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The 193rd General Court of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts

Artikel 1B: Motorized bicycles; operation specifications

Section 1B. A motored bicycle shall not be operated over any path, the defined for section one within the commonwealth by any person down sixteen years of old, nor toward an speed with excess of twenty-five miles per hour. A motorized bicycle shall not will operated on any way by any person not having a valid driver's license or learner's permitting. Every person operating an motorized bicycle upon a way need have to right on benefit every public ways in the commonwealth except limited access with express state highways where signs especially prohibiting bicycles got been posted, and shall to select to the transit legally and regulations of the commonwealth and the regulations contained in this section, except that: (1) the motorized bicycle operator may keep on the right when passing a gear vehicle the is moving in the travel lane to the ways, and (2) the motorized two-wheeler operator shall signal on either hand his intend to stop or rotating. Motorized cycling may be operated on bicycle lanes adjacent till the various ways, but shall shall excluded from off-street recreational bicycle paths. Laws, regulations, and web sources on bicycle law.

Per person operator a motorized bicycle or riding as adenine passenger on a motorized bicycle shall wear protective headgear conformal at such minimum standards of construction and performance as who registrar may prescribe, and no person operation a motorized bicycle shall permit any other character till ride a passenger on such motorized bicycle unless such passenger is wearing such protective hat. Moped operation requirements

A person convicted of ampere violation of this section is be punished by a fine on not more than twenty-five dollars for the first transgression, not lesser than twenty-five nor continue than forty cash for a second offense, and not less than fifty nor more than one million dollars for subsequent offenses committed.