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• ATV Registration Fees and Age Requirements
• All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Laws and Rules
• Summary of Penalties for ATV

ATV Registration Fees and Age Requirements

Registration Fees

Residents	Nonresidents	Antique ATV
$45* Prior to registration, sales or use taxes are due.	Season: $90* 7-Twenty-four hours: $75*	$45 Residents & Nonresidents

The flavour registration for an ATV is valid for i year, commencing on July 1st of each yr.
* Plus agent fee

Age Requirements**

• A person under 10 years of age may not operate an ATV.
• A person ten years of age or older but under 16 years of historic period may not operate an ATV unless that person has successfully completed a training course canonical by the department and is accompanied past an adult. Proof of having completed a training course must exist presented for inspection upon request of a constabulary enforcement officer.
• A person under 16 years of historic period may not cantankerous a public way maintained for travel unless the crossing is in accordance with section 13157-A, subsection 6, paragraph A and the person satisfies the requirements of 13154-A.

** Note: The requirements listed above donot apply to the operation of an ATV on:

1. The country on which the operator is domiciled;
2. Land owned or leased by the operator's parent or guardian; or
3. A safety training site approved past the department

Resident means a denizen of the United States or a person who is not a citizen of the United States who has been domiciled in the State for 1 year who:

• If registered to vote, is registered in this state.
• If licensed to drive a motor vehicle, has made awarding for or possesses a motor vehicle operator's license issued by the land.
• If owning a motor vehicle located within the state, has registered each such vehicle in the state.
• Is in compliance with the state income revenue enhancement laws.
• Is a full-time student at a Maine college or university who satisfies above requirements.

Nonresident ways a person who does not fall within the definition of a resident.

Costless ATV WEEKEND: AUGUST 19-21, 2022

During Free ATV weekend a nonresident may operate in Maine on an ATV that is non registered in Maine if the nonresident's ATV has a valid registration from another country or Canadian province.

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All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Laws and Rules

Championship 12, Chapter 933

§13001 – Definitions.

As used in this subpart, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms accept the following meanings.

Accompanied past adult."Accompanied past an developed" means, with respect to performance of an ATV, within visual and voice contact and nether the constructive control of a child's parent or guardian or another person 21 years of age or older.

All-terrain vehicle or ATV. "All-terrain vehicle" or "ATV" means a motor- driven, off-road, recreational vehicle capable of cross-country travel on land, snow, ice, marsh, swampland or other natural terrain. "All-terrain vehicle" or "ATV" includes, only is not limited to, a multitrack, multiwheel or low-pressure tire vehicle; a motorbike or related 2-wheel, 3-wheel or belt-driven vehicle; an amphibious machine; or other means of transportation deriving motive power from a source other than musculus or air current. For purposes of this subpart, "all-terrain vehicle" or "ATV" does non include an automobile as defined in Title 29-A, section 101, subsection vii; an electric personal assistive mobility device as defined in Title 29-A, section 101, subsection 22-A; a truck as defined in Title 29-A, section 101, subsection 88; a snowmobile; an airmobile; a structure or logging vehicle used in performance of its common functions; a farm vehicle used for farming purposes; or a vehicle used exclusively for emergency, armed forces, law enforcement or burn control purposes.

Alpine tundra. "Alpine tundra" ways high meridian, treeless areas beyond the timberline that are dominated by low herbaceous or shrubby vegetation and, specifically, areas that are designated every bit alpine tundra by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry by rule pursuant to Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2.

New definition: Antique all-terrain vehicle or antique ATV. "Antique all-terrain vehicle" or "antique ATV" means an all-terrain vehicle more than 25 years old that is substantially maintained in its original or restored condition. Enforcement Fund established nether section 10258.

Dwelling. "Dwelling" means whatsoever edifice used equally a permanent residence or identify of domicile.

Freshwater marshes and bogs. "Freshwater marshes and bogs" means naturally occurring open areas with saturated soils or peat, often associated with standing h2o and dominated past depression herbaceous vegetation, grasses, weeds and shrubs and including wetlands, equally shown on the Freshwater Wetlands Map Serial, Sectionalisation of Geology, Natural Areas and Coastal Resources, Maine Geological Survey, or zoned as a Wetland Protection Subdistrict, P-WL, by the Maine Land Use Planning Committee.

Operate. "To operate," in all its moods and tenses, when information technology refers to an ATV, means to use an ATV in any way within the jurisdiction of the State, whether or not the vehicle is moving.

Operator. "Operator" ways the person who is in control or in charge of an ATV while it is in use.

Updated definition in 2021: Owner. "Owner" means: For the purposes of registration of an ATV, a person holding title to an ATV or having equitable interest in an ATV that entitles the person to possession of the ATV.

Private Style Equally defined by Title 23, section 1903-10-A,. "Private Way" means a private route, driveway, or public easement. "Public easement" means an easement held by a municipality for purposes of public access to land or water non otherwise connected to a public fashion, and includes all rights enjoyed by the public with respect to individual ways dedicated to the public.

Protective headgear. "Protective headgear" means a helmet that conforms with minimum standards of construction and performance as prescribed by the American National Standards Institute specification Z90.one or past the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 218.

Public Way, Every bit defined by Championship 23, section 1903-11. "Public Way" means any road capable of carrying motor vehicles, including, simply not limited to, any pike, municipal road, county road, unincorporated territory route, or other road defended to the public.

§13002 – Drove past Commissioner.

The commissioner or agents of the commissioner shall deed on behalf of the State Tax Assessor to collect the employ tax due under Championship 36, chapters 211 to 225 in respect to whatsoever ATV for which an original registration is required under this Title at the time and place of registration of that ATV.

All taxes nerveless pursuant to this section must exist transmitted forthwith to the Treasurer of State and credited to the General Fund as undedicated revenue. The Legislature shall appropriate to the department in each fiscal yr an amount equal to the authoritative costs incurred by the department in collecting revenue under this department. Those administrative costs must be verified by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services.

For purposes of this section, "original registration" means any registration other than a renewal of registration by the same owner.

§13003 – Payment of sales or utilise tax prerequisite to registration.

2. Registration of ATV. Prior to registering an ATV, an agent of the commissioner shall collect sales or apply revenue enhancement due. Sales or utilise taxation is due unless:

A. The person registering the ATV is non a resident of this State;

B. The registration is a renewal registration by the same owner;

C. The bidder possesses a dealer's certificate showing that the sales tax was collected past the dealer. The Country Tax Assessor shall prescribe the form of a dealer's certificate. D. The ATV is otherwise exempt from sales or use tax under Championship 36, section 1760.

§13004 – Collection by State Revenue enhancement Assessor. This section and sections 13002, 13003 and 13005 must be construed equally cumulative of other methods prescribed in Title 36 for the collection of the sales or use tax. These sections do not prevent the State Revenue enhancement Assessor's collecting the taxation due in respect to any watercraft, ATV or snowmobile in accordance with such other methods as are prescribed in Title 36 for the drove of the sales or apply tax.

§13005 – Certificates to exist forwarded to State Revenue enhancement Assessor. An amanuensis of the commissioner shall promptly forward all certificates submitted in accord with section 13003 to the commissioner. The commissioner shall transmit all such certificates to the State Tax Assessor.

§13006 – Impoundment of ATVs. When a law enforcement officeholder issues a summons for a violation under affiliate 939, the officer may impound the ATV operated past the person who receives the summons if, in the judgment of the officer, based on actual previous offenses by the operator or other considerations, the operator will go along to operate the ATV in violation of chapter 939 and that operation may be a hazard to the safety of persons or property.

The operator or possessor of an ATV impounded under this section may reclaim the ATV at any time subsequent to 24 hours after the issuance of the summons upon payment of the costs of impoundment to the enforcement agency impounding the ATV.

§13107 – Unlawfully operating vehicle on snowmobile trail. A person may not operate any iv-wheel bulldoze vehicle, dune buggy, all-terrain vehicle, motorcycle, or whatsoever other motor vehicle, other than a snowmobile and appurtenant equipment, on snowmobile trails that are financed in whole or in part with funds from the Snowmobile Trail Fund, unless that use has been authorized by the landowner or the landowner'due south agent, or unless the employ is necessitated by an emergency involving safety or persons or property.

Exception: An ATV with tracks, registered as a snowmobile, may be operated on snowmobile trails.

Title 12, Affiliate 939

§13152 – License and training.

ane. License. An operator's license is non required for the performance of an ATV, except as required past Title 29-A.

2. Training. A person 10 years of age or older but under 16 years of age must successfully complete a grooming program, with that person's parent or guardian approved by the department prior to operating an ATV except on:

A. State on which that person is domiciled;

B. Country endemic or leased by that person's parent or guardian; or

C. A safety preparation site approved by the department.

A person under 16 years of historic period must attend the training program with that person'south parent or guardian. The training program must include instruction on the condom operation of ATVs, the laws pertaining to ATVs, the upshot of ATVs on the environment and ways to minimize that issue, courtesy to landowners and other recreationists and landowners and other materials as determined by the section.

§13153 – Dominion violations; ATVs.

The post-obit penalties employ to violations of rules regulating ATVs.

1. Ceremonious. Notwithstanding section 10650, a person who violates a dominion regulating ATVs commits a civil violation for which a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 may exist adjudged.

two. Criminal. A person who violates a rule regulating ATVs after having been adjudicated every bit having committed 3 or more than civil violations under this Part within the previous 5-year period commits a Class Due east crime.

§13154-A – Historic period restrictions.

1. Minimum historic period. Except as provided in subsection 5, a person under 10 years of age may not operate an ATV.

two. Permitting child less than 10 years to operate ATV. Except as provided in subsection 6, a person may non permit a child under 10 years of age to operate an ATV.

3. Unlawfully operating ATV by person ages 10 to 16 years of age. Except every bit provided in subsection half dozen, a person x years of historic period or older but nether 16 years of historic period may not operate an ATV unless that person has successfully completed a training course canonical by the section pursuant to section 13152 and is accompanied past an adult. Proof of having completed a training course must exist presented for inspection upon request of a police enforcement officer.

4. Person under xvi years of age crossing public fashion. A person under 16 years of historic period may not cross a public way maintained for travel unless the crossing is in accord with department 13157-A, subsection 6, paragraph A and the person satisfies the requirements of subsection 3.

5. Permitting an unaccompanied person under 16 years of historic period to operate an ATV. Except as provided in subsection 6, a person may non permit an unaccompanied person 10 years of age or older but under xvi years of historic period to operate an ATV.

6. Exceptions for certain holding. This section does not apply to the performance of an ATV on:

A. The land on which the operator is domiciled;

B. Land owned or leased by the operator's parent or guardian; or

C. A safety grooming site approved by the section.

§13155 – Registration.

1-A. Operating unregistered ATV. Except as provided in paragraph A, a person may not operate an ATV that is not registered in accord with subsection 3.

A. The following exceptions utilize.

(1) Registration is not required for an ATV operated on land that the ATV operator owns or leases, regardless of where that ATV operator is domiciled, as long equally the ATV is not operated elsewhere inside the jurisdiction of the State.

(2) Registration is non required for an ATV operated by a commercial ski area for the purpose of packing snow or for rescue operations on the commercial ski surface area, unless the ATV is required to cross a public mode during that functioning.

(3) An ATV owned and operated in the State past the Federal Authorities, the State or a political subdivision of the State is exempt from registration fees simply must be registered and is required to display registration numbers.

(iv) An ATV registration for the subcontract use specified in Title 29-A, section 501, subsection 8, paragraph E is not required for a vehicle registered with the Secretarial assistant of Country under Title 29-A, section 501, subsection eight.

(5) An ATV registered in another state or in a Canadian province may be operated without being registered pursuant to this department at a special event organized to occur in this State if the special event organizer submits a request in writing to the commissioner 60 days prior to the special outcome and provides the commissioner with a map of the trails to be used during the special event and the commissioner approves the asking.

(half dozen) An ATV endemic or under the command of an ATV manufacturer may be operated without a Maine registration at a demonstration event organized to occur in this State if such operation is approved by the commissioner. An ATV manufacturer or a representative of an ATV manufacturer must submit a asking in writing to the commissioner at least 60 days prior to the demonstration event and shall include a clarification and the location of the event.

(7) The Commissioner may annually plant 1 three-consective-day period, ii days of which are weekend days, during which a non-resident may operate an ATV that is not registered in Maine, if the non-resident's ATV has a valid registration from another state or a Canadian province.

2. Reciprocity. Reciprocity was repealed in 2004 then in that location are no longer reciprocal privileges for ATV registrations. A Maine ATV registration is required for nonresidents to operate an ATV in the State of Maine.

3. Updated law in 2021: Awarding and issuance. The commissioner, or an agent designated by the commissioner, may register and assign a registration number to an ATV upon application and payment of a fee by the possessor. Th commissioner shall accuse a fee of $i in addition to the fee for each registration issued past an employee of the department. The registration number in the form of stickers issued by the commis sioner must be clearly displayed on the front and rear of the vehicle. An annual registration is valid for ane year commencing July 1st of each year, except that any registration issued prior to July 1st but after May 1st is valid from the engagement of issuance until June 30th of the post-obit yr. A registration agent shall provide to the person who requests to register an oversized ATV under subsection v-B a written class developed and provided by the department explaining the size and weight restrictions for registering that ATV, including whether it qualifies for registration, and explaining the provisions of section 13157-A regarding the functioning of oversized ATVs on designated land-approved ATV trails. The section shall develop a grade for use past registration agents under this subsection.

4. Form of registration. An ATV registration must be in such form equally the commissioner may make up one's mind.

5. Fees. See Registration Fees.

5-B. New constabulary in 2021: Oversized ATV. A person may not annals an oversized ATV except equally provided in this subsection. A resident who has registered an oversized ATV prior to January 1, 2022 may continue to register that oversized ATV upon payment of the fee specifie in subsection 5, paragraph A, and upon a transfer of ownership of that registered oversized ATV, the new Maine resident owner may also register that oversized ATV upon payment of the fee specified in subsection 5, paragraph A. For purposes of this subsection, "oversized ATV" means an ATV that is wider than 65 inches or weighs more than than 2,000 pounds according to the manufacturer's specifications.

v-C. New law in 2021: Antiquarian ATV. A person who owns an antiquarian ATV may register that ATV nether this subsection as an antique ATV. Notwithstanding subsection 5, the fee for an antique ATV registration is $45. An antiquarian ATV registration is valid until the buying of the ATV is transferred to some other person. Upon the transfer of ownership, the new owner may reregister that ATV every bit an antique ATV past paying the $45 antique ATV registration fee. Nonetheless section 10206, all registration fees for antique ATVs must exist deposited in the General Fund.

6. Duplicate registration document. The holder of a registration certificate issued under this section may obtain a duplicate registration from the commissioner upon application and payment of a indistinguishable fee of $1. If a sticker has been misplaced, a new sticker and a new registration matching the new sticker number must be obtained at a fee of $ane each. Agent fee also applies to all duplicates.

seven. Transfer of ownership, discontinuance of employ. A transfer of ownership or discontinuance of use of an all-terrain vehicle is subject area to this subsection.

A. Whoever transfers the ownership or discontinues the utilize of a registered all-terrain vehicle shall, inside 10 days, properly sign the registration, point the disposition of the all-terrain vehicle and return the registration to the commissioner.

B. An all-terrain vehicle owner who transfers buying or discontinues its use may, within ten days from the engagement of transfer or discontinuance, utilise to the commissioner for registration of some other all-terrain vehicle. The fee for the transfer is $four, and the registration is valid for the remainder of the registration year for which the previous all-terrain vehicle had been registered.

C. When there is a change of ownership of an all-terrain vehicle for which a registration has previously been issued, the new owner shall utilise for a new registration and shall pay the applicable fee nether subsection 5.

8-A. Updated law in 2021: Registration inspection. An possessor or operator of an ATV shall nowadays a registration certificate or an online registration receipt for inspection by whatsoever law enforcement officer on demand. An owner or operator of an ATV may present a registration document or an online registration receipt in electronic form.

8-B. Notification of destroyed, abandoned, stolen, or permanently removed ATV. The registrant shall notify the commissioner if an ATV is destroyed, abandoned, stolen, or permanently removed from the State.

ix. Display of registration numbers. Each new ATV sold in the Country must accept a space 6 inches in width past 3½ inches in height provided on the front end and rear of the machine, as high in a higher place the tires as possible, for the vertical brandish of the registration numbers. A person may non operate an ATV that is required to exist registered under this section unless registration numbers in the course of stickers are displayed in these spaces or every bit otherwise required by the department. A person may operate an ATV registered online without displaying a registration number until that person receives the registration certificate from the department or for xxx days subsequently registering the ATV online, whichever occurs kickoff.

10. Training and didactics. The department shall provide training and education relating to ATVs.

11. Members of the armed forces permanently stationed in the State of Maine. The following persons are eligible to register any ATV owned past them at the resident fee:

A. A person serving in the War machine of the U.s.a. who is permanently stationed at a armed services or naval post, station or base in the State; and

B. The spouse and children of the person described in paragraph A, provided that the spouse and children permanently reside with that person.

A member of the armed forces described in paragraph A who desires to register an ATV shall present certification from the commander of the post, station or base of operations, or from the commander'south designated agent, that the member is permanently stationed at that post, station or base of operations. Registration fees for registrations pursuant to this subsection must exist allocated as if the person registering the ATV was a resident of the municipality in which the post, station or base is situated.

12. New law in 2021: Review of ATV registration fees and trail maintenance needs. In consultation with the Department of Agronomics, Conservation and Forestry, the section shall review ATV registration fees and maintenance needs of designated country-approved ATV trails in 2022 and 2023 and every two years thereafter. Th Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall written report the findings and recommendations from the review to the joint standing commission of the Legislature having jurisdiction over inland fisheries and wildlife matters by February 1st each year a review is required. The commission may report out legislation related to ATV registration fees and maintenance needs of ATV trails to the session of the Legislature in which the report is received.

§13157-A – Functioning of ATVs.

ane-A. Updated law in 2021: Permission required. A person may not operate an ATV on the land of another without the permission of the landowner or lessee. Permission is presumed on designated state-approved ATV trails or in areas open to ATVs past landowner policy. A landowner or lessee may limit the use of a designated state-approved ATV trail on that landowner'southward or lessee's property through agreements with the State or an ATV guild to address environmental, public rubber or management concerns, including by limiting the type, size and weight of ATVs permitted on the landowner's or lessee's property. A person operating an ATV, including an oversized ATV, on designated country-approved ATV trails shall adhere to limitations imposed by a landowner or lessee and the Country on that part of the designated country-approved ATV trail on the landowner's or lessee'south belongings in accordance with this subsection. Written permission of the landowner or lessee is required for use of an ATV on cropland or pasture land or in an orchard. As used in this subsection, "cropland" ways acreage in cultivation rotation, country being cropped and country in bush-league fruits and "pasture state" means acreage devoted to the production of fodder plants used for animate being production. For purposes of this subsection, "oversized ATV" has the aforementioned pregnant as defined in department 13155, subsection 5-B. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to limit or aggrandize a landowner's or lessee's property rights.

2. End and place requirement. Persons operating ATVs upon the land of another shall terminate and identify themselves upon the request of the landowner or the landowner'due south duly authorized representative.

3. Operating ATV upon controlled access highway. The post-obit provisions govern the operation of ATVs on controlled access highways.

A. A person may non operate an ATV upon a controlled access highway or within the correct-of-way limits of a controlled access highway, except that:

(1) A person on a properly registered ATV may cross controlled access highways by use of bridges over or roads under those highways or by use of roads crossing controlled access highways at grade;

(two) The Commissioner of Transportation may issue special permits for designated crossings of controlled admission highways.

(3) A person on a properly registered ATV may operate the ATV within the correct-of-style limits of a controlled access highway on a trail segment approved by the Commissioner of Transportation or the board of directors of the Maine Turnpike Authority, every bit applicable. At the asking of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, the Commissioner of Transportation or the board of directors of the Maine Turnpike Authority, equally applicative, may permit structure of an ATV trail inside the right-of-way of a controlled access highway under the jurisdiction of the Section of Transportation or the Maine Turnpike Authority beingness constructed on or later on Jan 2, 2016 when there is an power to provide for the continuity of a state-owned or country controlled network of ATV trails. Funds for the construction of an ATV trail under this paragraph may not be provided from the Highway Fund.

4. Unlawfully operating ATV on snowmobile trail. A person may not operate any iv-wheel-drive vehicle, dune buggy, all-terrain vehicle, motorcycle or any other motor vehicle, other than a snowmobile and appurtenant equipment, on snowmobile trails that are financed in whole or in function with funds from the Snowmobile Trail Fund, unless that use has been authorized past the landowner or the landowner's amanuensis, or unless the use is necessitated past an emergency involving condom of persons or belongings.

Exception: ATV's with tracks, registered equally snowmobiles can be operated on a snowmobile trail.

v. Repealed.

5-A. Operating a motor vehicle on an ATV trail. A person may not operate a truck, pickup truck, or passenger vehicle on a designated ATV trail that is non on a gravel road system unless authorized by the landowner or landowner's agent, or in an emergency involving the safety of a person or holding. For purposes of this law, "pickup truck" and "truck" have the same meaning as in Championship 29-A section 101, subsections 55 and 88 and "passenger vehicle" means a self-propelled 4-wheel motor vehicle designed primarily to carry passengers on public roads.

half dozen. Operating ATV on public style. Except as provided in this subsection, a person may not operate an ATV, other than an ATV registered with the Secretary of Land under Title 29-A, on whatever portion of a public fashion maintained or used for the operation of conventional motor vehicles or on the sidewalks of whatsoever public way.

A. A properly registered ATV may exist operated on a public way only the distance necessary, but in no case to exceed 500 yards, on the extreme right of the traveled mode for the purpose of crossing, every bit directly as possible, a public way, bridge, overpass, underpass, sidewalk or culvert as long as that operation can be made safely and does not interfere with traffic approaching from either direction on the public manner.

B. Repealed.

C. An ATV may be operated on any portion of a public fashion when the public way has been closed in accordance with Title 23, department 2953.

D. An ATV may be operated on a public way that is not maintained or used for the operation of conventional motor vehicles, except that operation on the left side of the way is prohibited prohibited during the hours from dusk to sunrise.

Eastward. An ATV may be operated on streets and public ways during a period of emergency when the emergency has been so declared past a police agency having jurisdiction and when travel by conventional motor vehicles is not practicable.

F. An ATV may be operated on streets and public means in special events of limited duration conducted according to a prearranged schedule under a permit from the governmental unit having jurisdiction. G. An ATV may be operated on a public mode on the extreme correct of the traveled mode by a police enforcement officer for the sole purpose of traveling between the place where the ATV is usually stored and an surface area to be patrolled by the police enforcement officer.

Yard. An ATV may exist operated on a public manner on the extreme right of the traveled fashion past a law enforcement officer for the sole purpose of traveling between the identify where the ATV is commonly stored and an area to exist patrolled by the law enforcement officer.

H. Notwithstanding paragraphs A to G, an ATV may be operated on the extreme right of a public fashion, or as directed by the appropriate governmental unit within the public way, of a municipality or an unorganized or unincorporated township if the appropriate governmental unit has designated the public way equally an ATV-access route. An ATV must travel in the aforementioned direction as motor vehicle traffic on a public style designated as an ATV admission route. A public way designated past an appropriate governmental unit as an ATV-access road must be posted clearly at regular intervals past that governmental unit with highly visible signs designating the ATV-access route. Before designating a public way as an ATV-access road, the appropriate governmental unit of measurement shall brand appropriate determinations that ATV travel on the extreme right of the public style, or as directed by the appropriate governmental unit inside the public way may be conducted safely and will not interfere with vehicular traffic on the public fashion. For purposes of this paragraph, "appropriate governmental unit" means the Section of Transportation, county commissioners or municipal officers inside their respective jurisdictions. The jurisdiction of each advisable governmental unit of measurement over public ways pursuant to this paragraph is the same as its jurisdiction over the passage of vehicles on public ways pursuant to Championship 29-A, department 2395. Municipal or county law enforcement officials having jurisdiction have principal enforcement authority over any road established under this paragraph.

vii. Failing to stop ATV before entering public style. A person shall bring an ATV to a consummate end before entering a public mode.

8. Failing to yield right-of-way while operating ATV. A person shall yield the right-of-mode to all other types of vehicular traffic while operating an ATV on a public style.

nine. Crossing closed span, culvert, overpass or underpass with ATV. A person may non cross with an ATV a bridge, culvert, overpass or underpass closed to ATVs past the Commissioner of Transportation pursuant to this subsection. The Commissioner of Transportation may, following a public hearing, prohibit the crossing by an ATV of an individual bridge, culvert, overpass or underpass if the commissioner determines that that crossing or use of a public fashion is chancy. Whatsoever bridge, culvert, overpass or underpass closed by the commissioner must be posted by appropriate notices.

10. Reckless operating on ATV. A person may non operate an ATV in such a way every bit to recklessly create a substantial gamble of serious actual injury to another person.

eleven. Operating ATV to endanger. A person may not operate an ATV and then every bit to endanger whatsoever person or property.

12. Operating ATV at greater than reasonable and prudent speed. A person may not operate an ATV except at a reasonable and prudent speed for the existing weather.

xiii. Operating ATV without protective headgear. A person under 18 years of age may not operate an ATV without protective headgear.

14. Carrying passenger on ATV without headgear. A person may not carry a passenger under eighteen years of historic period on an ATV unless the passenger is wearing protective headgear.

15. Repealed.

16. ATV headlight and taillight requirements. This subsection establishes lite equipment requirements for the operation of an ATV.

A. Except as provided in this subsection and section 13159, a person may not operate an ATV in the State, regardless of where purchased, unless equipped with front and rear lights every bit follows.

(1) The ATV must take mounted on the front end at least one headlight capable of casting a white beam for a distance of at least 100 feet directly ahead of the ATV.

(2) The ATV must have mounted on the rear at least one taillight capable of displaying a lite that must be visible at a distance of at least 100 feet behind the ATV.

B. The post-obit are exceptions to the requirements of paragraph A.

(one) Repealed.

(2) A person may operate an ATV including a ii-wheel off-route motorcycle without a headlight and taillight between sunrise and sunset.

17. Required use of ATV lights. Except as provided in section 13159, the post-obit provisions govern the use of ATV lights.

A. A person shall use the lights required nether subsection 16 equally follows:

(1) During the period from ½ 60 minutes after dusk to ½ hour before sunrise; and

(ii) At whatever time when, due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions caused by fog or otherwise, other persons, vehicles and other objects are non clearly discernible for a distance of 500 feet ahead.

xviii. Unlawfully operating ATV on railroad tracks. This subsection governs functioning of an ATV on railroad tracks.

A. A person may not:

(ane) Operate an ATV forth or adjacent and parallel to the tracks of a railroad within the limits of the railroad right-of-way without written permission from the railroad owning the right-of- way; or

(ii) Operate an ATV across the tracks of a railroad later on having been forbidden to do so by the railroad owning the railroad right-of- style or by an agent of that railroad, either personally or by appropriate notices posted conspicuously along the railroad right-of-way.

B. However paragraph A, a person may operate inside the right-of-way of a portion of railroad line that has been officially abandoned under the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

nineteen. Operating also close to certain buildings. person may non operate an ATV within 200 feet of a dwelling, hospital, nursing home, ambulatory dwelling, or church.

A. This subsection does non apply when a person is operating an ATV on:

(1) Public means in accordance with subsections 6 and nine or on controlled access highways in accordance with subsection iii, paragraph A;

(ii) The frozen surface of any body of water; or

(3) Land that the operator owns or is permitted to apply.

twenty. Repealed.

21. Repealed.

22. Abuse of another person'southward holding. A person may not while operating an ATV:

A. Tear downward or destroy a debate or wall on some other person's land;

B. Leave open up a gate or confined on another person'south land;

C. Bruise or destroy crops on another person'south land; or

D. Remove or destroy signs or posted notices.

23. Repealed.

24. Operation of ATV on temporarily closed trail. A person may not operate an ATV on any section of a trail posted with a notice of temporary closure in accordance with this subsection. The notice must specify the department of trail that is closed and the period of the closure and must exist conspicuously posted at each end of the airtight department of the trail.

25. ATV noise and fire command devices. The following provisions pertain to ATV muffling and fire command devices and dissonance level limits.

A. Except every bit provided in section 13159, a person may not:

(1) Operate an ATV that is not equipped at all times with an effective and suitable muffling device on its engine to effectively deaden or muffle the noise of the frazzle;

(2) Operate or modify an ATV with an frazzle organization that has been modified in any manner that volition increment the dissonance emitted to a higher place the following emission standard:

(a) Each ATV must come across noise emission standards of the The states Environmental Protection Agency and in no example exceed 96 decibels of sound pressure when measured from a distance of xx inches using exam procedures established by the commissioner; or

(3) Operate an ATV without a working spark arrester.

B. In improver to any penalties imposed under this subsection, the courtroom may, bailiwick to department 9321 and Championship 17-A, chapter 54, order restitution for burn down suppression costs incurred past state or municipal government entities in suppressing a fire caused by an ATV operating without a working spark arrester.

26. Prohibited equipment. A person may non operate an ATV that is equipped with a snorkel kit or other equipment designed to permit the ATV to exist used in deep h2o except with the permission of the owner of the land on which the ATV is operated or as provided in section 13159.

27. Performance of ATV in prohibited surface area. The post-obit provisions constitute areas where the operation of an ATV is prohibited.

A. A person may not operate an ATV:

(1) On a salt marsh, intertidal zone, marine sand beach, sand dune or any cemetery, burial place or burying ground; or

(2) When the ground is not frozen and sufficiently covered with snow to forbid straight harm to the vegetation:

(a) On tall tundra;

(b) On a freshwater marsh or bog, river, beck, stream, nifty swimming, nonforested wetland or vernal pool; or

(c) In a source water protection surface area as defined in Title 30-A, department 2001, subsection 20-A. The provisions of this subparagraph do non apply to a trail designated for ATV use by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The provisions of this subparagraph as well do not apply to a person accessing land for maintenance or inspection purposes with the landowner's permission or to local, state, or federal authorities personnel in the performance of official duties, provided at that place is no significant ground disturbance or sedimentation of h2o bodies.

§13158-A – Unlawfully permitting operation; liability for impairment past other persons.

one. ATV owner; operation by some other. A person is in violation of this subsection if that person is the owner of an ATV that is operated in violation of this chapter.

2. Parent or guardian; operation by minor. A person is in violation of this subsection if that person is a parent or guardian responsible for the care of a pocket-size under eighteen years of age who is operating an ATV in violation of this chapter.

3. Furnishing ATV. An possessor of an ATV, a person who gives or furnishes an ATV to a person and a parent or guardian responsible for the care of a minor nether 18 years of age are jointly and severally liable with the operator for damages acquired in the operation of the vehicle or by the modest in operating any ATV.

§13159 – Racing meets.

Nevertheless section 13155 and department 13157-A, subsection 16, paragraph A, subsection 17, and subsection 25 ATVs used exclusively for scheduled racing meets and operated solely on predefined race, courses are exempt from the provisions of this chapter concerning registration, mufflers, snorkel kits, and lights during the time of performance at these meets and at all prerace practices at the location of the meets.

§13160 – Dealer's registration and license.

i. Application and issuance. A person may not appoint in the business of selling ATVs in the State unless that person has registered as a dealer and secured a valid dealer's license from the commissioner. A dealer so registered and licensed need non register individual ATVs.

two. Fees. The annual license fee for a dealer registered under subsection 1 is $xv. The license runs from July 1st of each twelvemonth.

A. A dealer licensed under Title 29-A, section 954, subsection 2 is not required to pay the license fee under this subsection.

3. Dealer'due south number plates. Dealer'south number plates must be provided and obtained as follows.

A. A dealer registered under subsection 1 may receive dealer's number plates for a $5 annual fee for each plate

B. Replacements for lost or stolen plates may be obtained for a fee of $5 for each plate.

C. If a number plate is lost or stolen, the owner shall notify the commissioner immediately.

four. Temporary registration certificate. The commissioner may consequence temporary registration certificates to a registered dealer who may, upon the sale or exchange of an ATV, issue a temporary registration certificate to a new owner, in order to allow the new possessor to operate the ATV for a period of 20 consecutive days, after the appointment of sale in lieu of a permanent number as required by this affiliate. The fee for each temporary registration is $1.

5. Display of dealer's number plate. A dealer shall brandish the dealer'due south number on each ATV existence used until the auction of the ATV, whereupon it becomes the owner'due south responsibility to register the ATV.

6. Warranties and information on used ATVs. A dealer who offers a warranty in connection with the sale or transfer of a used ATV shall furnish a written statement concerning that warranty. The argument regarding the warranty must indicate the parts or systems of the vehicle that are covered and those not covered by the warranty and what the dealer will do in the outcome of a defect and at whose expense repairs be made. The dealer shall also replenish before sale a written statement identifying whatsoever and all defects known to the dealer and whatever blazon of impairment that the vehicle has sustained if such data is known to the dealer.

§13161 – Sale of ATV; light equipment.

1. Headlight and taillight required. A person may not sell or offer to sell a new ATV unless:

A. That ATV is equipped with a functioning headlight and taillight; or

B. The ATV:

(1) Is a ii-cycle off-road motorcycle; or

(2) Has an engine size of 90 cubic centimeters or less and has iv or more wheels.

1-A. New law in 2021: Dealer to provide registration information. A dealer may not sell a new or used oversized ATV without providing to the purchaser a written form developed and provided by the department explaining the size and weight restrictions for registering that ATV under department 13155, subsection 5-B and the provisions of section 13157-A regarding the use of oversized ATVs on designated state-approved ATV trails. Thursday department shall develop a form for apply by dealers under this section, which must include a place for a purchaser to sign acknowledging receipt of the class. For purposes of this subsection, "oversized ATV" has the same pregnant as defined in department 13155, subsection 5-B.

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Summary of Penalties for ATV

This is a summary of penalties for ATV. For full linguistic communication delight refer to Title 12.

Operating under the influence.

§10651, one-D – Failure to end for a law enforcement officer

A person may not fail or refuse to end any ATV on request or signal of any law enforcement officer in compatible whose duty it is to enforce ATV laws. A person who violates this provision commits a Grade D crime, for which a minimum fine of not less than $1,000 must be adjudged. If convicted there is a mandatory ane year break of all licenses, permits and registrations by the department.

§10651, i-Due east – Attempt to elude a law enforcement officeholder

A person may not attempt to elude a police enforcement officeholder by: operating or attempting to operate an all-terrain vehicle by a clearly identifiable law roadblock; or after being requested or signaled to stop past a law enforcement officer in uniform, operating or attempting to operate an all-terrain vehicle at a reckless rate of speed. A person who violates this provision commits a Class D crime, for which a minimum fine of not less than $1,000 must be adjudged. If convicted in that location is a mandatory 1 year suspension of all licenses, permits and registrations by the department.

§13157-A, 10 – Reckless operating on ATV

A person may not operate an ATV in such a style as to recklessly create a substantial chance of serious bodily injury to some other person. A person who violates this provision commits a Class D criminal offense. If convicted there is a mandatory one year interruption of all licenses, permits and registrations past the department.

§13157-A, 11 – Operating ATV to endanger

A person may not operate an ATV so as to endanger whatsoever person or property. A person who violates this provision commits a Class E crime. If convicted there is a mandatory i year suspension of all licenses, permits and registrations by the department.

§13157-A, 12 – Operating ATV at greater than reasonable and prudent speed

A person may not operate an ATV except at a reasonable and prudent speed for the existing conditions. A person who violates this provision commits a Class East law-breaking.

§13157-A, 22 – Abuse of some other person'due south belongings

A person may not while operating an ATV:

• Tear down or destroy a fence or wall on another person's state;
• Exit open up a gate or bars on another person's land;
• Bruise or destroy crops on another person's state; or
• Remove or destroy signs or posted notices. A person who violates this subsection commits a Grade E law-breaking. If convicted there is a mandatory i twelvemonth suspension of all licenses, permits and registrations by the department.

§10902, i – Interruption or revocation of, or refusal to issue a license or let

Any conviction or adjudication for a violation of this Part is grounds for break of any license or permit issued under this Function. Except where provided by police force, the commissioner shall make up one's mind the suspension period. To append a license or permit based upon a conviction or adjudication, the commissioner shall follow the procedures under section 10903.

§10902, 9 – Discretionary suspension for certain ATV violations; training

The commissioner may suspend all licenses, permits and registrations issued by the department pursuant to this Office to any person convicted or adjudicated of:

• Operating an ATV on a temporarily closed trail or
• Operating an ATV on the land of another without permission.

If the commissioner suspends a license, permit or registration pursuant to this subsection, the suspension must be for at to the lowest degree xc days. Before reinstatement of licenses and permits, a person must satisfactorily complete a safe and ethics form, approved past the department and related to the operation of ATVs.

§10902, 10 – Mandatory suspension for certain ATV violations

The commissioner shall suspend for at least 1 year all licenses, permits and registrations issued past the department pursuant to this Part to whatsoever person convicted or adjudicated of:

• Corruption of another person's property.
• Operating an ATV under the influence.
• Operating an ATV to endanger.
• Reckless operation of an ATV.
• Failure or refusal to cease an ATV or attempting to elude an officer.

Before reinstatement of licenses and permits, a person must satisfactorily complete a prophylactic and ethics class, canonical past the department and related to the operation of ATVs.

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