23.3.121    ROAD SIGNS AND ROAD RULES

(1)In order to be

licensed, an applicant must be able to:

(a) ascertain the meaning of standard warning and regulatory signs and understand what the driver should do upon approaching them; and

(b) successfully answer questions on highway laws and regulations, either orally or written.

(2) Illiterates must be examined orally by having the examiner state the questions on the Road Rules Test, and by having the applicant identify the signs on the Sign Test.

(3) Applicants who are observed cheating on the examination must immediately be disqualified on that portion of the examination.

(4) The maximum score for each written test is 100%. For each incorrectly marked answer, the following points must be deducted:

(a) Operator Rules: 5 points (minimum passing score 75) ;

(b) Chauffeur Rules: 3.3 points (minimum passing score 76.9) ; and

(c) Signs: 10 points (minimum passing score 80) .

(d) Combined Operator/Signs Test: 7 or less wrong is passing score.

History: Sec. 44-1-103 MCA; IMP, 61-5-101 et seq. MCA; Eff. 12/31/72; AMD, Eff. 12/5/76; AMD, 1983 MAR p. 853, Eff 7/15/83.