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MA Gen L ch 90 § 31a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 31a - Transportation by Motor Vehicle of Personal Property; Rules and Regulations

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 regulation of the transportation by motor vehicle of personal property over the ways of this commonwealth, except ways under the control of the metropolitan district commission. Said rules and regulations shall cover, among other matters which the department may deem necessary or desirable, the fixing of routes with respect to the physical capacity of such ways to carry traffic; the establishment of the maximum weight of loads per commercial motor vehicle and per inch of tire in contact with the surface of such ways; the maximum dimensions of loads; and the regulation of the rate of speed of such vehicles over such ways. Said rules and regulations and any changes therein shall be subject to approval, and shall take effect, in the manner provided by section six of chapter sixteen. Any person convicted of a violation of any rule or regulation made under this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars and in case of a second or subsequent offense, the registration of the vehicle or vehicles involved shall be suspended for such length of time as the registrar shall determine.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32 - Records; Manufacturers and Dealers of Motor Vehicles or Trailers; Garages and Open Air Parking Spaces

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 city of Boston, every owner, proprietor, person in control or keeper of an open air parking space kept open with attendants day and night for the storage or keeping for hire of motor vehicles or trailers, shall keep or cause to be kept in a book a proper record of every motor vehicle or trailer which enters and which leaves his garage, stable, shop or place of business; provided, however, that any dealer in motor vehicles or trailers, or person engaged in the repair or servicing of motor vehicles or trailers, who makes no charge for the storage of motor vehicles or trailers, shall be exempt from keeping the record book above referred to if and so long as he keeps adequate records of the repairs and services performed with respect to the motor vehicles or trailers which come into his custody, which records show in substance the information required to be shown in said book. Said book shall have columns and headings substantially as follows:    All entries in said book shall be made legibly in ink or with an indelible pencil. The said book shall be kept in some convenient place and the book, the premises where such book is required to be kept and the vehicles stored or parked therein may be inspected at all times by the registrar, his agents, or by any police officer.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32a - Restoration of Original Identifying Number of Motor Vehicle; Certificate

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 issue to any person applying therefor a certificate authorizing the restoration upon such motor vehicle or trailer of its original identifying number or numbers, or the substitution therefor of an identifying number or numbers designated by the registrar.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32c - Leasing Motor Vehicles on Mileage Basis; Registration of Distance by Mechanical Devices; Deception by Lessor or Lessee; Leasing to Intoxicated or Unlicensed Persons; Redelivery

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 of the rental is determinable in whole or in part by the distance such motor vehicles or trailers travel, shall lease any such vehicle whereto is attached a hubodometer or other mechanical device for the purpose of registering the distance that such vehicle travels which does not register such distance with substantial accuracy, nor shall any such person, herein and in the following three sections called the lessor, knowingly deceive any lessee of any such vehicle under any such system, herein and in the following three sections called the lessee, as to the distance which such vehicle has traveled under the lease, or make or collect a charge for the use thereof based wholly or in part on such deception, or lease any such vehicle for operation on any public way by any person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be under the influence of intoxicating liquor or of any drug. No lessor shall lease any motor vehicle or trailer until the lessee shows that he or his authorized operator is the holder of a duly issued license to operate the type of motor vehicle or trailer which is being leased.  No lessee shall, with intent to deceive the lessor, remove or attempt to remove, tamper with or attempt to tamper with, or in any other wise interfere with, any such hubodometer or other mechanical device so attached, or knowingly aid or assist another in so doing; nor shall any lessee abandon the vehicle or wilfully refuse or neglect to redeliver it in such manner as he may have agreed.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32d - Leasing Motor Vehicles on Mileage Basis; Records

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 of the business described in section thirty-two C. Such record shall have columns and headings substantially as follows:    Each entry in such record shall be made at the time of leasing or at the time of terminating the lease, as the case may be, and shall be legibly written in ink or with an indelible pencil. Such record shall be kept in some convenient place and shall be open at all times during the ordinary business hours of the lessor to the inspection of the registrar and his agents, and, upon written request therefor by the official in charge of the police department of the town, of any constable or police officer thereof. Such records shall not be destroyed until twelve months after their respective dates.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32e - Leasing Motor Vehicles on Mileage Basis; Operation of Vehicles or Use of Trailers; Insurance Coverage

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 shall not permit or suffer any other person to operate such motor vehicle or use such trailer while it is so leased; provided, that a lessee who makes known at the time of leasing that he is unable, or does not intend, to operate such vehicle or use such trailer personally and intends to have such vehicle operated or used for him by another and who at such time also furnishes as to such operator the information required by section thirty-two D, may, with the consent of the lessor, permit such operator to operate such vehicle or use such trailer during the time of the lease. Operation of such vehicle by any person permitted or suffered by the lessee to operate the same in violation of this section shall nevertheless be deemed to be with the express or implied consent of the lessor for the purposes of sections thirty-four A to thirty-four J, inclusive.  Every lessor shall provide and maintain, during such time as he engages in the business of leasing motor vehicles under any system referred to in section thirty-two C a motor vehicle liability policy or bond or deposit, which, in addition to providing indemnity, protection or security for personal injuries, shall, except in the case of vehicles leased for a term of more than thirty days, further provide indemnity, protection or security for damage to property as required by the provisions of this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32e3/4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32e3/4 - Rental Agreements; Separately Stated Surcharges, Fees or Charges; Vehicle License Cost Recovery Fee

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 license cost recovery fees, airport access fees, airport concession fees, convention center and police training surcharges and all applicable taxes; provided, however, that: (i) these surcharges, fees or charges shall not be included in the base cost of the vehicle rental; (ii) these surcharges, fees or charges shall be disclosed in a manner that is readily noticable in the rental agreement; and (iii) the rental company shall include a statement in any price advertisement it makes in the commonwealth about the existence of these surcharges, fees or charges that a consumer must pay and which may be separately stated on a rental transaction.  If a rental company includes a vehicle license cost recovery fee as a separately stated charge in a rental transaction, the amount of the fee shall represent the rental company's good faith estimate of the daily charge necessary for the rental company to recover its actual total annual costs to license, title, register, plate, inspect or pay excise tax costs on its rental fleet in the commonwealth. If the total amount of the vehicle license cost recovery fees collected by a rental company pursuant to this section in a calendar year exceeds the rental company's actual costs to license, title, register, plate, inspect or pay excise tax costs on its rental fleet in the commonwealth for that calendar year, the rental company shall: (i) retain the excess amount; and (ii) adjust the estimated average per vehicle charge to recover the costs to license, title, register, plate, inspect or pay excise tax for the following calendar year by a corresponding amount.  This section shall not prohibit a rental company from adjusting the vehicle license cost recovery fee during a calendar year as it determines to be necessary.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32e7/8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32e7/8 - Police Training Surcharge Upon Vehicular Rental Transaction Contracts

Section 32E7/8. (a) There shall be a police training surcharge of $2 imposed upon each vehicular rental transaction contract in the commonwealth. The surcharge shall be in accordance with section 32E3/4 and shall be collected by the department of revenue and deposited in the Municipal Police Training Fund established in section 35EEE of chapter 10; provided, however, that not more than $10,000,000 collected from the surcharge in a calendar year shall be deposited into the fund; and provided further, that any amount collected from the surcharge above $10,000,000 in a calendar year shall be deposited into the General Fund. The surcharge shall not apply to transportation network companies or to rental periods of less than 12 hours that are charged on an hourly basis.  [There is no subsection (b).]
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32f - Leasing Motor Vehicles on Mileage Basis; Fraud; Violations; Penalties

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 or by any fraudulent or false representation, or by the giving of any bad or worthless check or any false token or writing, or by the false impersonation of another, or leases such a vehicle with intent to defraud the lessor, or whoever violates any provision of sections thirty-two C to thirty-two E, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.  Refusal to pay the proper charge for the use of any such vehicle or the giving of a bad or worthless check in payment of such a charge shall be prima facie evidence of such intent to defraud.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32h - Lessors of Motorcycles; Licensing

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 unless the registrar is satisfied from an investigation of the facts that the applicant is a proper person to engage in such business and that he has a place of business suitable for such purpose. A separate license shall be secured for each place of business where a person conducts a business of leasing motorcycles. Application for a license under this section may be filed with the registrar and contain such information as he shall prescribe. Each such application shall be accompanied by an application fee which shall in no event be refunded. If an application is approved by the registrar, the applicant upon payment of an additional fee shall be granted a license, which shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of its issuance and shall be renewed annually. Such fees shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven. The registrar shall issue a license certificate to each licensee, which certificate shall be conspicuously displayed in the place of business of the licensee.  Any original license may be suspended or revoked by the registrar for cause and any renewed license may be so suspended or revoked for cause occurring during the two years next preceding the date of such renewed license, after a hearing, due notice of which shall be mailed to the licensee at his last known address at least ten days prior to the date of said hearing.  The registrar may prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, and may provide that any violation thereof shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars.  Every licensee shall keep such records as the registrar may by regulation require, and he shall keep the records required by and be subject to the provisions of sections thirty-two C, thirty-two D and thirty-two E, and lessees of motorcycles shall be subject to the provisions of sections thirty-two C, thirty-two E and thirty-two F.  The colonel of the state police, the police commissioner in Boston, the chief of police of any other city, the selectmen of a town or any police officer authorized by any of said officials, or any person having police powers under section twenty-nine may at any time enter upon any premises used as the place of business of a licensee under this section, to ascertain how he conducts the same, and examine all records and vehicles used in connection with the licensed business.  Whoever engages in the business of leasing motorcycles without being licensed, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 32j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 32j - Vehicles in Fleet of Car-Sharing Organization; Display of Registration Plates

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 available to its members primarily for hourly or other short-term use through a self-service fully automated reservation system that periodically charges a use-based fee relating to a specific vehicle; provided, however, that ''car-sharing organization'' shall not include an arrangement where a separate written agreement is entered into each time a vehicle is transferred to a customer.  (b) Vehicles in a fleet of a car-sharing organization may display private passenger motor vehicle registration number plates issued by the registrar; provided, however, that a registered vehicle of any such organization which identifies the name of the organization by business markings thereon shall not be required to display a commercial registration plate if the markings are limited to the name, address, telephone number, logo or website address of the organization.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 33a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 33a - Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Registration; Signatures

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 of registration, a license to operate motor vehicles, any other certificate, or license, or any notice, issued under the provisions of any statute, or rule and regulation relating to motor vehicles, shall cease to be such registrar, deputy registrar or agent prior to the effective date thereof, such signature or facsimile shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes to the same extent as if he had remained in office until and including such effective date.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 33b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 33b - Traffic Control Signs, Safety Devices and Improvements; Installation and Construction Costs; High-Accident Locations; Funding Limits

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 high-accident locations in cities and towns, in accordance with the following procedure:  The department shall define high-accident locations and shall establish standards, rules and regulations, and shall determine final allocation of funds to the cities and towns. The amount to be paid by the treasurer shall be based upon certification to the treasurer by the department of the amount due. Payments in the amounts so certified shall be made by the state treasurer out of the Highway Fund, and shall be in addition to any other funds allocated to the several cities and towns for the improvement, maintenance, repair or construction of highways. Federal funds may be substituted for the commonwealth's share whenever such funds are available.  The amounts certified by the department to the treasurer pursuant to this section shall not exceed, in the aggregate, five million dollars in any one year.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 34 - Disposition of Fees

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 commonwealth relating to the use and operation of motor vehicles and trailers, shall be disposed of as follows: (i) $2 from every motorcycle registration issued pursuant to section 2 shall be deposited into the General Fund and used solely for the purpose of promoting and advancing motorcycle safety; (ii) all fees from the issuance of veterans plates pursuant to section 2, in excess of the fees set for the registration of the motor vehicle, shall be deposited into the General Fund; and (iii) any amount remaining after compliance with clauses (i) and (ii) shall be deposited into the Commonwealth Transportation Fund established in section 2ZZZ of chapter 29.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 34c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 34c - Single Motor Vehicle Liability Policy or Bond Covering Several Motor Vehicles

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 for registration of motor vehicles under section five, may, in lieu of procuring a separate policy or bond covering each motor vehicle, furnish a single motor vehicle liability policy or bond covering all motor vehicles owned or controlled by him, in which the amounts or limits of indemnity as provided in section thirty-four A for a motor vehicle liability policy or bond shall apply to each motor vehicle covered thereunder.
MA Gen L ch 90 § 34e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XIV - Public Ways and Works|Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft|Section 34e - Receipt for and Retention of Cash or Securities Deposited

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 securities deposited by him with said treasurer under section thirty-four D or thirty-four F. The state treasurer shall retain such cash or securities deposited as aforesaid and shall not deliver the same or the balance thereof to the registrant or his order until the expiration of the time within which actions, the payment of judgments in which are secured by such deposit, may be brought against the registrant or the person responsible for the operation of the registrant's motor vehicle with his express or implied consent, nor in any case if a written notice is filed with the state treasurer stating that such an action has been brought against the registrant or other person responsible as aforesaid, until payment is made as provided in section thirty-four D or satisfactory evidence is presented to said treasurer that such action is finally disposed of.