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Section 1 - Direction Signs; Erection and Maintenance by Cities and Towns - Section 1. Except as otherwise provided in section two, every...
Section 2 - Traffic Signs or Devices; Erection and Maintenance; Rules and Regulations - Section 2. The department of highways, in this chapter called...
Section 2a - Removal of Vehicles Interfering With Snow and Ice Removal - Section 2A. The department, for the purpose of insuring the...
Section 2b - Limited Access and Express State Highways; Regulation of Use - Section 2B. The department for purpose of promoting public safety...
Section 2c - Towing of Vehicles From State Highways - Section 2C. The department, for the purpose of promoting public...
Section 2d - Signs on State Highways Indicating Availability of Certain Services - Section 2D. The department may, upon application by an interested...
Section 2e - Regulations to Exclude Persons and Vehicles From State Highways; Prohibition of Low-Speed Vehicles on Certain Highways - Section 2E. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 18 of chapter...
Section 3 - Change of Name of Ways or Parks; Appeal - Section 3. When the name of any public way, place...
Section 3a - Approval of Name for Way Other Than Public Way in City or Town - Section 3A. No way in any city or town which...
Section 3b - Changing of Name of Way - Section 3B. When any way in a city or town...
Section 4 - Construction of Sidewalks by Adjoining Landowners - Section 4. A person owning or occupying land adjoining a...
Section 5 - Removal of Snow and Ice From Sidewalks by Abutting Landowners; Penalties - Section 5. Cities by ordinance and towns by by-laws may...
Section 6 - Assessment of Cost of Removal of Snow and Ice From Sidewalks - Section 6. Any town which accepts this section or has...
Section 7 - Exemption From Assessment by Agreement of Owner to Remove Snow and Ice - Section 7. Any person, or the agent of any person,...
Section 7a - Storage and Use of Snow Removal Chemicals; Regulations; Reports; Penalty - Section 7A. (a) For the purposes of this section, ''person''...
Section 7b - Depositing Snow on State Highways - Section 7B. No person other than an employee in the...
Section 8 - Permits for Signs and Other Structures Projecting Into or Over Ways - Section 8. The municipal board or officer having charge of...
Section 9 - Permits; Exemption of Certain Structures - Section 9. The provisions of section eight shall not apply...
Section 9a - Flashing Lights on Billboards, etc.; Discontinuance Orders; Penalties; Exceptions - Section 9A. The department, after a public hearing, may order...
Section 10 - Regulation of Use of Ways; Penalties - Section 10. Towns may make ordinances and by-laws to prevent...
Section 10a - Coasting on Ways in Cities - Section 10A. Selectmen in towns, and the aldermen or other...
Section 11 - Arrest Without Warrant for Driving at Excessive Speed - Section 11. Whoever violates an ordinance or by-law prohibiting persons...
Section 11b - Bicycles; Operation and Equipment; Regulations; Federal Product Safety Standards, Effect; Races; Violations; Penalties - Section 11B. Every person operating a bicycle upon a way,...
Section 11b.5 - Mandatory Helmet Use for Persons 16 Years of Age or Younger - Section 11B.5. Any person 16 years of age or younger...
Section 11d - Bicycle Helmets; Display of Sign Requiring Use - Section 11D. Every person engaged in the retail business of...
Section 11e - Traffic Law Violations by Bicyclist - Section 11E. A police officer who observes a traffic law...
Section 14a - Funeral Processions - Section 14A. (a) For purposes of this section, the following...
Section 14b - Flares; Use by Certain Commercial Vehicles - Section 14B. Whenever any commercial vehicle having a gross weight...
Section 15 - Lights on Vehicles - Section 15. A vehicle, whether stationary or in motion, on...
Section 16 - Duty of Driver at Night to Give Name to Officer on Request - Section 16. Every person shall while driving or in charge...
Section 17 - Penalty for Violation of Sec. 15 or 16 - Section 17. Whoever violates any of the provisions of section...
Section 17a - Soliciting From Vehicles on Public Ways - Section 17A. Whoever, for the purpose of soliciting any alms,...
Section 17b - Riding on Rear or Side of Street Railway Car, Motor Bus or Trackless Trolley - Section 17B. Whoever rides upon the rear or side of...
Section 18 - Moving of Buildings in Public Way - Section 18. No person shall move a building in a...
Section 19 - Leading, Driving, or Conveying Dangerous Wild Animals on Public Ways - Section 19. Whoever leads or drives a bear or other...
Section 20 - Regulation of Speed on County Bridges - Section 20. The county commissioners may establish by-laws regulating the...
Section 21 - Regulation of Speed on Town Bridges - Section 21. A town may establish ordinances or by-laws to...
Section 21a - Warning Signs on State Highways for Protection of School Children - Section 21A. Subject to the provisions of section two, cities...
Section 22 - Regulation of Speed on Incorporated Bridges - Section 22. The proprietors of an incorporated bridge may make...
Section 23 - Regulation of Travel on State Ways; Penalties - Section 23. The governor, with the advice and consent of...
Section 24 - Posting of Regulations on Bridges - Section 24. No person shall be liable to penalty under...
Section 25 - Jurisdiction of District Court Over Bridges - Section 25. District courts in the towns in which the...
Section 26 - Drawbridges - Section 26. The department, county commissioners or any city or...
Section 27 - Duties of Draw Tender - Section 27. When such ordinances or by-laws have been approved,...
Section 28 - Liability of Owners of Vessel for Injury to Bridge - Section 28. If a vessel, through the negligence of the...
Section 29 - Removal of Vessel Obstructing Draw - Section 29. Such draw tender may remove a vessel which...
Section 30 - Injury to Surface of Way; Traction Engines and Heavy Vehicles; Permits; Regulations; Liability - Section 30. Except as provided in section nineteen A of...
Section 30a - Permit for Certain Vehicles Exceeding Weight Limitations to Operate on Through Routes; Application; Notice of Approval or Disapproval; Violations; Revocation or Suspension of Permit - Section 30A. The owner or lessee of any motor vehicle,...
Section 31 - Speed of Heavy Vehicles With Metallic Tires - Section 31. No vehicle which with its load weighs more...
Section 32 - Penalties for Violations of Secs. 30, 30a, and 31 - Section 32. Any person violating any provision of section thirty,...
Section 33 - Scope of Secs. 30 to 32 - Section 33. Nothing in sections thirty to thirty-two, inclusive, shall...
Section 34 - Protection of Bridges From Heavy Loads - Section 34. Except as otherwise provided in the following section,...
Section 35 - Approval by Department of Public Works of Construction of Highway Bridges; Liability for Damages to Bridges - Section 35. No bridge on a public highway having a...
Section 36 - Construction and Loading of Vehicles to Prevent Dropping of Load on Way; Penalty - Section 36. No person shall drive or move a motor...
Section 37 - Indemnity Provision in Motor Carrier Transportation Contracts Void and Unenforceable - Section 37. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the...