General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 90 Motor Vehicles and Aircraft

• 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, failure to maintain; revocation of certificate of registration; exemptions; school buses - Chapter 90, Section 1A
  No motor vehicle or trailer, except one owned by a person, firm or corporation, for the operation of which security is required to be furnished...
• 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 and scooters; 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
  Every person lawfully operating a low-speed motor vehicle shall have the right to use all public ways in the commonwealth except limited access or express...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of disclosure required upon sale, lease or rental of low-speed motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 1G
  Every licensed motor vehicle dealer and every person engaged in the business of leasing or renting low-speed vehicles to the public shall, upon the sale,...
• 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
  In addition to the types of vehicles that may be registered under chapter 90, the registrar of motor vehicles may issue a registration for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - 3-wheeled motor vehicle registered as motorcycle; qualification - Chapter 90, Section 1I
  Notwithstanding the definition of “Motorcycle” in section 1, the registrar of motor vehicles may register a 3-wheeled motor vehicle as a motorcycle on which the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration of motor vehicles and trailers; applications; reciprocal state agreements; transfer of ownership; plates; fraud or misrepresentation; penalties; license plate retention program for deployed residents - Chapter 90, Section 2
  Applications for the registration of motor vehicles and trailers may be made by the owner thereof. If the owner is a corporation, sole proprietorship or...
• 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
  Repealed, 1973, 925, Sec.
• 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; Environmental Trust Fund; Child Care Quality Fund; 9/11 victims and military heroes funds - Chapter 90, 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 be on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Distinctive registration plates; submission of applications; eligible organizations - Chapter 90, Section 2F
  (a) The registrar shall design, issue and regulate the use of distinctive registration plates, subject to the following conditions: an organization sponsoring or requesting a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Passenger plates for low-speed motor vehicles; fee - Chapter 90, Section 2G
  The registrar of motor vehicles shall issue passenger plates of suitable design for low-speed motor vehicles as defined in section 1. The fee for the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of registration and number plates for street rods, replica and other custom vehicles; determination of title year and make, model and model year - Chapter 90, Section 2H
  (a) For purposes of this section, section 2I and section 33, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:—...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Registration prerequisites for certain custom vehicles; salvage inspection; state-assigned VIN; safety belts; air bags - Chapter 90, Section 2I
  (a) The registrar, prior to the initial registration of a custom vehicle, replica vehicle, specially-constructed vehicle or street rod, may require such vehicle to undergo...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of motor vehicles owned by non-residents; 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 - Commonwealth residency factors; access to information in nonpublic records; certification of facts; motor vehicle registration misrepresentations; penalties and fines - Chapter 90, 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 during any...
• 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 to 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
  Repealed, 1931, 142, Sec.
• 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
  The registrar shall establish rules and regulations providing for a periodic staggered inspection of all motor vehicles; provided, however, that the periodic inspection for motorcycles...
• 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 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 vehicle used...
• 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
  Repealed, 1973, 948, Sec.
• 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 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 state or...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Defective or malfunctioning new motor vehicles; sale and repair or replacement - Chapter 90, Section 7N1/2
  (1) For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the following meanings: “Business day”, any day during which the service departments of authorized...
• 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 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 other plate...
• 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
  A passenger in a motor vehicle on any way who is under the age of 8 shall be fastened and secured by a child passenger...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nullified by referendum by majority vote at the 1986 state election - Chapter 90, Section 7BB
  Nullified by referendum by majority vote at the 1986 state
• 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 - Operators of school buses; licensing; training; instructors - Chapter 90, Section 8A
  Application for a license to be a school bus operator may be made by any person who shall have attained the age of eighteen years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operators of school buses under Sec. 7D; licensing; exceptions - Chapter 90, Section 8A1/2
  Every operator transporting school pupils under the provisions of section seven D shall make application to the registrar within ninety days of their next birth...
• 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 - Donor registry and anatomical gift act; information to be included with notice of license and registration renewal; symbol on license; charitable donations; liability of government employees; transmission of information to organ procurement organizations; educational materials - Chapter 90, Section 8D
  The registrar shall include in every notice of license and registration renewal, including an electronic renewal, sent to a person licensed to operate a motor...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Identification cards for persons not possessing motor vehicle licenses; application; fee; organ donor status; provision of donor information to eye and tissue banks; expiration - Chapter 90, Section 8E
  Any person 14 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
  Repealed, 1980, 329, Sec.
• 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 - Use of mobile telephone, hands-free mobile telephone or mobile electronic device by person under 18 years of age while operating motor vehicle prohibited; penalties;affirmative defenses - Chapter 90, Section 8M
  No person under 18 years of age shall use a mobile telephone, hands-free mobile telephone or mobile electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of unregistered or improperly equipped motor vehicles, tractors, trailers, etc. - Chapter 90, Section 9
  No person shall operate, push, draw or tow any motor vehicle or trailer, and the owner or custodian of such a vehicle shall not permit...
• 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
  Repealed, 1953,
• Massachusetts General Laws - Carrying 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 unlicensed motor vehicle operator; permitting person with suspended or revoked license to operate motor vehicle; permitting person with ignition interlock devise license restriction to operate motor vehicle without devise; penalties - 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 for a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Use of mobile telephone, hands-free mobile telephone or other mobile electronic device by operator of vehicle or vessel used in public transportation prohibited; penalties; affirmative defenses - Chapter 90, Section 12A
  (a) No operator of a vehicle or vessel used in public transportation, including a train, passenger bus, school bus or other vehicle used to transport...
• 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 - Composing, sending or reading of electronic messages while operating a motor vehicle prohibited; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 13B
  (a) No operator of a motor vehicle shall use a mobile telephone, or any handheld device capable of accessing the internet, to manually compose, send...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Precautions for safety of other travelers - Chapter 90, Section 14
  Every person operating a motor vehicle shall bring the vehicle and the motor propelling it immediately to a stop when approaching a cow, horse or...
• 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 - Idling of a motor vehicle engine on school property; penalties; adoption of regulations - Chapter 90, Section 16B
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the term “school grounds” shall mean in, on or within 100 feet of the real property comprising 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
  No person shall operate a motor vehicle, nor shall any owner of such vehicle permit it to be operated, in a manner where the owner...
• 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
  Repealed, 1967, 395, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1993, 305, Sec. 6 - Chapter 90, Section 19C
  Repealed, 1993, 305, Sec.
• 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 motor vehicles and certain trailers and semi-trailers 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
  Repealed, 1991, 129, Sec.
• 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 - Hitching mechanism - Chapter 90, Section 19K
  For the purposes of this section, the term “hitching mechanism” shall be defined as the lift cylinder and the lift arm. Nothing in this section...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Regulations to ensure compliance of interstate and intrastate motor carriers with federal and state laws; inspection of records; penalties - Chapter 90, Section 19L
  (a) The registrar shall adopt regulations to ensure compliance by all interstate and intrastate motor carriers with this chapter and with: (1) the regulations of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties and punishments - Chapter 90, Section 20
  A person convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter the punishment for which is not otherwise provided, or of a violation of...
• 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 20A1/2
  In the cities of Boston and Cambridge and in any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, each manager in a city...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1967, 405, Sec. 2 - Chapter 90, Section 20B
  Repealed, 1967, 405, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Nature of proceedings under Secs. 20A and 20A1/2; 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
  Repealed, 1982, 586, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to appear in accordance with notice issued pursuant to Department of Transportation 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 Department of Transportation regulation or fails to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to pay required toll; Tobin Bridge; motor vehicle license renewals; registration of motor vehicles - Chapter 90, Section 20H
  If a person fails to appear in accordance with a notice to appear issued for a failure to pay or prepay the required toll on...
• 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; 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 - Suspension of license upon report of health care provider or law enforcement officer of operator’s cognitive or functional impairment or incapability to operate motor vehicle safely; contents of report; immunity from liability; review by registrar; confidentiality of report - Chapter 90, Section 22I
  (a) For the purposes of this section, “health care provider” shall mean a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, physician, physician assistant, psychologist, occupational therapist, physical...
• 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 - Ignition interlock device license restriction; revocation of license for failure to install or maintain device; revocation of license for attempt to operate motor vehicle with elevated blood alcohol level - Chapter 90, Section 241/2
  No person whose license has been suspended in the commonwealth or any other jurisdiction by reason of: an assignment to an alcohol or controlled substance...
• 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, disability placard 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
  Whoever falsely makes, steals, alters, forges or counterfeits or procures or assists another to falsely make, steal, alter, forge or counterfeit a learner’s permit, a...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1966, 317, Sec. 1 - Chapter 90, Section 24C
  Repealed, 1966, 317, Sec.
• 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
  (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Open container,” a bottle, can or other receptacle used to contain...
• 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 personnel 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 - Licenses and learner’s permits; 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.; appointment; 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
  Repealed, 1961, 592, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Records of registrar; certified copies; destruction - Chapter 90, Section 30
  A proper record of all applications, certificates, licenses and other documents issued or received and maintained in the normal course of business by the registry...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Computer terminals under control of registrar; restricted use - 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 - Agreements with third party entities by registrar - Chapter 90, Section 30A1/2
  Notwithstanding section 30A or any other general or special law to the contrary, the registrar may, in the interest of seeking cost efficiencies, avoiding disruptions...
• 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; manufacturers and dealers of motor vehicles or trailers; garages and open air parking spaces - 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
  Repealed, 1934, 209, Sec.
• 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 32E1/2
  (A) As used in this section and section 32E3/4 the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise: “Authorized...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Rental agreements; separately stated surcharges, fees or charges; vehicle license cost recovery fee - Chapter 90, Section 32E3/4
  A rental company may include separately stated surcharges, fees or charges in a rental agreement, which may include, but shall not be limited to, vehicle...
• 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
  No person, and no public high school, vocational school, municipal or regional school committee or private high school teaching driver education to students enrolled in...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Advanced driver training program certification - Chapter 90, Section 32G1/2
  The registrar shall promulgate rules and regulations relative to the certification and operation of advanced driver training programs offered within the commonwealth. No person or...
• 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
  Repealed, 1991, 489, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Vehicles in fleet of car-sharing organization; display of registration plates - Chapter 90, Section 32J
  (a) As used in this section, “car-sharing organization” shall mean a membership-based entity with a distributed fleet of private passenger motor vehicles that are made...
• 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 - 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 - Repealed, 2009, 25, Sec. 82 - Chapter 90, Section 341/2
  Repealed, 2009, 25, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions applicable to Secs. 34A to 34N - 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; 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; notice - 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
  Repealed, 1968, 643, Sec.
• 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 bonds - 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 - Notice to law enforcement officials; 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 applicable to Secs. 35 to 52 - 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 to 38
  Repealed, 1946, 583, Sec.
• 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; municipal airport site 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
  Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec.
• 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 to 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
  If any corporation subject to regulation by the department of public utilities or the department of telecommunications and cable is aggrieved by the adoption of...
• 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 of Secs. 35 to 52; 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 applicable to Secs. 49B to 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 to 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 - Commission; availability of information and material - 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 aircraft registration following 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 to 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 administrator for aeronautics 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...
• 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 to 50L
  Inoperative February 17, 1959 upon title vesting in the Massachusetts Port Authority. See 1956, 465, Sec. 32; 1958, 599, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1946, 613, Sec. 1 - Chapter 90, Section 51
  Repealed, 1946, 613, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec. 11 - Chapter 90, Section 51A to 51C
  Repealed, 1948, 637, Sec.
• 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 - Airport commissions for municipal airports; 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; expenditure of funds; 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 at airports - 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 to 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 to 60
  Repealed, 1935, 418, Sec.
• 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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