---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 423.40"
title: "43"
number: "423.40"
heading: "Vehicles."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/423.40"
---

# §423.40. Vehicles.

- (a) When operating a vehicle on Reclamation lands and Reclamation projects, you must comply with applicable Federal, State, and local laws, and with posted restrictions and regulations. Operating any vehicle through, around, or beyond a restrictive sign, recognizable barricade, fence, or traffic control barricade, is prohibited.
- (b) You must not park a vehicle in violation of posted restrictions and regulations, or in a manner that would obstruct or impede normal or emergency traffic movement or the parking of other vehicles, create a safety hazard, or endanger any person, property, or natural feature. Vehicles so parked are subject to removal and impoundment at the owner's expense.
- (c) You must not operate any vehicle, or allow another person to operate a vehicle in your control, in a careless, negligent or reckless manner that would endanger any person, property, natural resource, or cultural resource.
- (d) In addition to the regulations in this part, the regulations governing off-road-vehicle use in [43 CFR part 420](/cfr/43/part420.md) apply.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 373a and 373b.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 75349, Dec. 11, 2008, unless otherwise noted.