§ 602 - Exceptions for farm tractors and highway equipment - Vermont Statutes

§ 602. Exceptions for farm tractors and highway equipment

(a) No person may operate a farm tractor or motorized highway building equipment upon a public highway without first procuring from the commissioner of motor vehicles a license to operate motor vehicles, except that a person may operate a farm tractor upon a public highway in going to and from different parts of the farm of the owner of the farm tractor without obtaining a license.

(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person operating a farm tractor upon the public highways in going to and from different parts of the farm of the owner of the farm tractor or a person operating motorized highway building equipment upon the public highways within a construction area under the provisions of this section is subject to sections 602, 602a, 674, 1007, 1071, 1091, 1094, 1095, 1125, 1126, 1127, and 1201-1210 of this title.

(c) A person operating a farm tractor upon the public highways, except when going to and from different parts of the farm of the owner of the farm tractor, or a person operating motorized highway building equipment upon the public highways outside a construction area, is, while so operating, subject to all of the provisions of this title. (Amended 1967, No. 361 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1971, No. 258 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. March 1, 1973; 2001, No. 139 (Adj. Sess.), § 7.)