{"data":{"id":"us-mt/61-2-101","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"61-2-101","heading":"Purpose.","body":"To promote public safety, health, and welfare and to reduce traffic deaths, injuries, and property losses resulting from traffic accidents, it is in the public interest to establish a highway traffic safety program and provide for its administration. It is in the public interest to implement, modernize, and improve the following traffic safety activities: driver performance, including but not limited to driver education, driver testing to determine proficiency to operate motor vehicles; driver examinations, both physical and mental; driver licensing; pedestrian performance; establish an effective accident record system, including traffic accident investigation to determine the probable cause of accidents, injuries, and deaths; improve and establish a system of vehicle registration, vehicle operation, and vehicle inspection; assist in the improving of highway design and maintenance, including lighting, markings, and surface treatment to improve safety; establish an effective traffic control system; promote the adoption of uniform vehicle laws; provide for surveillance of traffic for detection and correction of high or potentially high accident locations; establish emergency services, including but not limited to communications, medical or mechanical assistance, and ambulance service for injured persons; and establish an effective compilation and storage program of reports and records through electronic data processing.","path":["TITLE 61. MOTOR VEHICLES","CHAPTER 2. HIGHWAY SAFETY","Part 1. Traffic Safety Program"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0020/part_0010/section_0010/0610-0020-0010-0010.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:57:41Z","sha256":"4ca0167b9da5f5f120a4038ad8bc1424124167fcf6a799f5596cd552b2d95ead","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/61-1-604","next":"us-mt/61-2-102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}