General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 89 Law of the Road

• 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
  Except as herein otherwise provided, the driver of a vehicle passing another vehicle traveling in the same direction shall drive a safe distance to the...
• 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; obstruction; penalties - 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 - Lane change upon approaching a stationary emergency response vehicle, highway maintenance vehicle or recovery vehicle; penalty - Chapter 89, Section 7C
  (a) As used in this section the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: “Emergency response vehicle”, a fire...
• 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; traffic control signs and devices - 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Surcharge on fines for motor vehicle violation - Chapter 89, Section 12
  [ Text of section added by 2013, 38, Sec. 75 effective December 1, 2013. See 2013, 38, Sec. 213.]There shall be a surcharge of $5...

Last modified: September 11, 2015