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2010 Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 257 - MOTOR VEHICLES
Act 300 of 1949 - MICHIGAN VEHICLE CODE (257.1 - 257.923)
300-1949-VI - CHAPTER VI OBEDIENCE TO AND EFFECT OF TRAFFIC LAWS (257.601...257.750)
- Section 257.601 - Applicability of chapter to operations on highways; exceptions.
- Section 257.601a - Private road open to general public; contract.
- Section 257.601b - Moving violation in work zone, emergency scene, or school zone; penalties; exceptions; definitions.
- Section 257.601c - Moving violation causing injury or death to person operating implement of husbandry on highway.
- Section 257.601d.added - Person who commits moving violation causing death of another person or serious impairment of body function; other violations; "moving violation" defined.
- Section 257.602 - Compliance with order or direction of police officer.
- Section 257.602a - Failure to stop at signal of police or conservation officer; penalty; subsection (1) inapplicable unless officer in uniform and vehicle identified; violation of subsection (1) as felony; conviction for conduct arising out of same transaction; “serious injury” defined.
- Section 257.602b - Reading, typing, or sending text message on wireless 2-way communication device prohibited; exceptions; violation as civil infraction; fine; local ordinances superseded.
- Section 257.603 - Applicability of chapter to government vehicles; exemption of authorized emergency vehicles; conditions; exemption of police vehicles not sounding audible signal; exemption of persons, vehicles, and equipment working on surface of highway.
- Section 257.604 - Riding animal or driving animal-drawn vehicle on roadway; rights and duties.
- Section 257.605 - Applicability and uniformity of provisions; local laws and regulations; payment and allocation of civil fines; issuance of more than 1 citation; equipment violations; definitions.
- Section 257.606 - Regulation of streets or highways under jurisdiction of local authority and within reasonable exercise of police power; stop sign or traffic control device requiring state trunk line highway traffic to stop; approval; posting signs giving notice of local traffic regulations; providing by ordinance for impounding of motor vehicle parked contrary to local ordinance; bond or cash deposit.
- Section 257.606a - Maintenance of highway by state or local government; duty; immunity from tort liability; exception.
- Section 257.607 - Realty owners' regulation of traffic on private property.
- 300-1949-VI-TRAFFIC-SIGNS-SIGNALS-AND-MARKINGS - TRAFFIC SIGNS, SIGNALS, AND MARKINGS (257.608...257.616a)
- 300-1949-VI-ACCIDENTS - ACCIDENTS (257.617...257.624b)
- 300-1949-VI-DRIVING-WHILE-INTOXICATED-AND-RECKLESS-DRIVING - DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED, AND RECKLESS DRIVING (257.625...257.626c)
- 300-1949-VI-SPEED-RESTRICTIONS - SPEED RESTRICTIONS (257.627...257.633)
- 300-1949-VI-DRIVING-ON-RIGHT-SIDE-OF-ROADWAY—OVERTAKING-AND-PASSING-ETC. - DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY—OVERTAKING AND PASSING, ETC. (257.634...257.646)
- 300-1949-VI-TURNING-AND-STARTING-AND-SIGNALS-ON-STOPPING-AND-TURNING - TURNING AND STARTING AND SIGNALS ON STOPPING AND TURNING (257.647...257.648)
- 300-1949-VI-RIGHT-OF-WAY - RIGHT-OF-WAY (257.649...257.655)
- 300-1949-VI-OPERATION-OF-BICYCLES-MOTORCYCLES-AND-TOY-VEHICLES - OPERATION OF BICYCLES, MOTORCYCLES AND TOY VEHICLES (257.656...257.662)
- 300-1949-VI-STREET-CARS-AND-SAFETY-ZONES - STREET CARS AND SAFETY ZONES (257.663...257.666)
- 300-1949-VI-SPECIAL-STOPS-REQUIRED - SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED (257.667...257.671)
- 300-1949-VI-STOPPING-STANDING-AND-PARKING - STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING (257.672...257.675d)
- 300-1949-VI-MISCELLANEOUS-RULES - MISCELLANEOUS RULES (257.676...257.682b)
- 300-1949-VI-EQUIPMENT - EQUIPMENT (257.683... 257.714b)
- 300-1949-VI-INSPECTION-OF-VEHICLES - INSPECTION OF VEHICLES (257.715...257.715a)
- 300-1949-VI-SIZE-WEIGHT-AND-LOAD - SIZE, WEIGHT AND LOAD (257.716...257.750)
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