Section 7B. The driver of a vehicle of a fire, police or recognized protective department and the driver of an ambulance shall be subject to the provisions of any statute, rule, regulation, ordinance or by-law relating to the operation or parking of vehicles, except that a driver of fire apparatus while going to a fire or responding to an alarm, or the driver of a vehicle of a police or recognized protective department or the driver of an ambulance, in an emergency and while in performance of a public duty or while transporting a sick or injured person to a hospital or other destination where professional medical services are available, may drive such vehicle at a speed in excess of the applicable speed limit if he exercises caution and due regard under the circumstances for the safety of persons and property, and may drive such vehicle through an intersection of ways contrary to any traffic signs or signals regulating traffic at such intersection if he first brings such vehicle to a full stop and then proceeds with caution and due regard for the safety of persons and property, unless otherwise directed by a police officer regulating traffic at such intersection. The driver of any such approaching emergency vehicle shall comply with the provisions of section fourteen of chapter ninety when approaching a school bus which has stopped to allow passengers to alight or board from the same, and whose red lamps are flashing.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XIV - Public Ways and Works
Section 2 - Passing Vehicle Traveling in Same Direction
Section 3 - Sleigh or Sled; Bells
Section 4 - Keeping to Right While View Obstructed
Section 4a - Driving Vehicles in a Single Lane; Motorcycles, Riding and Passing
Section 4b - Driving in Lane Nearest Right Side of Way
Section 4c - Heavy Trucks; Driving in Right-Hand Lane on Multi-Lane Highways
Section 4d - Standing or Parking of Motor Vehicle in a Designated Bike Lane
Section 5 - Penalty; Exceptions
Section 6 - Applicability of Rules of Road to Street Railway Cars
Section 6a - Stopping of Street Railway Cars for Passage of Fire Apparatus
Section 7 - Right of Way of Fire Engines, Patrol Vehicles and Ambulances; Obstruction; Penalties
Section 7a - Restrictions on Use of Ways Upon Approach of Emergency Vehicles
Section 7b - Operation of Emergency Vehicles
Section 7d - Moving of Vehicle Involved in a Crash From a Travel Lane
Section 8 - Right-of-Way at Intersecting Ways; Turning on Red Signals
Section 9 - Designation of Highways as Through Ways; Traffic Control Signs and Devices
Section 10 - Violation of One-Way Traffic; Civil Liability
Section 11 - Marked Crosswalks; Yielding Right of Way to Pedestrians; Penalty