{"id":254,"date":"2010-09-22T17:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2010-09-22T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:15:36","slug":"new-ma-texting-law-in-effect-september-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"New MA Texting Law in effect September 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 30, two new safe driving laws will take      affect in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Texting While      Driving will be illegal for all drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The penalties are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 1st offense-$100 assessment<br \/>\n&#8211; 2nd offense-$250 assessment<br \/>\n&#8211;      3rd or subsequent offense-$500 assessment<\/p>\n<p>Drivers cannot use any      mobile electronic device to write, send, or read an electronic message      including text messages, emails, instant messages, or accessing the      internet.<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Junior operators, those under the age of 18, will not      be able to use their phones <strong>at      all<\/strong>, not for texting or talking.<\/p>\n<p>The penalties for junior      operators are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 1st offense-180-day license suspension<br \/>\n&#8211; 2nd or      subsequent offense within 3 years-1 year license suspension<br \/>\n&#8211; $500      reinstatement fee<\/p>\n<p>More info: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.massdot.state.ma.us\/rmv\/SafeDrivingLawSummary.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massdot.state.ma.us\/rmv\/SafeDrivingLawSummary.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.massdot.state.ma.us\/rmv\/SafeDrivingLawSummary.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 30, two new safe driving laws will take affect in Massachusetts. 1 &#8211; Texting While Driving will be illegal for all drivers. The penalties are: &#8211; 1st offense-$100 assessment &#8211; 2nd offense-$250 assessment &#8211; 3rd or subsequent offense-$500 assessment Drivers cannot use any mobile electronic device to write, send, or read an electronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hilltopfarmshoa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}