapter 90, Section 40H
[ Text of section effective until April 15, 2009. For text effective April 15, 2009, see below.]If any corporation subject to regulation by the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Approval of regulations by commission - Chapter 90, Section 40I
Airport approach regulations adopted under section forty A, and orders for the taking of property under section forty G, shall be submitted as soon as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigations or hearings; accidents - Chapter 90, Section 41
The commission, or the director if so designated by it, may hold investigations or hearings relative to matters covered by any provision of sections thirty-five...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Equitable jurisdiction of superior court - Chapter 90, Section 42
The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce any lawful rule, regulation or order made by the commission or any of its members...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public inspection of copies of orders, rules and regulations - Chapter 90, Section 43
The commission shall keep on file for public inspection at the office of the state secretary, and also at its principal office, a copy of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 90, Section 44
Any person failing to comply with any requirement, or violating any provision, of sections thirty-five to fifty-two, inclusive, or the rules and regulations for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appeals - Chapter 90, Section 45
Any person aggrieved by any rule or approach or other regulation made under sections thirty-five to fifty-two, inclusive, or by any ruling, decision or order...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Altitude of aircraft flights - Chapter 90, Section 46
Flight of aircraft over the lands and waters of this commonwealth, within the navigable air space as defined in section thirty-five, shall be lawful unless...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal pilot's license, permit or certificate - Chapter 90, Section 47
The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable in the interest of aeronautical progress, that a person engaging within this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Aircraft license, permit or certificate - Chapter 90, Section 48
The public safety requiring, and the advantages of uniform regulation making it desirable in the interest of aeronautical progress, that aircraft operated within this commonwealth...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of federal certificates; fees; exceptions - Chapter 90, Section 49
Each resident airman, and owner and operator, or owner or operator, of all aircraft and dealer in aircraft shall register the federal certificate of said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Retention of court records of cases involving violations; abstracts - Chapter 90, Section 49A
A full record shall be kept by every court of every case in which a person is charged with a violation of any provision of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions of terms used in secs. 49B—49R - Chapter 90, Section 49B
The following words, as used in sections forty-nine B to forty-nine R, inclusive, shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— (a) “Judgment”,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administration and enforcement of secs. 49B—49R; hearings; judicial review - Chapter 90, Section 49C
(a) The commission shall administer and enforce the provisions of sections forty-nine B to forty-nine R, inclusive, and may make rules and regulations necessary for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accident reports; security; suspension of aircraft registration; waiver - Chapter 90, Section 49D
(a) Not later than thirty days after receipt of an accident report, the commission shall determine by an order entered of record (1) the amount...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Policy or bond of insurer or surety company - Chapter 90, Section 49E
(a) A policy or bond provided under section forty-nine D shall be issued by an insurer or surety company authorized to do business in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restoration or renewal of registration or non-resident's operating privilege - Chapter 90, Section 49F
A registration or a non-resident’s operating privilege suspended under section forty-nine D shall not be restored or renewed with respect to the aircraft involved in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of self-insurance - Chapter 90, Section 49G
(a) Any person may at any time apply to the commission for a certificate of self-insurance, whether or not there has occurred an accident as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of registration or non-resident's operating privilege; allowance; suspension; notice - Chapter 90, Section 49H
(a) In case the operator or owner of an aircraft involved in an accident within the commonwealth has no certificate of registration, or is a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Security; form; limits; reduction or increase - Chapter 90, Section 49I
(a) The security required under section forty-nine D shall be cash or securities permissible under state law as security for deposit of state funds and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery and release of security - Chapter 90, Section 49J
Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of section forty-nine I shall be delivered to the custody of the state treasurer and shall be released...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Availability of information and material of commission - Chapter 90, Section 49K
The commission shall, upon written request, make available to persons whose legal rights may be affected thereby, information and material developed in the course of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of registration of aircraft after suspension of owner's registration - Chapter 90, Section 49L
No transfer of registration of aircraft of which the owner’s registration has been suspended shall be deemed valid or accepted by the commission, unless the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return of suspended registration certificate - Chapter 90, Section 49M
Any person whose registration is suspended shall immediately return his registration certificate to the commission. If any person fails or refuses to return such certificate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Illegal operation of aircraft; failure to return suspended registration certificate - Chapter 90, Section 49N
(a) Any owner or operator whose registration or non-resident’s operating privilege has been suspended or revoked and who, during such suspension or revocation, operates any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of secs. 49B—49R to certain aircraft - Chapter 90, Section 49O
Sections forty-nine B to forty-nine R, inclusive, shall not apply to (a) any aircraft owned and operated by or leased to and subject to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Availability of other legal processes; enforcement - Chapter 90, Section 49P
Nothing in sections forty-nine B to forty-nine R, inclusive, shall be construed as precluding any party in any action or proceeding from employing other processes...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Service of process; proof of service - Chapter 90, Section 49Q
(a) Service of process as provided for in section fifty shall be made by serving the original thereof and a copy of the declaration upon...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discharge in bankruptcy - Chapter 90, Section 49R
A discharge in bankruptcy shall not relieve any person from the requirements of sections forty-nine B to forty-nine Q, inclusive.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Severability; constitutionality - Chapter 90, Section 49S
The provisions of sections forty-nine B to forty-nine R, inclusive, are hereby declared to be severable and if any such provision or the application of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interpretation and construction of uniform aircraft financial responsibility act - Chapter 90, Section 49T
Sections forty-nine B to forty-nine R, inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Aircraft Financial Responsibility Act, and shall be so interpreted and construed as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of chairman of commission as attorney for service of process - Chapter 90, Section 50
The operation within this commonwealth by any person, by himself or his agent, of any aircraft, whether registered or unregistered, and whether with or without...
Management of State-owned Airports.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inoperative February 17, 1959 upon title vesting in the Massachusetts Port Authority. See 1956, 465, Sec. 32; 1958, 599, Sec. 12 - Chapter 90, Section 50A-50L
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1946, 613, Sec. 1 - Chapter 90, Section 51
Chapter 90: Section 51. Repealed, 1946, 613, Sec. 1
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec. 11 - Chapter 90, Section 51A-51C
Chapter 90: Section 51A to 51C. Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec. 11
- Massachusetts General Laws - Municipal airports and air navigation facilities - Chapter 90, Section 51D
Upon appropriation and subject to all applicable provisions of law, airports and air navigation facilities may be established from time to time and may be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of airport commissions for municipal airports; appointment of members; vacancies; airport managers - Chapter 90, Section 51E
In any city or town in which an airport is established under section fifty-one D, or under any other provision of law, there shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leasing of land at airports - Chapter 90, Section 51F
Any airport commission may let or lease, for a period not exceeding twenty years, those land areas at any airport under its control which are...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acquisition of property to establish airport; eminent domain; purchase; lease - Chapter 90, Section 51G
For the purpose of establishing an airport, the airport commission of a city or town, whenever appropriations have been made therefor, may take property by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Charges or rentals for use of properties, facilities, installations; terms and conditions of contracts - Chapter 90, Section 51H
An airport commission shall determine the charges or rentals for the use of any properties, facilities, installations, landing fees, concessions, uses and services and shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Power of commission to expend funds and to make contracts for maintenance, operation, construction and enlargement of airports - Chapter 90, Section 51I
The airport commission of any city or town shall be authorized to expend any funds granted to, or received from any source or appropriated by,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations; use of airports; safety of public - Chapter 90, Section 51J
An airport commission shall adopt rules and regulations for the use of municipal airports or for the safety of the public upon or beyond the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Federal funds; receipt by aeronautics commission; bids; contracts; loans in anticipation of funds - Chapter 90, Section 51K
Any airport commission established by law obtaining an offer for a grant of federal funds shall designate the Massachusetts aeronautics commission as its agent to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for construction, enlargement or improvement of airports by airport commission - Chapter 90, Section 51L
All contracts for the acquisition, establishment, construction, enlargement, improvement, protection, equipment, maintenance or operation of airports or other air navigation facilities, made by an airport...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exclusive contracts, permits or licenses to transport persons for hire or to receive or deliver passengers - Chapter 90, Section 51M
Neither the commonwealth nor any city, town or other authority shall give or grant any contract, license, permit or franchise to any person for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment, maintenance and operation of airport by municipalities as joint enterprise; contents of agreement; joint airport commission - Chapter 90, Section 51N
Two or more municipalities, by vote of the city council in a city with the approval of the mayor or by vote of a town...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partial unconstitutionality and invalidity of secs. 35—51 - Chapter 90, Section 52
If any provision of said sections thirty-five to fifty-one, inclusive, is declared unconstitutional or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1935, 418, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 53-60
Chapter 90: Section 53 to 60. Repealed, 1935, 418, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Logan Airport security zone; access; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 61
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, as a matter of public safety and security, there is hereby created...
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