Motor Vehicle Code

The Motor Vehicle Code is a comprehensive act governing motor vehicles and their operation, consolidating the rules that apply to vehicles, their equipment, and their use into a single organized body of law within the jurisdiction that adopts it. Its foundation is a detailed vocabulary of defined terms that gives consistent meaning to the vehicle and roadway concepts running through its substantive provisions, together with uniform methods for taking the measurements those provisions rely on. It also carries the customary structural machinery of a code — a formal citation name, a severability provision preserving the remainder if any part is held invalid, and savings clauses protecting rights, liabilities, and proceedings that arose under the law it displaces.

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