General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 159A Common Carriers of Passengers by Motor Vehicle
- Massachusetts General Laws - Motor vehicles providing public transportation; license; fee; rules and regulations; appeal from denial of license - Chapter 159A, Section 1
No person shall, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, operate any motor vehicle upon any public way in any city or town for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses; specification of routes; form; detours - Chapter 159A, Section 2
Every such license shall specify the route or routes over which the motor vehicles used thereunder may be operated, and shall be on a form...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure of municipalities between terminals to grant license; authority of department of public utilities - Chapter 159A, Section 3
If a person desiring to operate any motor vehicle for the purposes and in the manner aforesaid over a route covering at least twenty miles...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Voiding licenses, continuing licenses; revocation of licenses - Chapter 159A, Section 4
A license issued under this chapter on or after November first, nineteen hundred and forty-five, for operations as to which no certificate of public convenience...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary licenses - Chapter 159A, Section 5
The department may, in order to provide for unusual, sudden or unforeseen transportation needs, or to avoid interruption of existing transportation facilities, issue such temporary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; actions; cancellation of bond - Chapter 159A, Section 6
No motor vehicle shall be operated under any license issued under this chapter until the licensee, in addition to complying with all orders, rules and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of public convenience or necessity; transfer of certificate or charter license - Chapter 159A, Section 7
No person shall operate a motor vehicle under a license issued as aforesaid unless he has also obtained from the department a certificate declaring that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment or transfer of certificate - Chapter 159A, Section 7A
Any certificate of public convenience and necessity granted by the department pursuant to section seven and chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the acts of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permit required; interstate carriers excepted; compliance with department rules and regulations - Chapter 159A, Section 8
No motor vehicle shall be operated under a license issued under the provisions of this chapter without a permit from the department, except that a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Drivers licenses; qualifications; fees; revocation - Chapter 159A, Section 9
No person shall drive any motor vehicle under authority of this chapter unless he shall, in addition to being duly licensed by the registrar of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Supervision and regulation by department; annual return - Chapter 159A, Section 10
Any person engaged in the operation of motor vehicles under a license and certificate as provided in this chapter is hereby declared to be a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violation of provisions of chapter; revocation of registration of vehicle or driver’s license - Chapter 159A, Section 11
If the department after notice and hearing finds that any motor vehicle subject to this chapter has been operated in violation of any provision thereof,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Charter, school or special service vehicles; license; rules and regulations - Chapter 159A, Section 11A
No person shall operate or offer to provide service by means of any motor vehicle carrying ten or more persons, including the driver, upon any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agreements to contribute to costs of public transportation authorized - Chapter 159A, Section 11B
Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter one hundred and sixty-one A to the contrary, any city or town may, for the purpose of providing public transportation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local rules and regulations; changes by department - Chapter 159A, Section 12
The licensing authority in any city or town may, in respect of matters not treated of in the provisions of law governing the operation of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Department of highways; registrar of motor vehicles; application of chapter - Chapter 159A, Section 13
Nothing contained in this chapter shall lessen or affect the authority or powers of the department of highways or of the registrar of motor vehicles...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trackless trolleys; application of chapter - Chapter 159A, Section 14
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to transportation by the system known as trolleymotor or trackless trolley under the provisions of chapter one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; penalties; jurisdiction; complaints - Chapter 159A, Section 15
Whoever violates any provision of this chapter for which no other penalty is provided, or any order, rule or regulation adopted or established thereunder, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Evasion of payment of fare; penalty - Chapter 159A, Section 16
Whoever fraudulently evades or attempts to evade the payment of a fare lawfully established by a common carrier duly licensed under the provisions of this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1980, 261, Sec. 27A - Chapter 159A, Section 17
Repealed, 1980, 261, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1934, 264, Sec. 5 - Chapter 159A, Section 18 to 30
Repealed, 1934, 264, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wrongful interference with operation of school bus or vehicle carrying passengers for hire; penalties - Chapter 159A, Section 31
Whoever willfully, with intent to endanger the safety of any person on board or any person who he believes will board the same, or with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - School department vehicles; use for transporting community groups - Chapter 159A, Section 32
Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, the school department of a town may make vehicles under its control available to transport a community group, including,...
Last modified: September 11, 2015