HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4104        FILED ON: 3/20/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4029

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to cell phone use and text messaging by junior operators..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 8 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the fifth paragraph the following 2 paragraphs:-

No persons holding a junior operator’s license shall operate a motor vehicle while using any type of cellular telephone to engage in a call.

No person holding a junior operator’s license shall write a text message or use 2 hands to type or operate an electronic or telecommunication device while operating a motor vehicle.