The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
001
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
(Cite as: 23 V.S.A. § 1001)
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§ 1001. Rules
(a) The Commissioner may adopt rules:
(1) relating to motor vehicle equipment in all cases where its use is not defined in this
title and whenever the use or nonuse, contrary to the rules, in the judgment of the
Commissioner, may render the operation of the motor vehicle hazardous or unlawful;
(2) restricting or prohibiting the use of pictures, advertising matter, or other thing
placed on or over any transparent part of a motor vehicle;
(3) relating to any other matter or thing that, in the Commissioner’s judgment, may hinder
or impede the operator in the safe and careful operation of a motor vehicle; and
(4) in explanation of and in addition to, but not inconsistent with, the provisions of
this title concerning any matter or thing that, in the Commissioner’s judgment, may
render the operation of motor vehicles safer and lessen motor vehicle crashes and
resulting injuries or fatalities.
(b) The Commissioner may adopt rules uniform with the regulations of the federal agency
having jurisdiction over motor vehicles subject to federal law so far as the rules
are applicable to the vehicles or to vehicles of the same type not subject to federal
law, or to both.
(c) The Commissioner shall adopt rules under this section only in accordance with 3 V.S.A. chapter 25. (Added 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 1, 1973; amended 1975, No. 211 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; 2019, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 172; 2023, No. 85 (Adj. Sess.), § 283, eff. July 1, 2024; 2025, No. 18, § 42, eff. May 13, 2025.)