General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 159B Carriers of Property by Motor Vehicle
- Massachusetts General Laws - Policy - Chapter 159B, Section 1
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth to regulate transportation of property by motor carriers upon its ways in such manner...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 159B, Section 2
The following words and phrases as used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: “Agricultural carrier by motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate authorizing operations of common carriers - Chapter 159B, Section 3
No person shall engage in the business of a common carrier by motor vehicle upon any way unless there is in effect with respect to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permits issued to contract carriers - Chapter 159B, Section 4
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the commonwealth that the business of contract carriage is affected with the public interest and that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Brokers; license; fees for services; rules and regulations; filing of tariffs - Chapter 159B, Section 5
(a) No person shall for compensation sell or offer for sale transportation subject to this chapter, and no person shall make any contract, agreement or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rates and charges; tariffs; rules and regulations - Chapter 159B, Section 6
Every common carrier by motor vehicle shall publish and file with the department and keep open for public inspection tariffs containing all the rates and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Excessive rates; refunds; rebates; payments to owner-operators of equipment leased to prime contractors - Chapter 159B, Section 6A
No common carrier by motor vehicle shall charge, demand, collect or receive a different compensation for transportation or for any service in connection therewith between...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Towing away and storage of motor vehicles; maximum charges; liens; annual statements - Chapter 159B, Section 6B
The department shall establish the maximum charges that may be made by persons subject to the provisions of this chapter for the towing away of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1989, 267, Sec. 4 - Chapter 159B, Section 6C
Repealed, 1989, 267, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase by carriers; commodities for immediate resale - Chapter 159B, Section 6D
Common or contract carriers shall not purchase from shippers for the purpose of immediate resale after transportation any commodity which is listed in the authority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts for transportation; filing; contents; charges - Chapter 159B, Section 7
(a) Every contract carrier by motor vehicle, other than contract carriers by armored motor vehicles of bullion, currency, securities, negotiable and non-negotiable documents, jewels, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificate of common carrier and permit of contract carrier held by one carrier - Chapter 159B, Section 8
No carrier shall be permitted to hold both a common carrier certificate and a contract carrier permit until after having shown to the satisfaction of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plates; driver’s certificate - Chapter 159B, Section 9
A single distinguishing plate shall be prescribed and furnished by the department annually for each of the vehicles necessary for the conduct of the business...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Interstate carriers; registration; fees - Chapter 159B, Section 10
Each interstate carrier by motor vehicle transporting over the ways within the commonwealth for compensation shall register and identify with the department pursuant to the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Replacement of distinguishing plate or identification device; fees - Chapter 159B, Section 10A
When a distinguishing plate issued by the department is lost or mutilated or the number thereon becomes illegible, the carrier to whom such plate was...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicles temporarily leased; distinguishing plates; transfer of plates; rules and regulations; fees - Chapter 159B, Section 10B
The department may issue distinguishing plates to motor carriers and interstate licensees to be used only on motor vehicles temporarily leased by such carriers. Any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assignments and transfers - Chapter 159B, Section 11
Any irregular route certificate or any permit may be wholly assigned and transferred, and any regular route certificate or license may be assigned and transferred,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conditional transfers - Chapter 159B, Section 11A
In the event temporary approval for transfer under the Interstate Commerce Act has been granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission and upon application and payment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amendment, suspension or revocation; hearing - Chapter 159B, Section 12
Any certificate, permit or license may, upon application of the holder thereof and after notice and hearing as provided by paragraph (b) of section three,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Director of transportation division; powers - Chapter 159B, Section 12A
The director of the transportation division may destroy applications filed under this chapter for distinguishing plates, except those of the current calendar year and the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Exempt vehicles - Chapter 159B, Section 13
Motor vehicles owned by the commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions and motor vehicles engaged in the transportation of non-hazardous waste materials shall be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investigators and examiners; powers - Chapter 159B, Section 14
Investigators and examiners appointed under section twelve F of chapter twenty-five, with respect to the enforcement of the laws relating to commercial motor vehicles, including...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of cargo and of papers relating to cargo - Chapter 159B, Section 14A
Every motor carrier, including private carriers and interstate licensees, their agents and employees, when requested by a duly authorized state police officer who is in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of investigation provisions - Chapter 159B, Section 14B
Any person who, while operating or in charge of a commercial motor vehicle, refuses, when requested by an investigator or examiner of the commercial motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary certificates and permits - Chapter 159B, Section 15
The department may, upon application therefor, when consistent with the public interest and the policy of this chapter, as set forth in section one, issue...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Agricultural carrier’s permit - Chapter 159B, Section 15A
No person shall engage in the business of an agricultural carrier by motor vehicle unless there is in effect with respect to such carrier an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 159B, Section 16
The department may establish from time to time such reasonable rules and regulations consistent with this chapter as may be necessary to carry out its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Books and records; inspection or production - Chapter 159B, Section 16A
The department, in the enforcement of this chapter, may inspect or cause to be produced the books and records of persons engaged in the business...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transporting household goods; advertisements - Chapter 159B, Section 16B
Every motor carrier engaged in the transportation of household goods between points within the commonwealth including a carrier providing a service incidental to or part...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Submission of accounts, records or memoranda; penalty - Chapter 159B, Section 17
In case of failure or refusal on the part of any person, including shipper, consignee, consignor, leasing company, motor carrier, broker, his executor, administrator, guardian,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Drivers; hours - Chapter 159B, Section 18
No driver shall operate any motor vehicle used for the transportation of property on the ways within the commonwealth, and no owner, lessee or other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rebates, concessions or discrimination; rates at less than required; evasion of regulation - Chapter 159B, Section 19
No person, whether carrier, shipper, consignee, or broker, or any officer, employee, agent, or representative thereof, shall (1) knowingly offer, grant or give, or solicit,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation bills; credit; exemptions - Chapter 159B, Section 19A
Transportation bills for all transportation charges by common carriers of property by motor vehicle shall be presented or mailed to the shippers within seven calendar...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conflicting authority - Chapter 159B, Section 20
Nothing in this chapter shall lessen or affect the authority or powers of the department of highways or of the registrar of motor vehicles under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations - Chapter 159B, Section 21
Whoever violates any provision of this chapter, or any order, rule or regulation adopted or established thereunder, or any lawful requirement, condition, limitation or restriction...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Saving clause - Chapter 159B, Section 22
If any provision of this chapter shall be declared unconstitutional, the validity of its remaining provisions shall not be affected thereby.
Last modified: September 11, 2015