MPTC Motor Vehicle Investigations Test Exam
SCRIPT 2026/2027 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
RATED A+
• Patrol Car Postioning -✓✓ position the patrol car to protect scene, passing motorists,
and first responders, use emergency lights to warn approaching drivers
• Person in charge while on scene during emergency care for a crash -✓✓ highest
ranking FIREFIGHTER
• Chapter 85 -✓✓ Regulations for ways
• Chapter 89 -✓✓ Laws of the road: turning, passing, lane usage, right of way, failure to
stop
• Chapter 90 -✓✓ Motor Vehicles, includes leaving the scene of a crash, OUI
• Two Types of Motor Vehicle violations -✓✓ 1. CMVI: minor infractions, with no
provision for arrest of imprisonment. 2. Criminal Violation: more serious, arrest or
imprisonment
• USASIR model for warrantless arrest in presence -✓✓ (U)nlicensed operation,
operating (S)uspended license, use without (A)uthority, leaving the (S)cene, operating
under (I)nfluence, (R)efusal to submit.
• Three key elements for MV law -✓✓ motor vehicle, operation, public way, public
access, or in rare occasion private way
• Motor Vehicle definition -✓✓ all vehicles constructed for propulsion, by power rather
than muscular power eg. cars, trucks, motorcycles, atvs, snowmobiles
• operation -✓✓ a person is operating whenever they are inside the vehicle and
intentionally manipulate some mechanical or electrical part of the vehicle, which alone
or in sequence will set the vehicle in motion
• Public Way -✓✓ any street or highway open to the public and maintained by some sort
of government including mass highways, municipal streets and roads
• Public access -✓✓ all non ways in which the public has access and regularly drives
motor vehicles upon or public access by request eg parking lots, public parks
• Statute of limitations for most MV violations -✓✓ 6 years
SCRIPT 2026/2027 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
RATED A+
• Patrol Car Postioning -✓✓ position the patrol car to protect scene, passing motorists,
and first responders, use emergency lights to warn approaching drivers
• Person in charge while on scene during emergency care for a crash -✓✓ highest
ranking FIREFIGHTER
• Chapter 85 -✓✓ Regulations for ways
• Chapter 89 -✓✓ Laws of the road: turning, passing, lane usage, right of way, failure to
stop
• Chapter 90 -✓✓ Motor Vehicles, includes leaving the scene of a crash, OUI
• Two Types of Motor Vehicle violations -✓✓ 1. CMVI: minor infractions, with no
provision for arrest of imprisonment. 2. Criminal Violation: more serious, arrest or
imprisonment
• USASIR model for warrantless arrest in presence -✓✓ (U)nlicensed operation,
operating (S)uspended license, use without (A)uthority, leaving the (S)cene, operating
under (I)nfluence, (R)efusal to submit.
• Three key elements for MV law -✓✓ motor vehicle, operation, public way, public
access, or in rare occasion private way
• Motor Vehicle definition -✓✓ all vehicles constructed for propulsion, by power rather
than muscular power eg. cars, trucks, motorcycles, atvs, snowmobiles
• operation -✓✓ a person is operating whenever they are inside the vehicle and
intentionally manipulate some mechanical or electrical part of the vehicle, which alone
or in sequence will set the vehicle in motion
• Public Way -✓✓ any street or highway open to the public and maintained by some sort
of government including mass highways, municipal streets and roads
• Public access -✓✓ all non ways in which the public has access and regularly drives
motor vehicles upon or public access by request eg parking lots, public parks
• Statute of limitations for most MV violations -✓✓ 6 years
