Section 2. (a) No certificate of title need be obtained for: (1) A vehicle owned by the United States unless it is registered in accordance with the provisions of chapter ninety; provided, that a vehicle on loan from the United States or from a motor vehicle manufacturer or distributor to the commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof, may be registered by the commonwealth or political subdivision, or by an agency of the commonwealth or a political subdivision that the loaned vehicle has been re-assigned to, without the need to apply for a certificate of title, if the registrant is in possession of a written agreement evidencing the vehicle loan and the agreement is signed by an authorized employee of the United States government agency or motor vehicle manufacturer or distributor providing the vehicle, or if reassigned from an agency of the commonwealth or a political subdivision, it is signed by an authorized employee of the agency or political subdivision of the commonwealth which received the vehicle from the United States or motor vehicle manufacturer or distributor and re-assigned it to the registrant; (2) A vehicle owned by a manufacturer or dealer and held for sale, even though incidentally moved on the highway or used for purposes of testing or demonstration; or a vehicle used by a manufacturer solely for testing; (3) A vehicle owned by a nonresident of the commonwealth for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in the state of residence; (4) A vehicle regularly engaged in the interstate transportation of persons or property for which a currently effective certificate of title has been issued in another state or country; (5) A vehicle moved solely by animal power; (6) An implement of husbandry; (7) Special mobile equipment; (8) A self-propelled wheel chair or invalid tricycle; (10) Trailers having gross weight of three thousand pounds or less; (12) Manufactured home, as defined in section thirty-two Q of chapter one hundred and forty.
[There is no paragraph (b).]
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XIV - Public Ways and Works
Chapter 90d - Motor Vehicle Certificates of Title
Section 2 - Exemptions; Application of Sections
Section 3 - Application of Chapter
Section 4 - Registration Under Chapter 90; Application for Certificate of Title Required
Section 5 - Owner of Implement of Husbandry, etc.; Application of Chapter, Exception
Section 6 - Certificate of Origin
Section 7 - Application for First Certificate of Title; Contents
Section 8 - Check of Application Against Records
Section 9 - Issuance and Record of Certificates of Title
Section 10 - Contents of Certificate; Distinctive Certificates; Forms; Evidence; Nature
Section 11 - Mailing of Certificate
Section 11a - Electronic Recording of Security Interests
Section 12 - Withholding of Certificate; Bond
Section 13 - Refusal of Issuance; Grounds
Section 14 - Duplicate Certificate of Title
Section 16 - Dealers; Assignment and Warranty of Title; Record of Transactions
Section 17 - Involuntary Transfers of Interests
Section 19 - Issuance to Transferee; Surrendered Certificates
Section 20 - Total Loss Salvage Motor Vehicles; Surrender of Certificate of Title; Salvage Title
Section 20a - Application for Salvage Title; Procedure
Section 20b - Exceptions to Salvage Title Requirement
Section 20c - Transfer of Interest in Vehicle With Issued Salvage Title
Section 20d - Reconstruction or Restoration of Total Loss Salvage Motor Vehicle
Section 20e - Cancellation of Certificate Upon Junking or Scrapping of Vehicle
Section 21 - Perfecting of Security Interest in Vehicle
Section 21a - Motor Vehicles or Trailers; Limitation on Creation of Sale or Security Interest
Section 24 - Satisfaction of Security Interest in Vehicle
Section 25 - Disclosure of Information by Lienholder
Section 26 - Exclusiveness of Method of Perfecting Security Interests
Section 27 - Suspension or Revocation of Certificate of Title
Section 30 - Review of Ruling or Decision of Registrar
Section 31 - Liability of Registrar or Commonwealth
Section 34 - Previously Registered Vehicle, Defined
Section 35 - Application of Chapter to Previously Registered Vehicle
Section 36 - Previously Registered Vehicle; Undisclosed Security Interest; Distinctive Certificate
Section 38 - Validity of Certificate Issued Prior to Certain Dates