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declared by 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 ways 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 way on the extreme
right of the traveled way by a law enforcement officer for
the sole purpose of traveling between the place where the
ATV is usually stored and an area to be patrolled by the law
enforcement officer.

 
H.__Notwithstanding paragraphs A to G, an ATV may be
operated on the extreme right of a public way of a
municipality or an unorganized or unincorporated township if
the appropriate governmental unit has designated the public
way as an ATV-access route.__A public way designated by an
appropriate governmental unit as an ATV-access route must be
posted conspicuously at regular intervals by that
governmental unit with highly visible signs designating the
ATV-access route.__Before designating a public way as an
ATV-access route, the appropriate governmental unit shall
make appropriate determinations that ATV travel on the
extreme right of the public way may be conducted safely and
will not interfere with vehicular traffic on the public way.__
For purposes of this paragraph, "appropriate governmental
unit" means the Department of Transportation, county
commissioners or municipal officers within their respective
jurisdictions.__The jurisdiction of each appropriate
governmental unit over public ways pursuant to this
paragraph is the same as its jurisdiction over the passage
of vehicles on public ways pursuant to Title 29-A, section
2395.__Municipal or county law enforcement officials having
jurisdiction have primary enforcement authority over any
route established under this paragraph.

 
I.__The following penalties apply to violations of this
subsection.

 
(1)__A person who violates this subsection commits a
civil violation for which a fine of not less than $100
nor more than $500 may be adjudged.

 
(2)__A person who violates this subsection after having
been adjudicated as having committed 3 or more civil
violations under this Part within the previous 5-year
period commits a Class E crime.


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