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Maine Revised Statutes Title 29-A. Motor Vehicles § 2058. Through ways

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

1. Designation. The Department of Transportation may designate a state or state aid highway as a “through way.” The Department of Transportation, after notice, may revoke any such designation. Municipal officers may designate a way under their jurisdiction as a “through way.”

2. Signs. A through way designation is not effective until suitable warning signs or signals are erected.

3. Intersection. For the purpose of this section, a way joining a through way at an angle, whether or not crossing, is deemed to intersect the through way.

4. Other stop signs. The Department of Transportation or municipal officers may designate an intersection as a stop intersection and erect stop signs at one or more entrances.

5. Yield. The Department of Transportation or municipal officers may erect standard signs requiring operators to yield the right-of-way at certain intersections.

A. Yield signs may be designated where it is expedient to allow traffic to move through or into the intersection at a reasonable speed for existing conditions of traffic and visibility, yielding the right-of-way to vehicles or pedestrians approaching from either direction on the intersecting street.

B. A vehicle approaching on a through way so as to arrive at an intersection at approximately the same instant as a vehicle approaching on another way has the right-of-way.

6. Procedure. A through way designation pursuant to this section is exempt from the Maine Administrative Procedure Act.  1

1 See 5 M.R.S.A. § 8001.
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