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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7aa - Child Passenger Restraints; Fine; Violation as Evidence in Civil Action

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 restraint, unless such passenger measures more than 57 inches in height. The child passenger restraint shall be properly fastened and secured according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Unless required to be properly fastened and secured by a child passenger restraint under the preceding paragraph, a passenger in a motor vehicle on any way that is under the age of 13 shall wear a safety belt which is properly adjusted and fastened according to the manufacturer's instructions.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to any such child who is: (1) riding as a passenger in a school bus; (2) riding as a passenger in a motor vehicle made before July first, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, that is not equipped with safety belts; (3) physically unable to use either a conventional child passenger restraint or a child restraint specifically designed for children with special needs; provided, however, that such condition is duly certified in writing by a physician who shall state the nature of the disability as well as the reasons such restraints are inappropriate; provided, further, that no such certifying physician shall be subject to liability in a civil action for the issuance of or for the failure to issue such certificate. An operator of a motor vehicle who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars; provided, however, that said twenty-five dollar fine shall not apply to an operator of a motor vehicle licensed as a taxi cab not equipped with a child passenger restraint device.
A violation of this section shall not be used as evidence of contributory negligence in any civil action.
A person who receives a citation for a violation of any of the provisions of this section may contest such citation pursuant to section three of chapter ninety C. A violation of this section shall not be deemed to be a conviction of a moving violation of the motor vehicle laws for the purpose of determining surcharges on motor vehicle premiums pursuant to section one hundred and thirteen B of chapter one hundred and seventy-five.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7c - Minimum Standards for Construction and Equipment of School Buses

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 buses, which shall apply to all school buses without regard to any prior date when they were operated as such. A violation of any rule or regulation made under this section shall be punished in the same manner as a violation of a rule or regulation made under section thirty-one. Such rules and regulations shall not apply to a motor vehicle operated by a holder of a certificate issued under section seven of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine A and a permit issued under section eight of said chapter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7cc - Transporting of Special Needs Children

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 shall conspicuously display, in lettering, not less than four inches square, on such motor vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7d - Application of Sec. 7b; Additional Equipment

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 carrying not more than eight passengers in addition to the operator, used in the business of transporting school pupils for hire under terms of contract or otherwise, while so used, but not including any motor vehicle used for not more than five days in case of emergency; provided, however, the eight lamp system, so-called, required on certain motor vehicles in clause (7) of said section seven B shall not apply to vehicles specified in this section. In addition, each such vehicle shall be required to be equipped with one pair of adequate chock blocks, a fire extinguisher, three flares in compliance with United States Motor Vehicle D.O.T. Safety Standard No. 125, which shall be placed upon the roadway in conformance with section fourteen B of chapter eighty-five when such vehicle becomes disabled upon the traveled portion of any way, and seat belts for each permanent seating accommodation designed and installed in compliance with applicable United States Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. No person shall operate a motor vehicle referred to in this section, nor knowingly allow any passenger to ride in such vehicle unless the operator and all passengers are wearing a safety belt which is properly adjusted and fastened. All such motor vehicles used to transport school pupils under the provisions of this section shall display the distinctive number plate as authorized by section two.
The provisions of this section, excluding the seatbelt requirement, shall not apply to the transportation of school pupils in vehicles not exceeding fourteen passengers in addition to the operator which is provided (a) by an operator who is uncompensated for his or her service and is either a parent and one adult (monitor) of one of the passengers or is a person chosen by the parents of all the passengers; or (b) for activities related to a private school, child care center, camp, school-age child care program, or a special needs program as defined by section one of chapter seventy-one B, who would not be picked up or discharged on a fixed route, provided, that for the purpose of this section, the term fixed route shall be defined as the transportation of a school pupil on a pre-determined daily basis to and from a set location, for the length of the pupils school year, provided the operator is a person whose primary relationship to the passenger is that of teacher, coach, director, or caregiver, and not as an operator. Such vehicles shall not be considered school buses, school pupil transport vehicles or livery vehicles and shall be registered as private passenger motor vehicles.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7d1/2 - Transportation of Vocational School Students; Motor Vehicle Requirements; Seat Belts

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 to transport vocational school students participating in a work project to and from the work site and having permanent seating accommodations for not more than fourteen persons in addition to the operator. In addition, each such vehicle shall be required:
(1) To provide adequate space for the secured and affixed storage of all tools, equipment and materials to be transported;
(2) To be operated by a person eighteen years of age or over who has had at least three years of licensed driving experience and who is duly licensed by his state of residence for operation of the class of vehicle being operated and has said license in his possession.
(3) To be equipped with one pair of adequate chock blocks and three flares in compliance with United States motor vehicle D.O.T. Safety Standards No. 125 which shall be placed upon the roadway in compliance with section fourteen B of chapter eighty-five when such vehicle becomes disabled upon the traveled portion of any street or highway; and
(4) To be equipped with a seat belt for each permanent seating accommodation designed and installed in compliance with United States motor vehicle D.O.T. safety standards, which seat belt shall be fastened about each passenger at all times during vehicle operation.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7g - Used Brake Drums; Servicing, Sale or Grinding; Prohibition

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 interior diameter of which exceeds sixty-thousandths of one inch maximum oversize, nor shall any person turn or grind a used brake drum for use on a passenger vehicle to an interior diameter any greater than sixty-thousandths of one inch maximum oversize. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars. No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell any brake drum or brake disc designed for use on a motor vehicle, which drum or disc was manufactured after January first, nineteen hundred and seventy-one, whether as original or replacement equipment, unless such drum or disc is permanently and plainly marked to clearly indicate the maximum safe diameter or minimum safe thickness to which it may be worn, ground or turned; provided, that after said date no person shall install on any motor vehicle or trailer any brake drum the inside diameter of which exceeds said maximum safe diameter nor shall any person install any disc brake rotor the thickness of which is less than said minimum safe thickness.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7h - Brake Linings; Minimum Safety Standards

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 approved by the registrar. Under authority granted by section seven, the registrar shall adopt such regulations governing types and specifications of brake linings as to comply with approved safety standards, and shall establish and maintain an approved list of brake linings which meet the specifications so established.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7i - Emergency Disaster Service Vehicles of Charitable Corporations; Identification and Equipment

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 used for the benefit of firemen, policemen, civil defense workers and victims of fires and disasters, shall be furnished, without charge, by the registrar at his office, a number plate of the type and design furnished to ambulances, fire engines and fire apparatus. Such emergency disaster service vehicles may be equipped with sirens or other audible warning devices and with visible warning devices as provided in section seven E. Such audible and visible warning devices may be used by the vehicle operator only when responding to an official alarm of fire or disaster and at no other time. Every such emergency disaster service motor vehicle shall be marked, on a part of the vehicle not readily removable, and in a conspicuous place, with the insignia of the corporation and with words identifying the vehicle as an emergency disaster service unit.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7j - Handlebars on Motorcycles; Rules and Regulations; Penalty

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 such rules and regulations attested by the registrar shall be prima facie evidence that they have been made as provided by law. Whoever violates any rule or regulation made under the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars for the first offense and not more than fifty dollars for a second or subsequent offense.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7k - Tires; Minimum Safety Standards; Penalty

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 January first, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight for use on any motor vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer unless such tire complies with such minimum safety standards for construction and performance as the registrar shall prescribe. In no event shall such standards be below those adopted from time to time by the general services administration of the United States government.
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen days, or both.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7l - Standing in School Buses; Penalty

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 a school bus shall not allow the number of school children riding in the bus at any one time to exceed the number of seats therein, nor shall he drive said bus until each child is seated. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7m - Retread or Recapped Tires; Sale; Marking Quality

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 vehicle or trailer, on public highways any tire which: (a) has been retreaded or recapped unless such tire has been permanently marked on both sides thereof with the word ''retread'', ''retreaded'', ''recap'' or ''recapped''; or (b) is of other than first quality unless such tire has been permanently marked on both sides thereof with a descriptive term indicating that the tire does not meet the manufacturer's standard quality or appearance specifications for such brand of tire, such as: ''blem'', ''second'', ''imperfect'' or similar appropriate descriptive term. The markings required hereunder shall be in letters at least three sixteenths of an inch in height and shall be so placed as to be plainly visible.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7n - Voiding Contracts of Sale

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 seven days from the date of such sale, the periodic staggered inspection at an inspection station licensed pursuant to section seven W; provided, that the defects which are the reasons for the failure to issue a certificate of inspection were not caused by the abusive or negligent operation of the motor vehicle or by damage resulting from an accident or collision occurring after the date of the sale; and provided, further, that the cost of repairs necessary to permit the issuance of a certificate of inspection exceeds ten per cent of the purchase price of the motor vehicle.
In order to void a motor vehicle sale under this section the buyer shall, within fourteen days from the date of sale, notify the seller of his intention to do so, deliver the motor vehicle to the seller, provide the seller with a written statement signed by an authorized agent of such inspection station stating the reasons why the motor vehicle failed to pass the safety or combined safety and emissions inspection and an estimate of the cost of necessary repairs. The buyer shall be entitled to a refund of his purchase price unless the buyer and seller agree in writing that the seller may make the necessary repairs at his own cost and expense within a reasonable period of time thereafter. This section shall apply only to motor vehicles purchased for the immediate personal or family use of the buyer.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7o - Motor Vehicle Pollutant Control Devices; Removal

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 or motor vehicle engine in compliance with regulations under the National Emission Standards Act (42 USC 1857f–1), unless such device or element is to be replaced by or modified by another device or element, approved by the registrar, the installation of which will result in a reduction of pollutant emission.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7p - Height of Motor Vehicles; Alteration Restricted

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 including ten thousand pounds, by elevating or lowering the chassis or body by more than two inches above or below the original manufacturer's specified height by use of so-called ''shackle lift kits'' for leaf springs or by use of lift kits for coil springs, tires, or any other means or device.
The registrar shall establish rules and regulations for such changes in the height of motor vehicles beyond said two inches. No motor vehicle that has been so altered, modified or changed beyond the provisions of this section or the rules and regulations established by the registrar shall be operated on any way.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7q - Tire Tread Depth Regulations; Compliance; Operation of Vehicle Prohibited

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 visual and tread depth, shall operate such vehicle upon any way; and no owner of a motor vehicle, knowing that any tire of such vehicle fails to comply with such regulations, shall permit such vehicle to be so operated.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7r - Vehicle Identification Number; Display in Certain Motor Vehicles

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 sections two to five, inclusive, shall be equipped with and display a vehicle identification number, in accordance with such minimum requirements and design as the registrar may prescribe under rules and regulations made by him.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7r1/2 - Dealers Insignias, Logos or Plates; Placement on Motor Vehicles; Consent

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 that advertises the name of the seller without first having obtained the written consent of the buyer of such motor vehicle. Such seller must provide a buyer with a written consent form at the time of the purchase of the motor vehicle. The original of such written consent form shall be retained by the seller and a copy retained by the buyer. Any such seller's failure to obtain written consent from the buyer shall enable the buyer to request that the seller remove any insignia, logo or plate and make all repairs necessary to restore the motor vehicle to its original condition. Each seller shall post in a conspicuous place, a notice explaining the buyer's rights under this section.
Any violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7s - Motorcycle Sound Emissions; Definitions

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 level'', the sound level in decibels as measured on a sound level meter using the A–weighting network. The level is designated dB(A).
''Decibel (dB)'', a unit for measuring the volume of a sound, equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the pressure of the sound measured to the reference pressure; which is 20 micropascals or 20 micronewtons per square meter.
''Motorcycle'', any motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, including any bicycle with a motor or driving wheel attached, except a tractor or a motor vehicle designed for carrying golf clubs and not more than four persons, an industrial three-wheel truck, or a motor vehicle on which the operator and passengers ride within an enclosed cab.
''Person'', any individual, association, partnership, or corporation, and includes any officer, employee, department, agency or instrumentality of the commonwealth or any political subdivision of the commonwealth.
''Registrar'', the registrar of motor vehicles.
''Sound level'', the weighted sound pressure level obtained by the use of a sound level meter and frequency weighting network, such as A, B or C as specified in American National Standards Institute specifications for sound level meters (ANSI S1.4–1971). If the frequency weighting employed is not indicated, the A-weighting shall apply.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7t - Motorcycle Sound Levels; Testing Regulations

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 criteria and moving and stationary vehicle measurement procedures and shall take into consideration accepted scientific and professional methods for the measurement of vehicular sound levels. The measurement procedures shall include adjustment factors to be applied to the noise limit for measurement distances of other than fifty feet from the center of the lane of travel and shall allow the extent feasible sound level measurement and enforcement action to be accomplished in reasonably confined areas such as residential areas of urban cities and off highway locations. Test procedures established by the registrar shall be in substantial conformance with applicable standards and practices established or recommended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7u - Motorcycles; Maximum Sound Levels

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 ninety at any time or under any condition of grade, load, acceleration or deceleration in such a manner as to exceed eighty-two decibels when operated within a speed zone of forty-five miles per hour or less, or in such a manner as to exceed eighty-six decibels when operated within a speed zone of over forty-five miles per hour measured at fifty feet using the prescribed highway vehicle sound level measurement procedure.
No person shall operate a motorcycle intended for use off the highways of the commonwealth and registered under the provisions of section twenty-two of chapter ninety B at any time that exceeds one hundred and three decibels measured at twenty inches, or one-half meter, using the prescribed stationary vehicle sound level measurement procedure. For enforcement purposes a tolerance of plus two decibels shall be applied to all measured sound levels of in-use vehicles to provide for variances in equipment calibration, measurement site characteristics and measurement techniques.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7v - Certificates of Inspection; Rules and Regulations

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 the following:
(a) motor vehicles meeting the inspection requirements established by the registrar under section seven A shall be issued a certificate of inspection which shall be proof that said motor vehicle has passed the required inspection;
(b) the requirement that motor vehicles failing to comply with the motor vehicle emission standards established by the commissioner of environmental protection under the provisions of section one hundred and forty-two J of chapter one hundred and eleven or failing to comply with the safety standards as required by the registrar under section seven A shall be issued a certificate of rejection indicating that the motor vehicle has failed the initial emissions inspection or safety inspection as required by said section seven A; and
(c) a procedure for permitting the reinspection of any motor vehicle that has been issued a certificate of rejection and has had all necessary repairs performed on said vehicle; provided, however, that said reinspection be performed by the original inspection station without payment of any additional fee.
Any regulation, as defined in section one of chapter thirty A, or any amendment or repeal of any such regulation adopted by the registrar pursuant to this section, shall, after compliance with all applicable provision of said chapter thirty A, except section five, shall be submitted to the general court. Said registrar shall file the proposed regulation, amendment or repeal with the clerk of the house of representatives, together with a statement that the pertinent provisions of said chapter thirty A, except section five have been complied with. Such regulations shall be accompanied by a summary of the regulations in layman's terms. The clerk of the house of representatives, with the approval of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, shall refer such regulations to the appropriate joint standing committee. Within thirty days after such referral, such committee may hold a public hearing on the regulations and shall issue a report to the registrar. Said registrar shall review said report and shall adopt final regulations as deemed appropriate in view of said report and shall file with the chairmen of such reporting committee its final regulations, not earlier than thirty days after the filing of such report with the said chairmen. Said registrar shall file the final regulations with the state secretary as provided in section five of said chapter thirty and said regulations shall thereupon take effect.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7w - Licensing of Safety and Emissions Inspection Facilities and Technicians; Rules and Regulations; Penalties; Computerized Communication System

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 unless such person is licensed by the registrar.
The registrar, in consultation with the commissioner of environmental protection, shall establish rules and regulations for the licensing and operating requirements of all stations or facilities that conduct inspections pursuant to said section 7A or said section 142J or 142M.
The registrar shall, upon request, issue a vehicle inspection station license for the inspection of motor vehicles pursuant to section 7A to a person holding a Class 1 license pursuant to section 58 of chapter 140 if that licensee has invested not less than $2,500,000 into the construction of a dealership and service facility or into the reconstruction or rehabilitation of an existing dealership and service facility; provided, however, that the licensee shall be properly equipped to conduct such inspections under the relevant rules and regulations; and provided further, that the licensee shall provide evidence of its investment in a form and format approved by the registrar.
The registrar, upon granting the opportunity for a hearing, may revoke or suspend any license or certification issued under this section or place conditions or limitations on such license for a violation of any rule or regulation promulgated hereunder.
A person who is convicted of a violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days or both such fine and imprisonment.
Notwithstanding the provision of section 30A, the registrar may allow access or inquiry into computer data files under the control of said registrar in order to facilitate the establishment of a computerized communication system between the registry, the department of environmental protection, inspection facilities and any other person or entity in order to enforce compliance with any inspection or enforcement requirements of this chapter or chapter 111 or any other law or rule or regulation related thereto.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7x - Designation of Referee Stations

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 to design, implement and operate said referee stations throughout the commonwealth for the purpose of reinspections and issuing certificates of waiver.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7y - Certification and Training of Inspectors; Rules and Regulations

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 regulations for the certification and training of such inspectors and shall provide that certification not be transferable between individuals. No person shall be certified unless he had demonstrated his competence by such examination, training, or other standard the commissioner may prescribe. The commissioner shall also revoke the certification of any inspector who intentionally fails to properly inspect a motor vehicle in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner under section one hundred and forty-two J of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws.
Any regulation, as defined in section one of chapter thirty A, or any amendment or repeal of any such regulation adopted by the commissioner pursuant to this section, shall, after compliance with all applicable provision of said chapter thirty A, except section five, shall be submitted to the general court. Said commissioner shall file the proposed regulation, amendment or repeal with the clerk of the house of representatives, together with a statement that the pertinent provisions of said chapter thirty A, except section five have been complied with. Such regulations shall be accompanied by a summary of the regulations in layman's terms. The clerk of the house of representatives, with the approval of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, shall refer such regulations to the appropriate joint standing committee. Within thirty days after such referral, such committee may hold a public hearing on the regulations and shall issue a report to the commissioner. Said commissioner shall review said report and shall adopt final regulations as deemed appropriate in view of said report and shall file with the chairmen of such reporting committee its final regulations, not earlier than thirty days after the filing of such report with the said chairmen. Said commissioner shall file the final regulations with the state secretary as provided in section five of said chapter thirty and said regulations shall thereupon take effect.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 7z - Entry on Premises of Inspection Stations; Examination of Records

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 records of such station for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of sections seven A, seven N, seven V and seven W. The commissioner shall establish procedures for the enforcement of the rules and regulations established under section one hundred and forty-two J of chapter one hundred and eleven of the General Laws.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8c - Medical Advisory Board; Standards of Fitness for Applicants for Learner's Permits or Licenses

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 shall serve as chairman thereof, and fifteen members appointed by the registrar and approved by said commissioner, who shall be registered under the laws of the commonwealth as qualified physicians, optometrists or chiropractors, but not more than one of said appointees shall be a chiropractor and not more than one of said appointees shall be an optometrist. The members of the said board except said commissioner, shall serve at the pleasure of the registrar. The registrar may refer to said board for advisory opinions on standards of fitness for applicants for learner's permits or licenses to operate motor vehicles, and, in addition, for advisory opinions on the applications of persons who apply for learner's permits or licenses to operate motor vehicles or whose right to operate has been suspended or revoked, or whenever the registrar has reason to believe that the operation of a motor vehicle by such persons upon any way or in any place to which members of the public have access as invitees or licensees would be a threat to the safety and the welfare of the public because of physical or mental disability. Upon receipt of an application for a medical exemption for the benefit of the owner or operator of a motor vehicle whose vision is determined by the board to be light sensitive or photosensitive, said board shall grant an exemption indicating the need for special window treatment as a medical necessity. The board shall meet at the call of said commissioner at such times and places as he may select, but shall convene at the request of the registrar. Said commissioner shall provide such facilities as he may determine to be necessary or appropriate to the function of the board. Each member of the board shall receive as compensation for his service thereon a sum not to exceed thirty-five dollars for each meeting he attends.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8g - Identification Cards for Persons Not Possessing Motor Vehicle Licenses; Lost, Destroyed or Mutilated Cards; Change of Name; Duplicate Cards

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 whom said card was issued shall obtain a duplicate card upon furnishing satisfactory proof of loss to the registrar and payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provisions of section three B of chapter seven. Any person who loses an identification card and who, after obtaining a duplicate, finds the original card, shall immediately surrender the original card to the registrar. The same documentary evidence shall be furnished for a duplicate as for an original identification card.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8h - Identification Cards for Persons Not Possessing Motor Vehicle Licenses; Fictitious, Fraudulent, or Altered Cards; Possession

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 card;
(b) lend his identification card to any other person or knowingly permit the use thereof by another;
(c) display or represent any identification card not issued to him as being his card;
(d) permit any unlawful use of an identification card issued to him;
(e) photograph, photostat, duplicate, or in any way reproduce any identification card or facsimile thereof in such a manner that it could be mistaken for a valid identification card, or display or have in his possession any such photograph, photostat, duplicate, reproduction, or facsimile unless authorized by the provisions of this chapter.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8i - Identification Cards for Persons Not Possessing Motor Vehicle Licenses; Description

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 bear the following:—''Commonwealth of Massachusetts''—''identification card No. '', ''this card is provided solely for the purpose of establishing that the bearer described on the card was not a holder of a valid license to operate motor vehicles as of the date of issuance of this card''. The identification card shall be sealed in transparent plastic or similar substance.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8j - Identification Cards for Persons Not Possessing Motor Vehicle Licenses; Change of Address

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 him, he shall, within thirty days thereafter, notify the registrar in writing of his old and new address. The registrar thereupon may take such action as necessary to insure that the identification card reflects the proper address of the identification card holder.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8k - Identification Cards for Persons Not Possessing Motor Vehicle Licenses; Cancellation

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 card may be made when such card has been issued through error when voluntarily surrendered to the registrar.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8l - Voter Registration Agency

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 under state and federal law therefor. Application forms and procedures used by the registry shall comply with the provisions of 42 USC 1973 gg–3 and 1973 gg–5 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, as may be amended from time to time.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 8m - 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

Section 8M. No person under 18 years of age shall hold in their hand or use a mobile telephone, hands-free mobile telephone or mobile electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on any public way. For the purposes of this section, a junior operator shall not be considered to be operating a motor vehicle if the vehicle is stationary and not located in a part of the public way intended for travel by a motor vehicle or bicycle.
A junior operator who violates the preceding paragraph shall be punished by a fine of $100 and shall have his license or permit suspended for 60 days for a first offense and shall not be eligible for license reinstatement until he also completes a program selected by the registrar that encourages attitudinal changes in young drivers; for a second offense by a fine of $250 and shall have his license or permit suspended for 180 days; and for a third or subsequent offense by a fine of $500 and shall have his license or permit suspended for 1 year.
It shall be an affirmative defense for a junior operator to produce evidence that the use of a mobile telephone, hands-free mobile telephone or mobile electronic device that is the basis of the alleged violation was for emergency purposes. For the purpose of this section, an emergency shall mean that the junior operator used the hands-free mobile telephone or mobile electronic device to communicate with another to report any of the following: (i) that the motor vehicle was disabled; (ii) that medical attention or assistance was required; (iii) that police intervention, fire department or other emergency service was necessary for the personal safety of the operator or a passenger; or (iv) that a disabled vehicle or an accident was present in the public way.
A first or second offense under this section shall not be a surchargeable incident under section 113B of chapter 175 or under a motor vehicle liability policy as defined in section 34A that is issued pursuant to said chapter 175; provided, however, that a third or subsequent offense under this section shall be a surchargeable incident under said section 113B of said chapter 175 or under a motor vehicle liability policy as defined in said section 34A that is issued pursuant to said chapter 175.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 9a - Safety Glass; Windshields, Windows

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 partitions, doors, windows or windshields of glass unless such glass is of a type known as safety glass. The term ''safety glass'', as used herein, shall include any glass designed to minimize the likelihood of personal injury from its breaking or scattering when broken. This section shall not apply to motor vehicles manufactured prior to January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 9b - Registration of Vehicles; Display of Number Plates; Application of Law

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 registrations and displaying plates issued by the armed forces of the United States in foreign countries for vehicles owned by military personnel, but said exemption shall be in effect for a period of only thirty days after the owner thereof has entered the commonwealth for the purpose of traveling either to his place of residence or to a point of military duty nor shall this chapter apply to such registration and display of number plates on fire apparatus or marked police vehicles from any one of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York providing that the state from which such fire apparatus or marked police vehicle comes does not require the registration of and the display of number plates on such apparatus or vehicle.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XIV - Public Ways and Works › Chapter 90 - Motor Vehicles and Aircraft › Section 9c - Repair of Tires on Trucks, Etc.

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 device in the inflation of tires on such rims.
Any person or business servicing multi-piece bus, trailer, tractor or truck rims shall prominently display instructions published by the United States Department of Transportation, or an equivalent display, which shall clearly state procedures involved in the servicing of such rims. For the purposes of this section servicing shall include the inflation of tires on such rims at the service facility.
Any business servicing multi-piece bus, trailer, tractor or truck rims shall train and instruct all employees who service multi-piece rim wheels in the safety procedures to be followed as specified in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standard Part 1910. Any business servicing multi-piece bus, trailer, tractor or truck rims shall not allow an employee to service any multi-piece rim wheel unless the employee has been trained and instructed in correct procedures of mounting, demounting, and all related services, activities and safety precautions for the rim type being serviced and the safe operating procedures as specified in said Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standard Part 1910. Information to be used in the training program shall include as a minimum criteria the data contained in said Occupational Safety and Health Administration Standard Part 1910.
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.