{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-159a-2","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 159A, § 2","heading":"Licenses; specification of routes; form; detours","body":"Section 2. Every such license shall specify the route or routes over which the motor vehicles used thereunder may be operated, and shall be on a form approved by the department of telecommunications and energy; provided, that a variance from a form so approved shall not affect the validity of the license if the form used is in substantial conformity with the approved form. A licensee shall not operate motor vehicles for the purposes specified in section one otherwise than upon routes specified in the license or licenses issued to him; provided, that in the event of the closing of the whole or a portion of such a route by public authority or of interference with operation thereon by street repairs, fire, accident, unusual and severe traffic congestion or other emergency, a licensee may temporarily operate such vehicles by a reasonably direct and convenient detour.","path":["Part I","Title XXII","Chapter 159A"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXII/Chapter159A/Section2","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:23:45Z","sha256":"796ba79e1cd222f7bd9e0f2390f7d569d2721253ee7e210957d0758b2e294b76","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-159a-1","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-159a-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}