Maine
Maine Revised Statutes — Title 29-A, Motor Vehicles
608 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 2481 — Administrative procedures for suspension
- § 2482 — Notice of suspension or revocation of license
- § 2483 — Hearing request
- § 2484 — Hearing procedures
- § 2485 — Decision; appeal
- § 2486 — Reinstatement fee
- § 2487 — Proof of financial responsibility
- § 2501 — Restricted license
- § 2502 — Special licenses for driver education evaluation program; suspension
- § 2503 — Work-restricted license
- § 2504 — Conditional or restricted license upon completion of alcohol and drug program
- § 2505 — Special restricted license for participation in education and treatment programs
- § 2506 — Conditional license
- § 2507 — Ignition interlock device (REPEALED)
- § 2508 — Ignition interlock device
- § 251 — Records and databases related to driver's licenses and motor vehicles
- § 252 — Driver history records and databases
- § 2521 — Implied consent to chemical tests
- § 2522 — Accidents (REPEALED)
- § 2523 — Implied consent; commercial operators
- § 2524 — Administration of tests
- § 2525 — Drug impairment assessment
- § 2526 — Drug recognition experts
- § 2527 — Rules regulating sample collection and testing procedures
- § 2528 — Liability
- § 253 — Confidentiality of nongovernment vehicle records
- § 254 — Rented vehicles; records
- § 255 — Confidentiality for public safety
- § 2551 — Habitual offender (REPEALED)
- § 2551-A — Habitual offender
- § 2552 — Immediate revocation; duration of revocation
- § 2553 — Hearing procedure
- § 2554 — Relief from habitual offender status
- § 2555 — Revocation following restoration
- § 2556 — Work-restricted license for habitual offender
- § 2557 — Operating after habitual offender revocation (REPEALED)
- § 2557-A — Operating after habitual offender revocation
- § 2558 — Aggravated operating after habitual offender revocation
- § 256 — Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994
- § 257 — Confidentiality of technology system information (REPEALED)
- § 2601 — Summons and Complaint
- § 2602 — Jurisdiction
- § 2603 — Speedy trial (REPEALED)
- § 2604 — Traffic infraction; general penalty (REPEALED)
- § 2605 — Suspension on nonappearance or nonpayment of fine
- § 2605-A — Restricted license on nonappearance or nonpayment of fine (REPEALED)
- § 2606 — Enforcement of suspension
- § 2607 — Conviction record to Secretary of State; public record
- § 2608 — Suspension for failure to appear, answer or pay a fine in a traffic infraction offense
- § 351 — Registration required
- § 352 — Minors
- § 353 — Members of Armed Forces
- § 354 — Off-road vehicles
- § 401 — Application
- § 402 — Insurance required prior to registration
- § 403 — Motor vehicle emission inspection requirement for vehicle registration (REPEALED)
- § 404 — Carrying of registration
- § 405 — Expiration dates
- § 406 — Nontransferability of certificate
- § 407 — Defaced or missing identification numbers
- § 408 — Vehicles reported stolen
- § 409 — Collection of taxes
- § 410 — Voluntary surrender or cancellation
- § 411 — Multi-year fleet registration
- § 451 — Issuance and form of registration plates
- § 452 — Manner of display
- § 453 — Vanity registration plates
- § 454 — Commemorative registration plates
- § 455 — Environmental registration plates
- § 456 — University of Maine System; special registration plates
- § 456-A — Lobster registration plates
- § 456-B — Maine Black Bears registration plates
- § 456-C — Sportsman registration plates
- § 456-D — We Support Our Troops registration plates
- § 456-E — Breast cancer support services registration plate
- § 456-F — Agriculture education registration plate
- § 456-G — Support Animal Welfare registration plate
- § 456-H — The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital registration plates
- § 456-I — Maine Lighthouse Trust registration plates
- § 457 — Hobbyist registration plates
- § 458 — Stock race cars
- § 458-A — Modified show vehicle (REPEALED)
- § 458-B — Custom vehicles
- § 459 — Manufacturers, dealers, transporters, body shops, transmission shops and garages; special plates
- § 460 — State officials
- § 460-A — Honorary consul (REPEALED)
- § 461 — Reservation of same number
- § 462 — Temporary registration plates (REALLOCATED TO TITLE 29-A, SECTION 954-A)
- § 462-A — Temporary registration permit; United States Armed Forces deployments; rules
- § 463 — Disposition of registration plates
- § 464 — Unused registration plates
- § 465 — Loss of registration plates
- § 466 — Registration Plate Equipment and Production Program
- § 467 — Moratorium on specialty plates (REPEALED)
- § 468 — Specialty license plate
- § 468-A — Recognition license plates
- § 469 — Specialty License Plate Fund
- § 470 — Experimental motor vehicle plates and registration
- § 501 — Fees for registration; motor vehicles
- § 502 — Transfer and return of registration; prorated registration fees
- § 503 — Miscellaneous registration fees
- § 504 — Registration of trucks and truck tractors
- § 505 — Farm trucks
- § 506 — Registration fee for motor homes
- § 507 — Temporary registered gross weight increase
- § 508 — Truck campers (REPEALED)
- § 509 — Tractors
- § 510 — Exemption from registration
- § 511 — Trailers and semitrailers
- § 512 — Semipermanent and permanent registration plates for trailers and semitrailers
- § 513 — Special mobile equipment
- § 514 — Evasion of registration fees and excise taxes
- § 515 — Motorcycles and parking control vehicles
- § 515-A — Motorcycle registration plates
- § 515-B — Purple Heart medal recipients; special motorcycle registration plates
- § 516 — Stock car
- § 517 — Government vehicles
- § 517-A — Registration exemption for vehicles owned by veterans groups and used exclusively for ceremonial activities
- § 517-B — Registration exemption for antique farm tractors used in demonstrations, parades, ceremonies and organized charitable events
- § 518 — Emergency vehicles
- § 519 — Registration plates for firefighters
- § 519-A — Registration plates for emergency medical services persons
- § 520 — Special equipment
- § 521 — Registration; disability registration plates
- § 522 — Deaf, hard-of-hearing and late-deafened persons (REPEALED)
- § 523 — Certain veterans
- § 524 — Other special veterans registration plates
- § 524-A — Wabanaki registration plates
- § 524-B — Gold star family registration plates
- § 525 — Fuel tax licensing and reporting
- § 526 — Surcharge on certain registrations (REPEALED)
- § 531 — Application of the International Registration Plan; apportioned registrations
- § 532 — Vehicles registered pursuant to the plan
- § 533 — Use of apportioned excise tax (REPEALED)
- § 533-A — Municipal Excise Tax Reimbursement Fund
- § 551 — Multistate agreement and federal programs
- § 552 — Operating authority license required (REPEALED)
- § 553 — Identification device (REPEALED)
- § 554 — Lapse of license (REPEALED)
- § 555 — Bureau of State Police; enforcement
- § 555-A — United States Department of Transportation census number
- § 556 — Exemptions
- § 557 — Municipal authority
- § 558 — Violation of provisions of this subchapter (REPEALED)
- § 558-A — Violation of provisions of subchapter
- § 558-B — Notification by court to Secretary of State of a failure to appear or noncompliance with court order; resulting suspension
- § 559 — Agents for service of process (REPEALED)
- § 560 — Certificate of Chief of State Police; Secretary of State
- § 561 — Transportation Safety Fund (REPEALED)
- § 561-A — Fines and fees
- § 562 — Motor Carrier Review Board (REPEALED)
- § 601 — Short title; construction
- § 602 — Definitions
- § 603 — Fees
- § 651 — Certificate of title required
- § 651-A — Require certificate of lien; certificate of title; certificate of salvage; electronic lien titling program
- § 651-B — Certificate of title permissible
- § 652 — Exempted vehicles
- § 653 — Certificate of origin
- § 654 — Application for certificate of title and certificate of salvage
- § 655 — Missing ownership documents or assignments
- § 656 — Secretary of State to check identification number
- § 657 — Issuance of certificate
- § 658 — Information contained on certificates
- § 659 — Withholding of certificate of title or certificate of salvage; bond required
- § 660 — Refusal of certificate of title or salvage
- § 661 — Duplicate certificate of title, certificate of salvage or certificate of lien
- § 662 — Transfer of interest in vehicle
- § 663 — Transfer on death of spouse
- § 664 — Resale by dealer (REPEALED)
- § 664-A — Resale by dealer
- § 665 — Involuntary transfers of interest in motor vehicle
- § 666 — Records of surrendered certificates of title
- § 667 — Salvage
- § 668 — Suspension or revocation of certificate of title or certificate of salvage
- § 669 — Cancellation of certificate of title to manufactured housing and tiny homes
- § 670 — Maine Lemon Law vehicle
- § 701 — Creation of security interests
- § 702 — Perfecting security interest
- § 703 — Exemptions
- § 704 — Assignment of security interest
- § 705 — Release of security interest
- § 706 — Lienholder to furnish information
- § 707 — Method of perfecting security interest exclusive
- § 708 — Manufactured housing or tiny home
- § 751 — Altering, forging or counterfeiting certificates
- § 752 — Odometers; transfers
- § 752-A — Exempted odometer information
- § 753 — Other offenses
- § 754 — Examination and impoundment of vehicle
- § 755 — Report of theft; recovery of unclaimed vehicle
- § 756 — Impeachment of defendant
- § 851 — Definitions
- § 852 — Fees
- § 853 — Suspension and revocation
- § 901 — Application
- § 902 — Action on application for dealer license
- § 903 — Grounds for denying, suspending, revoking or modifying dealer license
- § 904 — Vicarious liability
- § 951 — Licensing of dealers