{"data":{"id":"us-mt/61-2-202","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"61-2-202","heading":"Legislative findings on equipment safety.","body":"The legislature finds that:\n(1) the public safety necessitates the continuous development, modernization, and implementation of standards and requirements of law relating to vehicle equipment, in accordance with expert knowledge and opinion;\n(2) the public safety further requires that such standards and requirements be uniform from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, except to the extent that specific and compelling evidence supports variation;\n(3) the department, acting upon recommendations of the vehicle equipment safety commission and pursuant to the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact, provides a just, equitable, and orderly means of promoting the public safety in the manner and within the scope contemplated by this part.","path":["TITLE 61. MOTOR VEHICLES","CHAPTER 2. HIGHWAY SAFETY","Part 2. Vehicle Equipment Safety"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0610/chapter_0020/part_0020/section_0020/0610-0020-0020-0020.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:57:41Z","sha256":"550eb23b56761806f04e287f496701288a738fbf354aca6eed7100484750a141","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/61-2-201","next":"us-mt/61-2-203"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}