421.1. No person may drive on a public highway a road vehicle exempted from registration or carrying a registration plate of the category prescribed by regulation, issued for road vehicles used exclusively on private land or roads and not intended to be driven on public highways.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the driver of such a vehicle, except a motorized scooter and a vehicle with metal caterpillar tracks other than an off-highway trail maintenance vehicle referred to in section 35 of the Act respecting off-highway vehicles (chapter V-1.2), is authorized to cross a public highway, other than a limited access highway, or to operate an off-highway vehicle on a public highway on the conditions set out in that Act.
1987, c. 94, s. 60; 1990, c. 83, s. 159; 1996, c. 56, s. 87; 1996, c. 60, s. 75; 2001, c. 21, s. 7.