Safety Equipment

Safety Equipment. (a) Operators and passengers of a motorcycle, motor scooter, or moped, while being operated on any highway within the Commonwealth, shall wear securely fastened on their heads safety helmets of a type approved by the director. Motorcycles, motor scooters, or mopeds while being operated on any highway within the Commonwealth shall have foot pegs and hand holds for passengers of a type approved by the Commissioner. (b) Motor scooters or mopeds, offered for lease or rental to the public shall be required to display a red or orange flag or pennant of not less than one-hundred square inches affixed to a pole or other mast, such pole or mast being not less than four feet nor greater than five feet tall, and affixed to the frame of the motor scooter. No writing or other mark shall be permitted on the flag except that the owner or lessor of the motor scooter may place the name of the leasing company on the flag. Source: PL 3-61, § 1 (§ 549); amended by PL 15-29, § 8 (5703), modified. Commission Comment: With respect to the references to the “director” of the Department of Public Safety, see Executive Order 94-3 (effective August 23, 1994), reorganizing the executive branch, changing agency names and official titles, and effecting other changes, set forth in the Commission comment to 1 CMC § 2001. The Commission deleted figures that were mere repetitions of words in subsection (b) above pursuant the authority granted by 1 CMC § 3806(e).